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Vishal
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# Posted: 4 May 2007 01:26
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Psychological stress is characterized by more than just having symptoms of uncharacteristic emotional outbursts and anxiety. Psychological stress usually occurs after a person has experienced an emotional trauma.
Someone suffering from psychological stress may not be aware of the amount of distress they are feeling, which often leads them to experience various emotional, cognitive and physical sings and symptoms. In many cases, these symptoms are quite serious, and generally require the attention of a healthcare provider.
The following are signs and symptoms of psychological stress that you should watch for. Keep in mind that not everyone experiences the same symptoms, and it is not uncommon for a person to only begin exhibiting symptoms months or even years following the event.
Emotional symptoms
Anger
Anxiety
Compulsive and/or obsessive behaviors
Depression, despair and a feeling of hopelessness
Emotionally numb
Feeling a loss of control
Feelings of fear
Irritability and resentment
Isolates oneself from regular relationships and routines.
Cognitive symptoms
Feeling distracted
Increasing lack of concentration
Indecisive
Physical symptoms
Chronic pain that is unexplained
Increase or decrease in eating difficulties
Lack of energy
Sexual dysfunction
Trouble sleeping
The above psychological symptoms are commonly experienced by those who have experienced emotional trauma that is not related to a sudden severe event such as a natural disaster, major car crash, child abuse, assault, violent crime, or rape. Those who have suffered from this degree of psychological stress may also have a delay in symptoms. However, when symptoms appear, they are often more severe than those that manifest in regular emotional trauma and include:
Re-living the traumatic event
Disturbing thoughts
Flashbacks
Nightmares
Sudden burst of emotion or images related to the trauma
Emotional numbness and evasion
Amnesia
Depression
Detachment
Distorted sense of time
Evasion of situations that remind one of the traumatic event
Feelings of guilt
Reactions of grief
Increase of Stimulation
Constant feelings of anxiety
Death obsession
Emotional overreactions and sudden outbursts including anger
Hyper-vigilance; feeling jumping and always ready for anything
Insomnia
Paranoia
It is unfortunate, but even if emotional trauma goes unrecognized, it can still create prolonged difficulty in a person's life. Thus, it is important that you recognize signs in yourself if you have experienced an emotionally traumatic event, or carefully observe someone whom you know has been through one. As soon as you begin to see the psychological sings and symptoms, you can help yourself or someone else start on the road to healing.
You should also know that when it comes to psychological stress, even without professional treatment, the symptoms often subside over time. That being said, in some cases, although symptoms appear to go away, they only hide and resurface months or years later.
For this reason, if you or someone you know has suffered a serious emotional traumatic event, it is highly recommended that you seek the care of a professional. Regular stress relief methods will not successfully relieve psychological stress. You need to find emotional stress relief. This is usually only achieved by opening up about the experience to allow emotional release so you can heal.
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Dr_Broadland
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2007 12:55
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There are many over lapping areas of psychological disorders, and it becomes sometimes quite difficult to evaluate a person who seems to be exhibiting anxiety or stress. Is she just stressed or does she have depression as well? Is the sleep pattern disturbed because of stress or is there an underlying more serious condition?
A person who feels that he/she is stressed should never presume the diagnosis of stress, except in an acute immediate sense, such as a bereavement or forthcoming examination, a special trip. Certainly chronic and episodic stress should always be presented to a physician for further evaluation. Serious psychological disorders often get overlooked or are hidden by the stress aspect of the mental state. It is the duty of the physician, the psychologist or the nurse to whom the symptoms are first reported to make a more detailed evaluation, and not miss conditions like endogenous depression, manic psychosis, etc.
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TajviRAC
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# Posted: 26 Apr 2008 09:04
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Isn't stress mainly psychological?
Though we have heard about physical stress, but they are exposed as pains or injuries.
However, the stress, even being a psychological phenomenon may impact on the physique as well. You have very nicely listed the symptoms, especially the physical ones.
However, I found it little difficult to differentiate between the cognitive and emotional ones, could you please clarify?
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Shelly
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# Posted: 12 May 2008 02:46
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What do yu mean by cognitive? Is it a technical term or a slang?
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Dr_Broadland
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# Posted: 12 May 2008 18:31
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Quoting: Shelly What do yu mean by cognitive? Is it a technical term or a slang?
It is opposite of slang.
Cognition is an abstract property of advanced living organisms
Many people have tried to make this word "Cognitive" or "Cognition" incomprehensible The concept of cognition is closely related to such abstract concepts as the mind, reasoning, and comprehension but also extends to perception, learning and intelligence. It includes all the varieties of things that the human mind can do, as opposed to what it does as a response to external stimuli. Thus a considered act is a result of cognitive thinking and is described as cognitive behaviour, while a reaction of flinching away from fire i.e. an instinctive type of behaviour is not real cognitive behaviour. Emotional reaction is also somewhat an opposite of cognitive behaviour.
In psychological evaluation and therapy different approaches as used, but cognitive behaviour therapy is considered by the new non-Freudian school to be superior. The approach is to try and help the person through affecting and modifying his thinking processes rather than the older approach of sitting and listening to and thereby extracting information out of the individual
In either approach I feel that "gaining the confidence of" the individual is most important. Neither modes of therapy would work without this. And here we turn a full circle to come to the subject of faith healing which also requires the full confidence of the person t be helped or cured.
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TajviRAC
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# Posted: 13 May 2008 15:34
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Is anyone familiar with "flight simulation" the pilots do?
I'm not telling about the simulator practice. I'm talking about the "mental" simulation the pilots do just closing their eyes.
Especially the fighter pilots do it more frequently than others.
Exercising the check list and redoing all the routines in mind, they achieve certain expertise which can save their life when in trouble.
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