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A Disease based A Disease based Approach to Medical Approach to Medical English English Foreign Language College of Guangxi Medical University Stress it is not necessarily something to be avoided in our life Lead in Some of the effects of stress on your body your thoughts and feelings and on your behavior Effect on your body A tendency to sweat Back pain Chest pain Cramps or muscle spasms Erectile dysfunction Fainting spells Headache Heart disease Hypertension high blood pressure Loss of libido Lower immunity against diseases Muscular aches Nail biting Nervous twitches Pins and needles Sleeping difficulties Stomach upset Lead in Anger Anxiety Burnout Depression Feeling of insecurity Forgetfulness Irritability Problem concentrating Restlessness Sadness Fatigue Effect on your thoughts and feelingsEffect on your behavior Eating too much Eating too little Food cravings Sudden angry outbursts Drug abuse Alcohol abuse Higher tobacco consumption Social withdrawal Frequent crying Relationship problems Lead in What will happen when we are stressed Blood pressure rises Breathing becomes more rapid Digestive system slows down Heart rate pulse rises Immune system goes down Muscles become tense We do not sleep heightened state of alertness Lead in Diagnosis of stress A good primary care physician GP General Practitioner should be able to diagnose stress based on the patient s symptoms alone Some doctors may wish to run some tests such as a blood or urine or a health assessment The diagnosis of stress depends on many factors and is complex say experts A wide range of approaches to stress diagnosis have been used by health care professionals such as the use of questionnaires biochemical measures and physiological techniques Experts add that the majority of these methods are subject to experimental error and should be viewed with caution The most practicable way to diagnose stress and its effects on a person is through a comprehensive stress oriented face to face interview How to deal with stress There are three broad methods you can follow to treat stress they include self help self management and medication Exercise Division of labor Assertiveness Alcohol and drugs Caffeine Nutrition Time Breathing Talk Seek professional help Relaxation techniques Self help for treating stress Lead in Stress management techniques Stress management can help you to either remove or change the source of stress alter the way you view a stressful event lower the impact that stress might have on your body and teach you alternative ways of coping Stress management therapy will have the objective of pursuing one or more of these approaches Medicines Doctors will not usually prescribe medications for coping with stress unless the patient has an underlying illness such as depression or some type of anxiety If that is the case the doctor is actually treating a mental illness In such cases an antidepressant may be prescribed Bear in mind that there is a risk that all the medication will do is mask the stress rather than help you deal and cope with it Lead in Multiple Stressors all our body can do is to attempt to adapt to these long term stressors One could argue that smoking by its very nature is addictive Q How come many modern stressors are not external and physical at all just as if Text A The Useful Language Our own fears guilt and anxieties our fantasies about what might be going wrong can trigger the fight or flight response just as if the feared even itself were occurring Reading a book is just as if we are communicating with a good friend Q What else can we learn about many of the stressors in modern life in origin Text A The Useful Language Finally many of the stressors in modern life are impersonal in origin Their medical problems are basically physical in origin Q What kind of stressors do we all experience over the long term Text A The Useful Language Thus the stressors that we all experience tend to persist over the long term and the stress they arouse is often not effectively relieved through socially acceptable channels Over the long term secondhand smoke also raises the risk of disease in nonsmokers Q What will you have to do when you are out of the door bumper to bumper commuter traffic The Useful Language Text A You must sit in bumper to bumper commuter traffic worrying about whether you ll have time to prepare for an important meeting Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic Q What do you tend to do in the afternoon blow up at sb Text A The Useful Language In the afternoon you blow up at a subordinate then stew about your outburst Mother will blow up at you when she finds her best dishes broken Q When is the only chance you have to recuperate collapse in bed Text A The Useful Language Your stress level has remained elevated all day and the only chance you have to recuperate is when you collapse in bed at night A few days after his collapse he was sitting up in bed The Harmful Effects of Stress Video learning Th。