and the best of times.
They provide support to you and maintain the same
value system as you do. So the relationship blossoms and flourishes.
     Chapter       8.                                  Type      of     Stress
    There are three types of stress -Acute stress, Episodic Acute stress, and
Chronic stress -according to the American Psychological Association (APA).
Each of the three types of stress has its own features, symptoms, duration, and
treatments.
    Stress management can be difficult because every three different stress
forms can be single, repetitive, complicated, or chronic. They therefore,
require separate levels of treatment, management, and psychological
treatment due to the nature of the environment, lifestyle, development
histories, coping resources, and personality of the person.
    Acute Stress - This kind of stress is short-term and the most popular form
of stress. Acute stress is often triggered by worrying about the stresses of
events that have occurred recently or future demands. You might feel stressed
about these causes, for example, if you were recently involved in an argument
that caused disruption or if you have a forthcoming deadline. Nonetheless,
once these are overcome, the stress will be drastically reduced or removed. It
does not end up causing the same damage as chronic long-term stress. Short-
term effects include fatigue and sore stomach, along with mild pain.
Nevertheless, persistent acute stresses can become chronic and harmful for a
long time.
    Episodic Acute Stress - Those who often encounter acute stress or whose
lives often induce stress have episodic acute stress. A person with too many
undertakings and poor organization will experience episodic symptoms of
stress. These include a propensity to be irritable and anxious, which can
influence relationships. People who think too much on a constant basis can
also face this kind of stress. This form of stress can also cause hypertension
and heart disease.
    Chronic Stress - This is the most damaging and long-lasting form of
stress. Continued deprivation, dysfunctional families, or unsatisfactory
marriages may cause chronic stress. This happens when a person never sees
the source of stress escape and keeps looking for solutions. Sometimes a
traumatic experience can be triggered early in life. Chronic stress can stay
unnoticed since people can get used to it, unlike new and often immediate
stress. It can become part of the temperament of an individual and become
increasingly vulnerable to the effects of stress regardless of the scenarios they
face. Chronic stress people are likely to experience a final breakdown, leading
to suicide, violent acts, heart attacks, and strokes.
    What Do Stress and Anxiety Feel Like?
    Stress and anxiety can cause physical and psychological symptoms.
People encounter various stresses and anxieties. Common physical signs are:
          Dizziness
          Diarrhea
          Muscle tension
          Change in appetite
          Trouble sleeping
          Rapid breathing
          Sweating
          Headache
          Fatigue
          Shaking
          Frequent urination
          Fast heartbeat
          Stomachache
    Stress and anxiety can, in addition to physical signs, actually cause mental
or emotional symptoms. These could include:
          Feelings of impending doom
          Panic or nervousness, especially in social settings
          Irrational anger
          Difficulty concentrating
          Restlessness
    People with long periods of stress and anxiety will experience negative
health outcomes. They are more likely to experience diabetes, heart disease,
hypertension, and even depression and panic disease.
    Eustress and Distress
    Eustress translates to "good stress," a term that comes from a very
significant insight amongst people. If you have a positive view of any
scenario, you will never generate enough hormones to hurt you in the long
run. Think of young people seeking strong sensations— such as those young
people who go up in a helicopter and sprint directly from there on a ski hill
without trying to think of the avalanches this could trigger.
    In the field of stress science, researchers early on suggested that this
situation should lead to a significant long-term stress reaction among these
young people. When the researchers studied people in search of strong
sensations, they found that these people created sufficient stress hormones to
offer themselves a real "high," but not enough that they could hurt each other
in the long-term.
    Distress, on the contrary, refers to "bad stress." If you take me from a
helicopter on a ski hill, I will be in total distress, even with my skis on,
because I understand this entirely in an adverse way. I don't want to be there
and do not want to participate in an activity that I think is too dangerous.
Because I have a negative interpretation of the situation personally, I can
produce sufficient stress hormones to cause long-term harm.
    The scenario is similar in both situations (springing from a helicopter to a
ski hill), but the person who interprets it positively will not be affected by the
negative effects of stress, while the person with a negative interpretation is
affected.
    This example shows how the perception of a situation can significantly
influence the development of good stress (eustress) or bad stress (distress).
    Over the last few decades, we have devoted a lot of our focus to how
stress is always negative and we can do nothing. This is a false statement. In
demonstrating that a stress response arises from an understanding of a
situation as threatening (relative stress) or not, research has made it clear that
we have immense power over our stress response. Nonetheless, it is important
to explore how chronic stress takes root and can render us sick until we see
how we can manage stress more effectively. If you know about the long,
rolling road that can lead to chronic stress, I hope that the next time you come
across it, you are able to avoid it.