Episodic Acute Stress

One of the other types of stress is Episodic Acute Stress. When acute stress starts to happen, more often it is called episodic acute stress. People who always seem to have a continuous crisis in their life seem to have episodic acute stress. People that tend suffer from this always seem to be in a rush, they take too much on and tend not to be able to organize themselves to deal with demands and pressures. People who have Episodic Acute stress are often short-tempered, irritable, and anxious. The individuals who seem to see the negative side before thinking of the positive side of everything also tend to have episodic acute stress. Negative health effects are persistent in people with episodic acute stress. It may be hard for people with …show more content…
If acute stress is not resolved and begins to increase or lasts for long periods of time, it becomes Chronic stress. Chronic stress is the completely opposite of acute stress; it is not exciting and thrilling, but dangerous and unhealthy. This type of stress is brought about by long-term exposure to stressor chronic stress tears the life of a person apart from his mind and body. This kind of stress is grinding, it wears you down day by day and year after year. It is so insidious you may not even be aware that you are living in a constant state of stress. Chronic stress is stress that someone can feel when they cannot see a way out of the demands and/or pressures that are making them feel depressed, miserable, and disheartened on a continual basis. This stress is constant and does not go away. It can stem from such things as poverty, an unhappy marriage, a bad job, etc. Thirty five percent of the people cited jobs interfering with their family or personal time as a significant source of stress and fifty four percent of people said stress has caused them to fight with people close to them. Chronic stress can be detrimental to your health, as it can contribute to several serious diseases or health risks, such as heart disease, cancer, lung disease, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, suicide. “heart problem or any other condition that would put them at risk” (Thibodeau, 2006). Factors of chronic stress can be the feeling of being a trap in an unhappy marriage or career and tend to be associated with ill health, alcohol excess, and violence and can even be associated with suicide. Some of the symptoms of Chronic Stress are anxiety, depression, isolation, and headache, lack of sleep, behavioral changes, and difficulty concentrating. “The discomfort of these feelings of guilt when your behavior doesn't fit with your own standards of right and wrong can be a strong motivator to make changes. Sometimes, though, it