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Medical Video: Strange Facts About Dreams
All things that happen in life can make people stressed out. Whether it's the end of the month financial crisis, office projects, final examinations or preparation of theses, to couples and family problems. But it turns out that besides making headaches and spotty, chronic stress can make you experience other strange and surprising things. Some of them you may never even realize that stress is the culprit.
Strange but real side effects experienced by people are stressed
1. Memory loss
Trying to remember where you put your car keys can be tormenting when you are hit by the stress of imagining a traffic jam while being chased by time. Or, you might not be able to remember what your boss delivered at the meeting ten minutes ago because the fear was overshadowed by the terror of deadlines. Familiar?
High levels of stress make the hippocampus, the region of the brain that controls short-term memory, so it's flooded with the stress hormone cortisol. This can inhibit your brain's ability to remember well. Dealing with stressors is the best way to restore your memory. But until that happens, immediately write down the important information that you get or look for other ways to refresh your memory. For example, a leisurely stroll to find fresh air.
2. Excessive sweating
Anxious and panicked goods for a while make some people sweat a little. But in people who are severely stressed, their bodies can over produce odorous sweat.
Excessive sweating and odor are produced by apocrine sweat glands, which are found in the armpit, groin, and leg area. The apocrine gland reacts quickly to stressors and does not need to be "heated" first, such as the endocrine glands that produce ordinary sweat (eg sweat after exercise). Stressed people sweat contains protein and fat, while ordinary sweat only contains water. Bacteria breed more easily where there is a lot of protein and fat, and where there is bacterial growth, odor will appear.
Strangely enough, a study published in the journal PLoS One found that stressful people sweat can emit certain signals that can be detected by people around them, so it might cause them to become stressed out too.
3. Nosebleeds
A study shows that some people can get nosebleeds suddenly after experiencing severe stress. This may be caused by a surge in blood pressure that you experience during stress. Elevated blood pressure is known to be one of the common side effects of chronic stress.
4. A dark sense of humor
Sometimes when stressed, we tend to make gloomy or sarcastic jokes, such as illnesses or life-threatening situations. In popular culture, dark humor like this is often called dark humor, and basically does not mean bad or ridicule or criticize.
As the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. The Association for Psychological Science says that laughing during difficult times can reduce the negative emotions that usually arise during stress. Using jokes or jokes triggers a self-defense mechanism to change your perspective on a stress trigger so that it is no longer considered a threat.
5. Nightmare
Stress can haunt you to dreamland. Nightmares experienced by stressed people often involve missing the bus, stealing the car, being swept away by the waves of the sea, and getting lost in the shopping center. Anyway, everything that implies bad luck. And not infrequently these dreams feel very real even when you wake up in the morning.
Stressed people also often experience hallucinations related to sleep. Hallucinations during sleep usually occur when your soul is still in a semi-conscious state. Not infrequently also half-wake hallucinations half asleep makes you experience "crunch", or feel dreamed of falling off a cliff.
6. Difficult to hear or narrow vision
The New York State Office of Mental Health reports that obstructed hearing and narrowed vision are two other strange but real side effects that can be experienced by people who are stressed. There are actually many sensory side effects from severe stress, including light sensitivity, confusion, and a feeling of dazed and easily wobbly.
