Why stress is bad?

Why stress is bad?

Today, dangerous situations are so much more situations where you have to react physically (as prehistoric man who had to flee or fight a wild animal) ... We are confronted with situations that put us in danger psychic. For example, a teacher who humble yourself, this is not a physical assault. A friend makes you a crappy shot either.

Faced with this stressful situation, even when we suffer a real "hormonal flood". But it is no longer used to allow our body to bear an expenditure of physical energy intense and brutal. You're not going to put a headbutt to a teacher or run away when a friend tells everyone what you've told him a secret.

That's where comes the problem: the influx of hormones is not used and has side effects, including heart and psychological. Stress, once necessary to survival, has become an inadequate response to emotionally distressing situations: working patterns school - requirements of teachers or employers, conflicts with friends, parents, city noises, transport ...