STRESS AND DEPRESSION
Disease information
STRESS AND DEPRESSION
Stress and depression
.
Definition.
Stress
is
a
nonspecific
answer of the organism to an aggression or an stimulation. The aggression can be of two types:
•Física:
blows, wounds, pain, scent, noise, cold.
•Psíquica:
irritation, dissatisfaction,
fear
.
The answer to the estresante agent is translated in
a
cascade of identical physiological reactions, stereotyped that allow to maintain
a
certain balance biological.
The answer is originated with the intervention of two levels of defense that interact among them:
•El
nervous
system
.
•El endocrino
system
.
Stress
has
like consequence an stimulation of the hypothalamus that causes, on the one hand, an increase of the ortosimpático tone and by another one,
a
brutal increase of secretions of the hipotálamo - hipofisario axis, the suprarrenal marrow (noradrenaline and adrenalin) and of the suprarrenal crust (cortisol)
Manifestations.
The external manifestations of
stress
are easily reconocibles. They can be pronounced by means of
a
panic or anguish crisis:
•Dispnea.
•Palpitaciones.
•Dolor or torácica annoyance.
•Sensación of asphyxia.
•Vértigo.
•Sofocos.
•Transpiración.
In case of aggression or prolonged
stress
, it is possible to be arrived at
a
generalized state of anxiety. In this case it is frequent that
a
descompensación with expression of functional signs takes place that vary according to the weak points of the organism.
These functional signs are pronounced in four great categories of symptoms:
• neurovegetativos Upheavals:
sudorosas palpitaciones, hands or you cold, dryness of mouth, "knots" in the
stomach
, nauseas, diarreas.
•Problemas motor:
contractions, tremors, crispation of the face, agitation.
•Problemas of the watch:
hyperwatch,
problems
of concentration, irritability,
insomnia
.
•Problemas of humor:
it distresses, restlessness, pesimism,
fear
.
When
stress
becomes
chronic
can get to be devastating. We attended in these cases, to authentic psychic or physical pathologies:
•Problemas digestive:
hemorrágicas ulcers of
stomach
,
straight
-
colitis
.
•Problemas gynecological:
benign
lack of ovulation, hypofertility,
mammary
affections.
•Problemas
cardiovascular
:
arterial
hypertension
, aterosclerosis, infarcts,
problems
of the rate.
•Problemas cutaneous:
psoriasis
, eczema.
allergic
•Manifestaciones: urticaria,
asthma
.
•Problemas
nervous
:
depression
, migraines,
impotence
.
cancerous •Transformaciones.
The time of exhibition to the
stress
conditions the vulnerability of the organism and the
problems
that causes.
But
the human beings we are not all equal ones before an aggression. Certain specialists schematically group the individuals in three psychological profiles:
Type
A
:
Subject extroverted,
dynamic
, hyperactive, often aggressive, ambitious, impatient.
Stress
is its motor. The reaction to the aggression easily is expressed, often of excessive form. The body responds with
a
massive adrenalin secretion. These individuals are prone to suffer
cardiovascular
affections.
Type
C
:
Subject introvert, totally repressed.
Stress
is an inhibitor for him. It often eludes the responsibilities. It is described to him erroneously like calm. In the biological plane, its behavior is translated in intense secretions of cor tisol. Prone to suffer immune pathologies,
infections
, reumatismos, depressions,
cancer
.
The B type:
Subject intermediate or difficult to classify.
Stress
stimulates to him or it inhibits to him. The B type represents the ideal type of behavior.
But
in case of continued and repeated aggressions, this subject can tilt easily towards category
C
.
Treatment.
1.
Fitoterapia
.
Several
vegetal
species exist to our disposition that present / display an interesting
activity
in the treatment of the phenomena of distonía neurovegetativa. With regard to the anxiety and to
stress
, they are used in association, particularly three:
Pasiflora
,
Valeriana
and
Espino
to albar. The actions of these medicinal plants will not be repeated since they have been described previously.
Manifestations.
The relation between
stress
and the
depression
often supposes diagnosis
problems
. In effect, the depressive pathology goes
almost
always accompanied of anxiety
problems
. In order to differentiate them, it is tried to find signs
specific
of the
depression
such as: intense sadness or pessimistic preoccupation, agitation, autodesprecio, physical changes (
insomnia
, anorexy, loss of vital impulse, enthusiasm and the líbido one) mental slowness, etc.
Plants adapted for this
disease
.
Hawthorn
to albar.
Valeriana
.
Pasiflora
.
Hipérico
/ Hierba of San Juan.
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