Depression Worsens Stress- Brings More Harm to Our Health
Even a little stress, almost imperceptible for a healthy person, causes a long-lasting and robust reaction in a patient with depression. In response to stress, the body mobilizes all resources: the level of stress hormones increases, breathing and heartbeat increase, the level of glucose in the blood increases, from which all organs receive energy. Mobilization also applies to the immune system: the level of regulatory proteins of cytokines, which stimulate inflammation, rises- the immune system is preparing for the appearance of potentially dangerous foreign substances. The stress appears mostly as a normal reaction, "physiological" of the body. If he persists, he is responsible for all those unpleasant symptoms that often lead to the stress of seeing a doctor. Stress is not considered as an illness, but if it is not managed or controlled, it can promote the occurrence of sometimes serious diseases. The scientific community, therefore, defines stress as a ...