The dangers of excessive psychological stress

2022-05-11

In today's life, the competition in urban life is very fierce, which often brings huge psychological pressure to white-collar workers in the workplace. People’s stress is everywhere and often bothers us. Psychological stress affects all aspects of people, and moderate psychological stress is beneficial to our progress and development. Excessive stress alone can do great harm to our body and mind. In psychology and medicine, it is mainly manifested as physical and mental tension, discomfort, anxiety and depression. So when we are under pressure, we must adjust in time. Let’s take a look at the dangers of psychological stress conferences together!

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1. Physiologically

Physiologically, excessive stress can affect the balance of the endocrine system, resulting in muscle tension, indigestion, increased heart rate and blood pressure, continuous sweating, and increased blood clots. Lead to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular coronary heart disease, decreased immunity, headache, anorexia are common manifestations. For women, short-term stress is prone to acne, irregular menstruation, etc., and long-term stress can also cause hirsutism and virilization in women; while men are prone to impotence and premature ejaculation. When emotions are out of control, it is easy to cause the imbalance of yin and yang in the body, the internal organs of the human body will be damaged, and a variety of emotional diseases such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression will appear.

2. Emotionally

Emotionally, under high-intensity stress for a long time, we often lose control of our emotions, such as inexplicable irritability, anxiety, anger, fear, low mood, and even depression. The persistence of these bad emotions can easily make people with poor psychological quality have a strong sense of depression. In addition, when physically and mentally exhausted, people will lose the courage to compete and the confidence to create a good job, resulting in inexplicable troubles and anger, complaints and sadness, and many even have thoughts of suicide or suicide!

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3. Cognitive

Cognitively, excessive stress is prone to memory loss, inattention, slow thinking, poor understanding, poor creativity, etc. Excessive long-term pressure causes us to deny ourselves, think that we are not good, lose the courage to compete, and reduce self-confidence. Or subconsciously think that you are incompetent and feel helpless. Worry, anxiety and other unpleasant situations often occur. Psychological pressure will often lead to insomnia, dreaminess, irritability symptoms.

4. Behavior

In terms of behavior, people who have been under too much pressure for a long time are easy to be indifferent to others, feel dissatisfied with life, easily conflict with others, and even close themselves. Some people are prone to vices such as smoking, drinking, and taking drugs. Under the control of emotions, impulsive behaviors such as self-harm and suicide are also prone to occur. They will constantly torture themselves, they will go to great lengths to shop, consume, overeat and drink alcohol, and other symptoms such as anorexia, loss of appetite, upset stomach, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting appear.

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This shows that there are many dangers of excessive stress. If you do not pay attention to adjustment, it may lead to the occurrence of mental diseases, which will affect the health of the human body, which is not conducive to work and life. So, when the pressure is too high, you can do things that can transfer the pressure, such as shouting out your stress, or going to a special vent room to relieve the stress by smashing the vented items. You can also go to a special psychological counseling, tell your stress to the counselor, vent your emotions, etc. In the face of pressure, we must actively adjust, minimize and avoid unnecessary high pressure states, and learn to deal with pressure scientifically!