What effects does psychological stress have on individual health?

Psychological stress has both positive and negative effects on health.

1. Positive significance: Moderate psychological pressure is a necessary condition for human growth and development. Early psychological stress experience can enrich individual coping resources, improve coping and adaptability in later life, and better tolerate the influence of various stressors and pathogenic factors. Children who are "overprotected" as children often have adaptation problems after entering the society, and even interrupt their studies or get sick because of long-term serious psychological pressure. Moderate psychological stress is a necessary condition to maintain normal functional activities. People's life is inseparable from stimulation, appropriate stimulation and psychological pressure. The collection and arrangement of medical education network is helpful to maintain people's physiological, psychological and social functions. Lack of proper environmental stimulation will damage people's psychosomatic function, while psychological pressure can eliminate boredom, motivate people to take action and overcome difficulties on the way forward.

2. Negative effects: Long-term or strong stress response will cause psychosomatic diseases and psychological disorders. The heart under psychological pressure

Physical and psychological reactions, especially strong negative reactions, will aggravate a person's existing diseases or cause recurrence.

As a whole, the physiological and psychological reactions of stress occur simultaneously. Seri describes the physiological reaction process with general adaptation syndrome, which mainly involves nerve-endocrine-immune system. The psychological response to stress is emotional, behavioral and cognitive, and the basic changes conform to the three stages of Seri's general adaptation syndrome. Psychological stress is regulated by the physiological mechanism of neuroendocrine immune system, and psychological cognitive evaluation, social support utilization, personality characteristics and coping style play an important role in the occurrence and development of stress. Life events have different meanings and stimulation intensity for people, and the stimulation intensity is marked by Wei Liu. When a person's life events are too exciting and last too long, they will cause diseases.