Impact of Society and Environment on Individual’s Stress

Abstract

Stress is a normal part of life. Everyone can feel stress from their environment, their own body and their own thought. It is a body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response. The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental and emotional responses. The human body is designed to experience stress and to it. Stress can be positive or negative. In positive side, it can keeping us alert, motivated and ready to avoid danger. Stress becomes negative when a person faces or embarrasses continuously without relief or relaxation from stress. As a result, the person becomes overworked and suffers from stressful arousal. In emergency stress situations, the body’s autonomic nervous system is activated to deal with stressful situations. However, this response remains active for a long time. This uninterrupted activity in response to stress causes the body to tear mentally and physically. Without relief, continuing stress can lead to a condition, called distress. Distress can disturb the body’s internal balance, resulting in significant physical, behavioural, emotional, social and intellectual responses in the individual stress becomes harmful when people engage in the compulsive use of substances or behaviours include food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, playing, video games and searching the internet to try to relieve their stress. But instead of returning to a relaxed state, these substances and compulsive behaviour keep the body in a stressful condition and cause more problems. There are all kind of situations that produce stress. These include good things, like new babies or new jobs and unpleasant things like divorces or illnesses.