Gelisim News

Saying that stress provides the necessary energy to sustain human life, American Prof. Dr. William Mosier, faculty member of the Department of Child Development at Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) the School of Health Sciences spoke: “Humans are stress-seeking beings. The human body reacts to stress in a predictably physiological way. Stress creates an emergency discharge of adrenaline in our bodies. These chemical reactions lead to changes that speed up cardiovascular function and impact our digestion. To the human body, it doesn’t matter whether our stress reaction is from joy or fear; the physiological response is the same. Our stress response is the condition we experience when the body is creating excess energy.”

Saying “One must know how her/his response to stress to cope with it”, Prof. Dr. Mosier continued as follows: “The key is to become aware of your typical pattern of coping with stressful situations. The sources of stress in our lives are physical, psychological, and/or environmental. Our stress responses create a release of cortisol from your adrenal glands. This adrenaline surge increases heartrate and respiration and slows down digestion. Chronic release of stress hormones weakens your body’s immune response and reduces your resistance to viral infections.”

Prof. Dr. Mosier gave advices to coping with the stress as follows:
 

“When you are in a state of distress and want to feel better physical exercise can help. The physical release of energy is important in constructively controlling our stress response. Be kind to yourself. Believe in yourself. Remember, you are a worthwhile person and you have many strengths. Hanging on to negative feelings is unhealthy. Modifying your interpretation of the stressful situation can help you to overcome the negative effects of toxic stress (distress). The more tuned-in you are to the signs of your stress response, the greater your ability to stop the distress from becoming overwhelming. Recognize that you can change yourself more easily than you can change the world around you. How you manage your feelings will determine how well young children are able to manage their feelings. To change negative, destructive feelings, you have two choices: You can try to change the things that are beyond your control or you can choose to change things that are within your control. Focus on problems that you can solve, not on what you cannot change.”