HLTH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Constipation, Anomie Belle, Perspiration
20 Jul 2016
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Weather the stress be experienced as pleasant or unpleasant, depends on the situation and the individual. Learning effective responses to stress can enhance psychological health and help prevent a number of diseases: stress management can be a daily exercise. Stress refers to two different things: situations that trigger physical and emotional reactions, the reactions themselves. An exam is a stressor, and increased heart rate, and sweating is the stress response. The person taking the exam is feeling stress. If your exposed to a stressor, your body experiences a series of physical reactions: goes from relaxed state to one prepared for physical action. Two systems in your body control the physical repose to stressors: nervous system, endocrine system. The nervous system consists of the brain, spinal cords, and the nerves. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for unconscious, involuntary control of basic body processes: controls digestion, heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and 100"s more of involuntary functions.
