PSYCHOLOGY

Having gone through the reactions of stress on physiological and Psychological health, it is essential to learn about stress management techniques.Prior to that it is better to assertain the level of stress by a qualified psychologist by administering stress measuring scale. Before going to stress management techniques, let us see what other professionals say about STress management. Er.B.Amaresan, software Engineer,Silicon valley,USA says the following. "I strongly feel these are important to get rid of Stress." Meditation. Religion. Take responsiblity of your decision. Honesty. Content. Be passionate about your life. Sports. Love. And when I thought about why people are getting stressed, I think they encounter a problem and they want to resolve and they know that its beyond their capability. When you have the attitude of "I will do what I can and learn what I dont" some problems are resolved. And last but not least, people forget one important thing in life. Whe...

There are certain disorders which will affect the mental balance of the person under severe stress.They are as follows. 1) ANXIETY DISORDERS: i) Panic disorders: The reason for this is unexpected panic attacks. The symptoms are shortness of breath,palpitations,sweating,dizziness, fear of dying etc. ii) Post traumatic disord ers; It is a life threatning psychological trauma such as victim of physical or emotional violence. The symptoms are anxiety,apprehension,tension, repetitive nightmares, insomnia, depression, suicidal tendencies. iii)Phobias: It is fear mediated avoidance behaviour due to the danger posed by an object or situation and the person behaves out of proportion. Various phobias are mentioned below. A crophobia: fear of high places. Agoraphobia:fear of being in situations or places where escape is impossible. Clustro phobia: fear of closed places. Hemato phobia: fear of Blood. Monophobia: fear of being alone. pathophobia:fear of diseases. Ocholophobia: fear of crowds. iv) O...

Dr. swaminathan in his article on theoritical views on stress and sress related health problems says that any condition that makes the body mobilize its resources and burn more energy than it is normaly does is called Stress. As per Hans selye, three stages appear to occur in the body's reaction to sress. viz. Alarm reaction, Resistance, and Exhaustion. They are called the General adaptation syndrome(G.A.S) i) Alarm Reaction: If an individual is emotionally aroused the following bodily changes takes place. They are: Dilation of pupils,dryness of throat,nervous perspiration, need to urinate frequently,trembling, rapid pulse,tense muscles ,profuse sweating etc., ii) Resistance: If the stress continues for some time the individual enters the second stage called resistance to stress. In this stage the individual recovers from the first burst of emotion and tries to endure the situation as best one could. iii)Exhaustion: When one arrives at this point, he/she has exhausted the internal...

As the working pattern has been changed due to technology out sourcing, the diet and sleeping pattern changed.Due to work load the employees are under constant stress. To get the work done, the companies are encouraging weekend parties and picnics. Though they say that it will reduce the stress, it adversly increases the stress of parents,wife and children. Because of such paties, in some cases due addiction of alcohol,Cultural and Moral values are sinking.Often a news comes that a youth is drowned in swimming pool after party due to drinking. Now a days the divorces are increasing .within one or two months of marriage ,the highly qualified couples are approaching court for divorce. All due to what? That is due to poor psychological adjustment. They cannot cope up with the real life problems and pressures.They are lacking in work life balance. Constant stress will land one in depression,insomnia, ulcer, High blood pressure,Hyper- tension,MigraineHeadaches, Astma ...

Gone are days with lantern lights, but human life was bright and straight. Now the world is glowing with Atomic power but the life is gloomy and bent.With growing globel marketing,IT sector is booming.But the human Stress are zooming. what is stress? stress is an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body (or) by environmental and social situations which are evaluated as potentially harmful,uncontrollable or exeeding our resources for coping. Stress is the inner pressure caused by three sets of factors as mentioned below: 1) endogeneous 2) exogeneous and 3) interaction of endogeneous and exogeneous factors. endogeneous means internal(endo means inner ;geneous means origin or genesis) or originating from within; exogeneous means external (exo means outside) or originating from outside. in the modern world, a baby is under stress since not getting enough mother's milk and care,since she is away from home since employed. school going chlidren are under stress d...