From very first day of lock-down, I am asking dear ones to keep calm and not to panic. When you panic, you create the series of events replicating it! Worse is to watch corona news!
Here is my note on stress in 2016 based on research paper I read then.
Stress is a major health threat in today’s society. It causes a range of psychological problems like burnout, depression and anxiety. Even those who lead relatively relaxed lives constantly come into contact with stressed individuals. Whether at work or on television: someone is always experiencing stress, and this stress can affect the general environment in a physiologically quantifiable way through increased concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol.
What to talk about lockdown? Stress is certain families is all time high!
Your stress is my stress! Your panic is my panic!
Stress is contagious. Observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone cortisol.
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My observation
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1) Stress is the root cause of physical diseases. Whether it is stress induced by you or your family or friends or your environment.
2) Children fall sick when they are exposed to stressful environment. Despite vaccination, many children get affected by infections – reason is family living in stress. Children living in slums are more prone to infectious diseases due to continuous stressful environment.
3) If your manager keeps you or anyone of your team under stress, overall health of team efficiency decreases . Stress-free work environment is a key factor in team success.
Stress is contagious. Observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone cortisol. This is the conclusion reached by scientists involved in a large-scale cooperation project between the departments of Tania Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and Clemens Kirschbaum at the Technische Universität Dresden. Empathic stress arose primarily when the observer and stressed individual were partners in a couple relationship and the stressful situation could be directly observed through a one-way mirror. However, even the observation of stressed strangers via video transmission was enough to put some people on red alert. In our stress-ridden society, empathic stress is a phenomenon that should not be ignored by the health care system.
