Stress is your body's reaction to challenging situations. Your brain will signal that hormones are delivered throughout the body's systems. These hormones will increase heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure, and make your muscles tense. Before you realize what's going on, your body is ready to act. When the challenging situation passes, the state of your body will return to normal.
Good Stress Vs Bad Stress
Stress is a natural response that allows you to be prepared for challenging situations or dangers. This feedback begins in the brain. Good stress can help you act immediately. Positive stress can also help you achieve your goals and improve your performance, for example during exams, interviews, or meetings.
However, prolonged or extreme stress fades. If your body is always in a state of distress, it may bring physical, emotional, and mental problems. Your behavior, including the way you treat others, may change. People who experience prolonged stress are usually more easily trapped in bad habits such as drunkenness, taking drugs, smoking, and so on. Such stress can even cause depression, lethargy (burnout), and the desire to kill yourself.
The effects of stress on each person vary, but stress can cause many types of diseases and affect almost every part of the body.