Stress as a mechanism of intermediary function in the onset of illness
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2011, Vol 15, Issue 1
Abstract
Living in the social milieu is a constant exposure to psycho-social stimuli, influencing an individual, and making it difficult to meet its substantial needs. It results from the differences between the requirements of the milieu and the abilities of a given individual to meet them. The force of impact of psycho-social factors depends on their significance for the person and the intensiveness and duration of stimuli. With substantial intensiveness and duration of the influence of stimuli, disturbing mechanisms (physiological, emotional and behavioral) may occur. It contributes to the manifestation of symptoms of an illness – the faulty physiological and psychological functioning of an individual. Prolonged prodromal symptoms turn, as time passes, into the illness picture - inefficiency and/or limiting individual’s functioning due to psychosomatic disorders. Frequent experience of stress as well as activation of physiological mechanisms of the organism’s reaction to stress, facilitates development of medical problems. There exists no unambiguous answer to the question, what determines which organs will be subject to the impact of distress.
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Ewa Ogłodek, Aleksander Araszkiewicz
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