Dr. Kiran Kumar K | Appointment booking number: +91-9663516934
Consultant Psychiatrist & Director | The Nirvana Center, Marathahalli, Bangalore
“Stress” is the buzzword today, not only the mental health professional but even a lay person is taking about stress. Is stress abnormal? Stress is the way our body reacts at an emotional level as well a s psychiatric level and neuroimmunological changes. It is a cascade of chemical reaction. Is stress bad? No stress is required for optimal performance. Infact optimal or acute stress is generally important with the best of the persons. However when stress becomes chronic it becomes negative. So stress becomes distress. So there is activation of the autonomic system or the sympathetic system and there is activation of the hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis, which relates to released of counter regulatory or negative chemical as called as cortisols. Cortisol along with sympathetic hyperactivity and is a recipient for a lot of conditions, be it diabetes obesity hypertension, or psychiatric disorders in the form of depressions, anxiety, psychosis etc, in an vulnerable individual, be a genetic, biological, psychosocial vulnerability, when there is excessive stresses that leads to chemical change that leads to chemical changes and the patient moves from stress to dis stress to a disorders, called as a stress diathesis, lot on people with stress go on to develop resilience. If they have a vulnerability, they go on to develop a disorders. It is not only psychiatric disorders. Most of the chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, myocardial infraction, have the same etiology. So stress has a different parlance for a mental health professional and stress diathesis can lead to a disorder.
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