FRHD 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eustress, Cortisol, Thyroid Hormones
16 Dec 2015
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Non-specific responses of the body to any demands made on it - hans selye. Stressors include lots of tests, bad hair day, having a fight with a friend. When you like the stress, when it is a motivator or giving you a high. The same situation could be eustress or distress depending on the person. When you have no stress you are bored. Feeling irritable, anxious or apathetic: experiencing physical symptoms, having frequent illness, self medicating, concentration problems, working or studying longer or harder than usual, exaggerating the importance of what you do, becoming accident-prone, breaking rules, going to extremes. Fighter pilots have breathing monitored during training to make sure they were not stress and could think clearly. Breathe to think (and learn) most clearly: slow, 12-15 breaths/min is average, seated, near 6 breaths/min elicits good heart rate variability. Low: from the diaphragm, longer blow out (exhale longer than inhale) Perpetuating the response: short term hormones (eg. adrenalin)
