Developing Skills to Help Yourself and Other People Get Healthy
To close these messages on emotional, mental, and physical stress, especially if you're a sensitive person, I'd like to talk about the effects of stress on health. This can also help if you aren't sensitive but live with or have sensitive persons in your family with very different personalities than yours.
Know that stress on yourself, and other people (especially the sensitive people in your life) tremendously affects their health.
Here are some of the areas affected by stress:
• "Some studies have shown that stress has many effects on the human nervous system and can cause structural changes in different parts of the brain."
• "High concentrations of stress hormones can cause declarative memory disorders."
• "There is an inverse relationship between the level of cortisol and memory."
• "The retrieval of events in memory after exposure to stress will be decreased …which may result from the competition of updated data for storage in memory in a stressful state."
• "Various clinical studies have suggested a direct effect of stress on irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal inflammation, and peptic ulcers" (many people with irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal issues experience more anxiety than other people and tend to be more emotionally sensitive).
Do you really want to see other people experience all of this stress, especially if they are more emotionally sensitive? Would you strive to be a person who would help others stay more calm, productive, and joyful instead of contributing to other people's stress?
If you're a sensitive person, strive to control your emotions better. Of course, you won't be in control of your feelings 100% of the time. However, you can start analyzing situations better and realize how lucky you are to be sensitive and how much good you have in yourself, work on your assertiveness, and better control stress and your health.
If you'd like to, read the article used as a source, or at least see the pictures explaining the effect of stress on health, memory, cognition, immune system, and gastrointestinal tract & nutrition.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579396/
