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More than 80% of doctors' visits are related to stress.
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A recent IPSOS survey says 23% of OECD members feel stressed every day,
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and 52% experience sleep and fatigue issues that they believe are stress related.
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But what is stress?
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The word stress originates from the Latin word stringaray,
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which means to compress and to squeeze.
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Stress arises when there is an imbalance between a person's perception
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of the constraints imposed by their environment
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and their perceptions of their own resources to cope with them.
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Here is the description of the three phases in the stress response
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the alarm phase,
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the resistance phase,
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and the exhaustion phase.
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Hans Seeley described these three phases in the 1940s.
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The alarm reaction is the first phase of the process when faced with the aggression
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during which the first manifestations appear
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the throat or stomach knots,
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short and Accelerated breathing,
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increased heartbeat,
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increased blood pressure,
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increased tension in certain muscles,
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anxiety and anguish.
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These reactions are caused by the release of hormones such as adrenaline,
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which take a few minutes to act.
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Their purpose is normally to prepare the body
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for rapid action such as fleeing or attacking.
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These instinctive physiological alert responses can
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be very helpful in survival situations.
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If you find yourself in traffic jams when an important meeting is scheduled,
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you will no doubt experience all these
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so-called alert physical manifestations in you.
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Without that tension being really useful to you,
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resistance is the second phase of the stress adaptation process.
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When the uncomfortable situation continues,
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when the aggression continues,
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and you have found no acceptable solution,
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then a process of resistance through adaptation automatically sets in.
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This step will help preserve the body from exhaustion by
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offsetting the energy costs used to cope with stress.
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Other hormones glucocorticoids are secreted during this stage,
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allowing an increase in the level of blood sugar
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necessary for the body,
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To be in a state of alarm indeed burns a lot of energy.
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In this second phase,
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the body seeks to nourish itself to compensate for the burnt energy.
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It strives to keep the body healthy under stress.
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It finds the physiological strategies to hold on
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and hold out in the storm.
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If the weather quickly becomes calm again after
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the person has gone through the stressful situation,
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we can speak of so-called positive stress.
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The stress will have been managed.
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more than overwhelmed by stress,
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stress will have mobilized its energy for a short period of time
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to face an emergency,
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or the time of challenging public speaking.
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Then the body can rest
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and recharge its batteries.
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Depending on the person and the level of stress,
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this adaptation phase may last longer or shorter before breaking down.
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Some are more resilient than others because they adapt
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more easily than others to a stressful situation.
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They take it upon themselves.
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This ability to resist,
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to adapt to stress,
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is an advantage and a disadvantage.
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It is an advantage because as you cope for longer,
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you can face bigger challenges without collapsing.
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We have what is called a resilience capacity.
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the ability to resist,
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to adapt for a very long time,
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can also be a downside.
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We cope with stress.
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We accept back pain and other symptoms that we try to mute with medication.
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We take it upon ourselves.
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There is no longer any real urgency in finding solutions to a stressful situation
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when you know how to deal with it,
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when you cope with it by.
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From the adaptation resistance phase,
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we come to the exhaustion phase if the stress continues.
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the work overload is permanent,
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if the conflict with the customer is renewed from day to day,
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if changes to the organization follow one after another.
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In these cases there is not enough nervous and physical recovery time.
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Weekends are not even enough to recharge your batteries.
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even the long awaited vacation is no longer enough to rebalance us.
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It is stress exhaustion.
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The resistance armies of the previous phase collapsed,
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defeated by the intensity of the stress,
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by days of staunch resistance,
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or by years of painstaking adaptation to a stressful life.
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The body overwhelmed and constantly called upon by the stressful situation,
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no longer succeeds in mobilizing its resources.
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It is exhausted.
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It can no longer cope with assaults because of their duration and their intensity.
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Psychological and biological reserves are exhausted.
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It is during this phase of exhaustion that certain illnesses or burnout can appear.
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We have therefore seen the three phases of stress alarm,
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or resistance phase,
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If you are feeling exhausted,
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it is urgent to react,
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to ease off and get help.
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If you are in the resistance phase,
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it is essential to ask yourself three questions.
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Has this phase lasted a long time?
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Is the stressful element temporary,
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a deadline on a big project,
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a colleague on holiday,
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or a takeover of the company?
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Or is the stressful element permanent,
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a problem of work organization,
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lack of recognition,
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difficult relationships,
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or permanent changes,
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in which case it is essential to find a strategy
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either so that the pressure decreases or to be less affected by it.
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Do you know the fable of the boiled frog by Olivier Clerk?
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If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water,
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it will immediately jump out and run away.
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If you put a frog in a pot of cold water and heat it gently,
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it will eventually die when it boils.
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The fable is based on an actual physical law which says
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if the rate of heating the water is less than 0.02
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the frog does not move and will eventually die after cooking is complete.
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At a higher rate of heating,
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the frog jumps and escapes.
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When the pot is warmed gently,
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the frog will gradually adjust its body temperature.
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the frog can no longer adjust its temperature.
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It also can't jump any more because it has no more energy.
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It has used it to constantly adjust to the temperature.
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It will die cooked.
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The frog preferred to adapt and adapt and
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still adapt to the stressful rise in temperature,
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and it was cooked.
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Too weak to jump when its survival was at stake.
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When stress leads us to illness,
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it is often that like the frog we have gritted our teeth and thought we had to hold on,
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adapt instead of quickly jumping out of the pot.
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To jump out of the pot is to quickly
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find solutions to stressful problems from the alert phase.
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It may also consist of a change of environment,
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sometimes radically.
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