Care with post-traumatic stress
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Nowadays we talk about the consequences of post-traumatic stress to such an extent that there are studies that have evidenced these conditions in population groups, professionals and groups of people who suffer from the same stressor and that has generated a global alarm where the World Health Organization has called to change our habits and patterns of behavior with respect to our lives to avoid or improve the serious effects of post-traumatic stress. You may ask, but why post-traumatic stress? How does it affect us? Well, let me tell you that a stressor is when people experience an illness for a long period of time either personally or indirectly by being in the care of a sick person. In the case of everyone worldwide we have the COVID-19 pandemic which has become a collective stressor.
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-Episodes of rage, irritability.
-Reckless and self-destructive behavior.
-Constant state of alertness that ends up wearing out the organism.
-Concentration problems also associated with lack of sleep.
-Detachment. People who have suffered traumatic events later manifest a detachment from everything, in this case nothing matters to them, even their own life.
-Incoordination and lack of concentration.
-Insomnia and hallucinations.
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Phase I. Alarm:
In this phase the organism reacts to the stressor stimulus and initiates the activation of the protective shield.
Phase II. Resistance:
The individual is subjected to the stressor for a long time and the organism has generated an adoption to that level of stress and will remain so.
Phase III. Exhaustion:
In this phase the organism deteriorates giving rise to diseases ranging from cardiovascular diseases to the development of cancer and tumors that kill people. In this phase, mental illnesses usually appear as well.
So my dear friends, let's be very careful with post-traumatic stress, because although I have mentioned COVID-19 as a collective stressor, there are other individual factors that also lead us to experience acute stress such as overwork, conflictive family, couple or friendship relationships, among others that when we are in that situation for a long time, end up with our health. We must pay attention to our health.
Thank you very much @emimoron for such valuable information, daily we talk about the negative effects of stress, of course I am not referring to post-traumatic stress, so knowing the delicate repercussions of it and how it is capable of seriously affecting our mental health, so These are elements that, as you explain well, must always be taken into account, especially to help all those who are going through this hard condition.
Greetings, have a beautiful day
Thank you very much for reading and commenting, you know that stress can become post traumatic when it is a stressor effect that is maintained in a prolonged way in our life in that case the phases of stress apply until our body wears out, this is a serious health problem.
Hi @emimoron
When you express "stress becomes a real and serious problem for our health when we experience the acute type of stress", I intuit that this acute stress you are referring to is the one where people tend to lose control of our emotions and therefore we are not able to find balance points.
Best regards, be well.
Hello friend, stress in itself is not a disease, even biologically stress is a response of our body that allows us to generate an alarm to a threat and at the same time adapt to a given situation. When stress becomes a problem that affects our health is when we experience the acute type of stress, this type is when we are in situations where the source of stress keeps us constantly in alarm, ie our body does not rest and comes to deteriorate. For example people who are in jobs that require of them a constant reaction to extreme circumstances and get used to the high levels of adrenaline in the blood to the point that their heart rate is always high therefore their heart rate and cardiac response causes their cardiovascular system to deteriorate by the constant effort. And if one of the symptoms of acute stress is manifested in people when they get out of control easily, react violently, have sleep and gastric disorders until reaching the phase of allusions.Even today there is talk of collective post-traumatic stress generated by the confinement of the pandemic, as well as in populations that have been vulnerable, such as health personnel. But we ordinary people can also suffer from post-traumatic stress, for example when we have gone through a situation such as the death of a loved one and we can not overcome the fact, for an accident that causes us a trauma in which our life changes and even a relationship that is traumatic that also leads us to acute stress. So take care of yourself and take everything calmly, what can be done will be done and what has to disappear from our life so be it. Let life flow my friend.