Posted 6/9/2014 1:41 AM (GMT 0)
SOIA,
This is just a little part of a link that I had posted before, on something I found about stress. Stress causes our body to do all kinds of stuff..And we can only put our body through stress for so long, and it will start reacting. This article made sense to me.
"Headaches, rapid breathing, sweaty palms, cold feet, stomach butterfiles or cramps, racing thoughts, emotional outbursts - these are some of the ways the body reacts to stress.
Your body responds to all the uncontrolled, conflicting, competing demands and pressures by automatically and unconsciously mobilizing its resources to deal with all of them at the same time. As a consequence, your energy reserves are tapped, the electrical activity of your skin, your breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increase. Muscles tense, blood vessels constrict, blood flow shifts from skin and gut to muscle and brain. Your digestive system slows down or worse, empties the bowels suddenly. Your temperature rises, your metabolism speeds up, your immune system prepares for battle, your blood platelets become sticky so your blood will coagulate faster, and your kidneys conserve sodium. Your liver releases blood sugars (glycogen) for fast energy. Thinking and learning change under stress. The mind scans for danger, even magnifying threats that may not be serious. Decision making can become rapid and impulsive or hesitant and frozen. Emotions become magnified - irritability turns to anger, concern turns to anxiety, fatigue turns to depressed mood.
You can only push yourself so hard for so long. When you exceed your physical limits for mobilization, something in your mind and/or body breaks down. You're going to develop stress-related symptoms. Sometimes they're physical, sometimes they're mental. We've listed the physiological systems in which stress symptoms occur. "