Promoting lifelong good mental health. Enhancing self-esteem. Lowering cardiovascular risks, such as lowering blood pressure. Promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Q. How does social support help prevent illness?
People that are supported by close relationships with friends, family, or fellow members of a church, work, or other support groups are less vulnerable to ill health and premature death. Individuals afflicted with leukemia or heart disease have higher survival rates if they have extensive social support.
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- Q. How does social support help prevent illness?
- Q. How can social support reduce stress?
- Q. Does spending time with friends reduce stress?
- Q. What are the stressful situation?
- Q. How do you deal with stressful situation?
- Q. How did the stressful situation affect you?
- Q. What will happen if you can keep your emotions even when you are in stressful situations?
Q. How can social support reduce stress?
Overall, it appears that positive social support of high quality can enhance resilience to stress, help protect against developing trauma-related psychopathology, decrease the functional consequences of trauma-induced disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and reduce medical morbidity and mortality.
Q. Does spending time with friends reduce stress?
Having good friends and a strong social support network can relieve stress. One study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found that people who discussed difficult times in their lives had a lower pulse and blood pressure when they had a friend by their side.
Q. What are the stressful situation?
Chronic illness or injury. Emotional problems (depression, anxiety, anger, grief, guilt, low self-esteem) Taking care of an elderly or sick family member. Traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, theft, rape, or violence against you or a loved one.
Q. How do you deal with stressful situation?
Here are some steps you can take to cope with a stressful situation.
- Understand the Situation. Take some time to think about the situation you’re facing. Try to describe your situation in a sentence or two.
- Commit to a Positive Attitude. A positive attitude helps stop you from being dragged down by unhappy feelings.
Q. How did the stressful situation affect you?
Stress can play a part in problems such as headaches, high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, skin conditions, asthma, arthritis, depression, and anxiety. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) declared stress a hazard of the workplace.
Q. What will happen if you can keep your emotions even when you are in stressful situations?
“Suppressing your emotions, whether it’s anger, sadness, grief or frustration, can lead to physical stress on your body. The effect is the same, even if the core emotion differs,” says provisional clinical psychologist Victoria Tarratt. “We know that it can affect blood pressure, memory and self-esteem.”