"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver" is what Mahatma Gandhi believed.
An unhealthy person longs for the vitality a healthy life offers.
Mental health takes the lead over the physical one if the mind is in proper working order and only then can it command our body to function properly.
An unhealthy person can see degradation in his or her professional skills as health deteriorates.
What is Stress? Stress is undoubtedly the most common and most lethal disease since ancient times.
Today's hectic jobs and a fast paced life burdening people are issues that people deal with which contribute to stress.
Though it is not believed to be a disease in and of itself.
Rather it has been a cause of life taking strokes, yet an agreeable fact also exists that a stressed life is no life if not lived at all.
Stress affects every sphere of a person's life; be it personal, domestic or professional.
As far as defining what stress really is there have been multiple definitions which the health experts suggest, but it can simply be defined as "a state of physiological, or psychological strain caused by adverse stimuli, physical, mental or emotional, internal or external that tend to disturb the functioning of an organism and which the organism naturally desires to avoid.
" If we just take look around our surroundings we will hardly find any person who is not stressed in one way or another; be it somebody belonging to the corporate world, medicine, engineering, academics or a mere worker in a restaurant, all seem to be struggling with stress.
It may appear to be an ordinary or routine matter but in reality it poses great health risks.
Stress impacts mental health in a large number of our population and, surprisingly enough, our lifestyles have become such that everyone seems to be under its effects.
But more importantly, the threat it offers to the lives of academics is worth considering and looks to have far reaching effects.
Take, for instance, a teacher: His main job involves imparting quality education and ultimately playing his role in nation building through structuring his students to be a great assets to the nation.
The teacher, teaches to his best, but when the unfortunate student fail to deliver the result it causes him stress and ultimately his resolve to build the nation is tempered a bit.
There may have other factors which can be pointed to as stimulus disturbing the proper functioning of a teacher.
For example, if he is stressed because of the affair of wife with another man or because of the failing health of his cancer affected daughter, he can potentially ruin a lot of intelligent minds in his class.
In this scenario, stress does not let him concentrate on his job and teach students effectively.
It is indeed the reason of some major life taking diseases as well.
What follows are some internal medical mechanisms which take place during transformation of mere stress into life taking strokes.
Hypertension Stress messages activate Sympathetic Nervous System which may in turn increase norepinephrine levels; a hormone leading to the constriction of vessels.
It is hypertension.
Heart Attack Stress also increases lipid and cholesterol level in the blood, which can form thrombosis in the arteries.
The blocking of distant artery by this thrombosis (clot) is called embolism.
The blocked artery can be a coronary artery which will ultimately decrease blood supply to one part of the heart.
The Heart needs continuous supply of energy which gets restricted by fatty cholesterol plack.
It makes the heart unable to perform properly.
Brain Stroke Stress may also involve a cerebral event such as a brain stroke.
It is same as the heart attack.
Like heart, brain also needs continuous supply of energy which gets restricted by any emboli.
The respective area of the brain which gets deprived of energy may cause death of that very part.
It would cease operation of those parts of the body which are controlled by the effected part of the brain.
How to get rid of stress? An educationist is a man who has maximum interaction daily with numerous students, colleagues, boss, company etc.
He is thusly experiencing the maximum chances to be effected by such a common but dangerous stress induced disease.
But by exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, reducing caffeine and sugar, avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs along with getting enough sleep can help in getting rid of disease inducing stress.
An unhealthy person longs for the vitality a healthy life offers.
Mental health takes the lead over the physical one if the mind is in proper working order and only then can it command our body to function properly.
An unhealthy person can see degradation in his or her professional skills as health deteriorates.
What is Stress? Stress is undoubtedly the most common and most lethal disease since ancient times.
Today's hectic jobs and a fast paced life burdening people are issues that people deal with which contribute to stress.
Though it is not believed to be a disease in and of itself.
Rather it has been a cause of life taking strokes, yet an agreeable fact also exists that a stressed life is no life if not lived at all.
Stress affects every sphere of a person's life; be it personal, domestic or professional.
As far as defining what stress really is there have been multiple definitions which the health experts suggest, but it can simply be defined as "a state of physiological, or psychological strain caused by adverse stimuli, physical, mental or emotional, internal or external that tend to disturb the functioning of an organism and which the organism naturally desires to avoid.
" If we just take look around our surroundings we will hardly find any person who is not stressed in one way or another; be it somebody belonging to the corporate world, medicine, engineering, academics or a mere worker in a restaurant, all seem to be struggling with stress.
It may appear to be an ordinary or routine matter but in reality it poses great health risks.
Stress impacts mental health in a large number of our population and, surprisingly enough, our lifestyles have become such that everyone seems to be under its effects.
But more importantly, the threat it offers to the lives of academics is worth considering and looks to have far reaching effects.
Take, for instance, a teacher: His main job involves imparting quality education and ultimately playing his role in nation building through structuring his students to be a great assets to the nation.
The teacher, teaches to his best, but when the unfortunate student fail to deliver the result it causes him stress and ultimately his resolve to build the nation is tempered a bit.
There may have other factors which can be pointed to as stimulus disturbing the proper functioning of a teacher.
For example, if he is stressed because of the affair of wife with another man or because of the failing health of his cancer affected daughter, he can potentially ruin a lot of intelligent minds in his class.
In this scenario, stress does not let him concentrate on his job and teach students effectively.
It is indeed the reason of some major life taking diseases as well.
What follows are some internal medical mechanisms which take place during transformation of mere stress into life taking strokes.
Hypertension Stress messages activate Sympathetic Nervous System which may in turn increase norepinephrine levels; a hormone leading to the constriction of vessels.
It is hypertension.
Heart Attack Stress also increases lipid and cholesterol level in the blood, which can form thrombosis in the arteries.
The blocking of distant artery by this thrombosis (clot) is called embolism.
The blocked artery can be a coronary artery which will ultimately decrease blood supply to one part of the heart.
The Heart needs continuous supply of energy which gets restricted by fatty cholesterol plack.
It makes the heart unable to perform properly.
Brain Stroke Stress may also involve a cerebral event such as a brain stroke.
It is same as the heart attack.
Like heart, brain also needs continuous supply of energy which gets restricted by any emboli.
The respective area of the brain which gets deprived of energy may cause death of that very part.
It would cease operation of those parts of the body which are controlled by the effected part of the brain.
How to get rid of stress? An educationist is a man who has maximum interaction daily with numerous students, colleagues, boss, company etc.
He is thusly experiencing the maximum chances to be effected by such a common but dangerous stress induced disease.
But by exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, reducing caffeine and sugar, avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs along with getting enough sleep can help in getting rid of disease inducing stress.
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