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A 10 page paper that reports and describes Hans Selye's, the father or modern stress theory, ideas and explanations of stress, including physical and psychological responses to stressors. The writer includes the evolution of PTSD from its origins in the Civil War as Soldier's Heart and traumatic neurosis. Physiological and psychological responses to stress are discussed. The paper also offers suggestions for preventing stress and coping with stress. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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century identified the fight or flight response which is the bodys normal reaction to danger or threat (Posen, n.d.). Cannon said this was a positive response because the body took
action to protect itself but Selye recognized that if that stress continued with the same responses, it could eventually harm the body and cause illnesses (Posen, n.d.). It was in
the 1920s that Selye recognized that something happened to sick people regardless of their illness (Posen, n.d.). Patients who were diagnosed with vastly different diseases all exhibited the same symptoms
of paleness, tiredness, listlessness, weight loss and apathy (Posen, n.d.). He initially referred to these symptoms as "the general syndrome of just being sick" (Posen, n.d.). But he wanted to
know why and began analyzing what led to the same responses in people with different diseases and he would eventually identify that common variable as stress (Posen, n.d.). The term
stress came from two places, engineering where it was used to explain mechanical strains, etc. and from Cannon who used the term in medicine (Posen, n.d.). In the mid-1930s, Selye
conducted a number of experiments on rats to discover their reactions to certain changes, such a heat, cold fear, toxins, etc. and found that the changes led to the same
results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thymus gland and lymph nodes) and gastrointestinal ulcers" (Posen, n.d.). Selye would
subsequently refer to the response as the general adaptation syndrome (Posen, n.d.). Selye initially explained: "Stress is the non-specific response of the body to any demand made upon it" (Posen,
n.d.). A demand is a threat or challenge or anything other change that forces the body to adapt (Posen, n.d.). The threat may or may not be real and valid,
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