Sources Of Stress II - Frustration & Conflict
Monday, December 25th, 2006
Hurried and worried until we’re buried, And there’s no curtain call,
Life’s a very funny proposition, after all. ~ George M. Cohan
Frustration
Frustration is the experience of having one’s path or access to a goal blocked. A goal may be blocked because an obstacle has been introduced to prevent access, as when a roadblock […]
Sources Of Stress I - Modern Stressors
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Modern work on stress has gained popular interest because of numerous identifications of environmental stressors. Both daily hassles like commuting and crowding and traumatic experiences such as natural and technological disasters, have been linked with subsequent symptoms of stress. For example, victims of hurricane damage may show increased physical signs of stress […]
Stress Response
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006It was by chance that Hans Selye (1907-1982) stumbled upon the idea of the General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.), which he first wrote about in the British journal Nature in the summer of 1936. The G.A.S., alternately known as the stress syndrome, is what Selye came to call the process under which the body confronts […]
The Concept Of Stress
Friday, December 22nd, 2006Hans Selye - Physician, Endocrinologist, Researcher - Founder of the concept of Stress: The “Einstein of Medicine!”
Dr. Hans Selye was the pioneer in research into stress. As early as his second year of medical school (1926), he began developing his now-famous theory of the influence of stress on people’s ability to cope with and […]
