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Stress is a body reaction to demands or changes in the internal or external environment. Factors that lead to stress include competition, changes in environment, and an imbalance between demands and resources. Signs of stress include muscle tension, palpitation, indigestion, trembling, and difficulty swallowing. Diseases caused by stress include heart disease, depression, ulcers, hypertension, and insomnia. Stress busters include diet, massage, relaxation techniques, and dance movements. A person can react to stress by fighting, fleeing, or freezing depending on the nature and their capabilities.

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Stress

Stress is a body reaction to demands or changes in the internal or external environment. Factors that lead to stress include competition, changes in environment, and an imbalance between demands and resources. Signs of stress include muscle tension, palpitation, indigestion, trembling, and difficulty swallowing. Diseases caused by stress include heart disease, depression, ulcers, hypertension, and insomnia. Stress busters include diet, massage, relaxation techniques, and dance movements. A person can react to stress by fighting, fleeing, or freezing depending on the nature and their capabilities.

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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Delhi, All India 2012)

1. While there is no denying that the world loves a winner, it is important that you recognize the signs,
of stress in your behaviour and be healthy enough to enjoy your success. Stress can strike anytime, in
a fashion that may leave you unaware of its presence in your life. While a certain amount of pressure
is necessary for performance, it is important to be able to recognize your individual limit. For instance,
there are some individuals who accept competition in a healthy fashion. There are others who
collapse into weeping wrecks before an exam or on comparing marks sheets and finding that their
friend has scored better.

2. Stress is a body reaction to any demands or changes in its internal and external environment.
Whenever there is a change in the external environment such as temperature, pollutants, humidity
and working conditions, it leads to stress. In these days of competition when a person makes up his
mind to surpass what has been achieved by others, leading to an imbalance between demands and
resources, it causes psychosocial stress. It is a part and parcel of everyday life.

3. Stress has a different meaning, depending on the stage of life you are in. The loss of a toy or a
reprimand from the parents might create a stress shock in a child. An adolescent who fails an
examination may feel as if everything has been lost and life has no further meaning. In an adult the
loss of his or her companion, job or professional failure may appear as if there is nothing more to be
achieved.

4. Such signs appear in the attitude and behaviour of the individual, as muscle tension in various parts
of the body, palpitation and high blood pressure, indigestion and hyperacidity. Ultimately the result is
self-destructive behaviour such as eating and drinking too much, smoking excessively, relying on
tranquilisers. There are other signs of stress such as trembling, shaking, nervous blinking, dryness of
throat and mouth and difficulty in swallowing.

5. The professional under stress behaves as if he is a perfectionist. It leads to depression, lethargy


and weakness. Periodic mood shifts also indicate the stress status of the students, executives and
professionals.

6. In a study sponsored by World Health Organization and carried out by Harvard School of Public
Health, the global burden of diseases and injury indicated that stress diseases and accidents are
going to be the major killers in 2020.

7. The heart disease and depression both stress diseases are going to rank first and second in 2020.
Road traffic accidents are going to be the third-largest killers. These accidents are also an indicator of
psychosocial stress in a fast-moving society. Other stress diseases like ulcers, hypertension and
sleeplessness have assumed epidemic proportions in modern societies.

8. A person under stress reacts in different ways and the common ones are flight, fight and flee
depending upon the nature of the stress and capabilities of the person. The three responses can be
elegantly chosen to cope with the stress so that stress does not damage the system and become
distressed.

9. When stress crosses the limit, peculiar to an individual, it lowers his performance capacity.
Frequent crossings of the limit may result in chronic fatigue in which a person feels lethargic,
disinterested and is not easily motivated to achieve anything. This may make the person mentally
undecided, confused and accident-prone as well. Sudden exposure of unnerving stress may also
result in a loss of memory. Diet, massage, food supplements, herbal medicines, hobbies, relaxation
techniques and dance movements are excellent stress busters.

i) What is stress? What factors lead to stress?


(ii) What are the signs by which a person can know that he is under stress?
(iii) What are the different diseases a person gets due to stress?
(iv) Give any two examples of stress busters.
(v) How does a person react under stress?

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