Stress impact on health (ID:409736)

Stress is defined as the state when people are experiencing difficulties in coping with the situations they are in due to the lacking of abilities or knowledge to handle them. These situations are often referred as stressors. The way how individuals are reacting to these stressors is referred as stress response. The General Adaptation Syndrome is a theory introduced by Hans Selye. There are behavioural, cognitive and physiological features in each stages of GAS. The physiological aspect of the individuals dominates the alarm stage. Due to the release of hormones such as adrenaline, they stimulate different changes in the body such as increase heart rate and blood pressure in preparation of the body to ‘fight or flight’ the situations. However, if the person cannot cope with the changes in their body, this could be fatal as it may cause shock.