PSY-1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 38: Mindset, Behavioral Medicine, Thymus
6 Dec 2016
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We can respond and view it as a threat or a challenge. We focus at the challenge and are distracted after the threat(?: stress can have positive effects and can mobilize us to do good. It motivates us to achieve more: prolonged stress hurts us and leads to later health problems. Abused children are more likely to experience these types of situations: stressors are things that push our buttons , catastrophe. It"s unpredictable and affects almost everyone who faces it: often associated with uprooting, which doubles the stress, significant life changes. Even happy things are stressful, and makes us more vulnerable to disease: daily hassles. Add up and take a toll on our well being. Specifically in our cardiovascular system: ways at responding to stress, adrenal glands release epinephrine. The sympathetic system speeds up our heartbeat and releases sugars throughout our body.
