2. OUTLINE
I. Stress in general
II. Stress and Infection
III.Stress and Cancer
IV.Stress and Wound Healing
V.Stress and the Entire Person
VI.Factors of Heavy Stress
VII.College student’s Guide on Stress
Management
3. INQUIRER.NET
Why push for classes when pandemic affects
students’ mental health? – CEGP to DepEd, CHED
The college Editor’s Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) said,
opening of classes led some students who could not cope with
emotional stress due to the health crisis to harm themselves.
According to CEGP, it has received reports that a 21 – year – old
male students committed suicide as the pandemic drove his family
deeper into poverty. So he could not afford the gadgets that would
be required for distance learning. CEGP added this is not the first
case of student dying by suicide.
The CEGP urges both Dep Ed and CHED to show more
compassion amid the pandemic.
4. Stress in general
To stress means to put under strain. We are learning
that these mental and physical tensions cause us
great damage.
Research has shown that these tensions accumulate,
a person becomes susceptible to physical illness,
mental and emotional distress and accidental
injuries.
Various parts of the body are directly affected by
stress:
Brain, skin, hair, mouth, lungs, heart, digestive
tract, reproductive organs, bladder, and muscles.
5. Stress and Infection
Feeling of sadness, depression, and exhaustion
resulting from chronic stress can cause a variety of
Neuroendocrine changes like elevations of blood
hormones and adrenaline.
Roger Bartrop’s research team from the university
of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, was the
first to report weaker immune cell function in
grieving persons who had recently lost a spouse.