ACCORDING TO HANS SEYLE, PEOPLE RESPOND DIFFERENTLY TO GENERAL DEMANDS DEPENDING UPON THEIR CONDITIONING, EVALUATE THE ASSERTION IN RESPECT TO STRESS, MOTIVATION, AND FRUSTRATION.

This quotation clearly summarizes Hans Seyle’s belief on how stress affects the human body through aging and other natural body process.

 

In 1936, Hans Seyle created the stress model, General adaptation syndrome which thoroughly explains the stress responds and how aging and diseases are caused by chronic exposure to stress.

 

ALARM RATE

In this phase, initial reaction of the body to stress is that it labels the stressor as a threat or danger to balance. That is why it immediately activates its fight or flight response system and releases he stress hormone such as adrenalin, noradrenaline and cortisol these hormones enable you to perform activities that you do not usually do.

 

For instance, when ones house is on fire, his body shifts to alarm state. His stress hormone particularly the adrenaline and ten he lifts a very heavy appliances outside burning house, but there is a catch. Your blood pressure starts to rise after a minute or less which predispose you to damage of brain and hearth’s blood vessels’ putting you at risk of heart attack/stroke. This muscle you have utilized might also become painful due to tissue damage.

 

RESISTANT STAGE

After the body has responded to this stressor positively, it is more likely that the stress lvel has been eradicated or reduced. What happens next is that your body’s fight or fight response is that your body defences become weaker as it needs to allocate energy to repair of damaged muscle tissue and lower the production of stress hormone.

 

 Although, the body was shifted to the second phase of stress response, it remains on guard particularly when the stressor persists and the body required to fight them continuously, although not as stronger as it could during the initial response.

 

Exhaustion state

During this stage, the stress has been persistent for a longer period, the body starts to lose its ability to combat the stressor and reduce the harmful impact because the adaptive energy is all drained out, the exhaustion stage can be referred to as the gate towards burn-out or stress overload which can lead to health problems if not resolved immediately.

 

All in all, the general adaptation syndrome model by Hans Seyle presents a clean biological explanation of how he body responds and adapt to stress.