As you probably know, stress factors can affect your life. In fact, they affect the lives of millions. Seeing the same thing every day, something that begins to happen. The human mind has the capability to ignore what it sees in a repetitive way, simply because it knows it will be there. Should the stress in your life disappear, you might actually become stressed because it vanished. Stress factors, therefore, are things that you need to become familiar with in your life, so that you know what to do when the time arises.
Children are often subjected to all kinds of stress factors, and these are often carried into adulthood. Children are often subjected to various types of abuse. Not all abuse is severe or even committed intentionally. If the abuse was severe or deliberate, it will have an even greater impact on the child. Such negative experiences can trigger stress in the brain, and this can continue long after the actual abuse has ceased to occur. Those people who have a lower innate tolerance for stress will be especially affected by such experiences. You can see the possibilities when you combine the two. People that experience stress that high levels may have stress factors that cause medical conditions to show up for seemingly no reason. Obviously, if you were to take a sampling of the US population, chronic diseases could be found virtually everywhere. Everything from cancer, to heart related diseases, to things like diabetes, are related to stress factors in some way. What compounds the problems for these people is the medical related stress is on top of other pre-existing stress. Most efforts that are put into an illness that is diagnosed usually go into the physical malady, not what caused it. People should be evaluated and treated for stress reactions as well. Everyone should get a professional evaluation, counseling should be provided, and other options should be presented.
The people who experience the greatest hardship due to stress factors are children. The main reason for this is that communication skills aren’t yet developed enough that they can tell people what’s wrong. In everyday matters, kids are usually very good at communicating. Yet when it comes to stress factors, it takes a certain amount of sophistication and maturity to even understand what’s happening. The impact of the stress on a child will depend on the severity and length of time it lasts, of course. These at-risk children can find themselves in a cycle of increasing stress. It’s typical for a child who is under stress to have behavior problems. Then they usually are disciplined which only aggravates the stress and confuses the child. Accepting that stress
is there, and is something we must deal with, is a part of our modern culture today. Our lives may not be that easy to alter, but the way we process our lives, the way we condition ourselves to deal with stress, can be changed. In reality, who is to say you cannot do this? Isn’t anything possible?