Type of stress

Depression is a serious illness. It has an impact on both physical and mental

health. Epidemiological studies have revealed that migraine and depression are
associated and that the relationship is bi-directional: individuals who are depressed
are at hihger risk for developing migraine and individuals with migraine are at a
higher risk for developing depression.(Breslau et al., 1994a, Breslau et al., 2000,
Breslau et al., 2003 and Pine et al., 1996). Depression affects how people feel about
themselve. They may lose their interest on doing their jobs, hobbies and doing things
that they normally enjoyed. Since depression makes life more difficult from day to
day, it may leads toward stress. Stress is an unavoidable part of everyday life. Life in
this modern days is infinitely far more complex that it has ever been. People live to
make complicated things become simpler as they are never designed to live in this
complex world, but complex world chose them to live in this kind of environment
with much demands on them. Some of the individuals might have a bad time
management and for this reason, they will have too many tasks at one time but have
too litte time to accomplish them all. In general, stress can be classified into three
major categories:acute ,episodic and chronic (refer to figure 1 in Appendix 1).
The first type of stress is acute stress. Acute stress is the most experienced
one, as it is basically caused by the daily needs and pressures encountered by each one
of us. The word stress itself indicates a bad view, but in this case acute stress is
actually a stress that bring out happiness and joy to us . Acute stress give us thrills
and chills. As for example, we break the boundaries from our comfort zone by joining
dangerous sports such as Bungee Jumping. Bunge Jumping lead us to experience
acute stress yet the same time brings excitement. Nevertheless, attempting a jump
from a very high pinnacle to the ground will bring us so much acute stress as we wish
to to make it end as soon as possible or at a point that you think you should not
attempt the jump in the first place. When you manage to complete the jump, you
would face the effects of acute stress such as vomiting, headaches or migranes ,and
other possible psychological symptoms. Emotional distress such as anger, anxiety
and irritability are the other symptoms that is caused by acute stress. In addition ,
acute stress will also lead to some physical problems such as stomach upset,
dizziness, heart paltipations and shortness of breath. Those two symtoms mentioned

previously will happen when we experience acute stress at a higher stage (Sincero,
2012).
Next, the second type of stress is Episodic stress. Episodic stress is the stress
that is caused when we experience acute stress too often. This kind of stress basically
experienced by people that is too obsessed with self-perfections , having a high level
of insecurity and having the feeling of anxious in their attempt to accomplish their
vision. Episodic stress only happens in a blue moon unlike the acute stress. This stress
will ceases to exist from time to time and yet not as frequent as the acute stress to
occur because it only happens when a person unable to overcome their acute stress
from becoming even worst. Literally , it is dependent to the individual itself as they
have the power to avoid this kind of stress. If they are able to control acute stress then
the tendency of having episodic stress will be zero. One with certain personalities
such as overly competitive,demanding, aggresive and sometimes tense and hostile is
identified and observed to face this kind of stress more frequent compared to others.
They will also experience longer periods of intermitted depression, emotional distress
and anxiety disorders. They started to ceaseless worrying about something simple and
tend to turn them into complicated things. In the end of the day , they ended to do
something unexpected and irrational as they are not able to calm down themselves
and failed to overcome the stress. Episodic stress might lead to more serious problem
and effects such as coronary heart diseases or other health problems (Sincero, 2012).
Last but not least, Chronic stress is the contrast of Acute stress. It does not
bring joy and thrills, but dangerous and unhealthy. Chronic stress may cause a selfdestruct to a person when they reach a stage of knowing that there is no other solution
to stop the stress or overcoming the problem other than to commit suicide. This type
of stress is caused by a serious problem such as unhappy marriage. A marriage failure,
for instance, is a problem that involves emotions and feelings. Therefore it is
considered as something that will brutally kills our life as this kind of problem seem
to be unending and life-threatening in just one shot and of course will give us chronic
stress . In addition, having a traumatic experiences, unwanted course or careers,
stress of poverty , relation conflicts and last but not least having a dysfuntional
political problem will also cause chronic stress. These stressful situations can even
lead a person to resort to violence unintentionally. Besides , some health illness such
as stroke, heart attack, cancer and other psychological problem like clinical
depression and post-traumatic disorder may caused by chronic stress. There are

several physical sign and symptoms caused by chronic stress such as dry mouth,
pounding heart, diaphoresis, frequent urination , stomach ache and others. This also
includes mental signs and symptoms like sudden irritability, tension, imsomnia and
frequent feelings of fatigue (Sincero, 2012).
In conclusion, there are three major types of stress and each with different
effects on both physical and mental health. That is why different people can suffer
different types of stress.