Harmful Effects Of Human Stress

Caviola and Faber (2014, p.1) write that you are standing on a bridge and an old man is standing next to you. Under this bridge, there are railway tracks. There are five people who are standing on it. Suddenly you see a trolley which is coming fast towards the five people and they cannot escape. You could push the old man over the bridge to stop the trolley and save the five men .what are you going to do? What are your feelings? Always there are situations that put us under pressure and stress. Stress is a response from inside. It comes out when we are in a tensional situations. No one can avoid being stressed because stress is a natural instinct. Stress can lead us to things that are positive. However, it also leads us to bad effects. Stress can be harmful to one’s health in three different aspects: sleeping, memory and level of anxiety.

The first aspect that stress can affect negatively in our health is sleeping. Sleeping is important to every one of us. According

How does stress overlap with memory? Firstly, we need to know how our memory works. Everyone has two kinds of memory one is called short-term memory and the other is called long-term memory. According to Center for studies on Human Stress, Stress has different effects on both of them. Our memories goes first to the short-memory and then, they gets processed and stored into the long-term memory. When we are stressed, our body releases a hormone called cloistral. This hormone can lead to a failure of concentration. Center for studies on Human Stress stated that (p.1) “When stress hormone levels are very high, they make learning and remembering very difficult to everyone”. Lava (2015), writes that stress caused by an emotional trauma can also lead to memory loss. On other words, when there is someone who has an emotional shock, this shock leads to stress. Then, stress leads to forgetting things. Consequently, stress can affect one’s memory