Contents:
- Medical Video: Jumpy and Startled Easily From Anxiety? (So Frustrating!)
- Acoustic habituation, the body's response to facing loud sounds
- Then if I feel shocked easily, is it normal? Or am I having a mental disorder too?
Medical Video: Jumpy and Startled Easily From Anxiety? (So Frustrating!)
Have you ever been surprised when you heard loud and sudden sounds? The loud sound that you hear suddenly, suddenly makes a sense of shock appear. This shock is a natural response that the body has when an unexpected event occurs.
At first when a loud sound was first heard, you were very surprised. Then, when the sound repeats a second time, your shock will diminish, until you are familiar with the sound.
Why does the body feel shocked when he hears unexpected loud noises? Is it natural to often feel shocked by something?
Acoustic habituation, the body's response to facing loud sounds
Habituation is a condition where you are familiar with stimuli or stimuli that come from outside. The more often the stimulation comes, the easier you are to adapt so that your attention will gradually decrease towards it.
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Western Ontario found that acoustic habituation is the brain's ability to filter and block unusual sounds and visual information. So, you can focus on more important things, not bothered by loud sounds that make you surprised.
There are several groups of people who cannot perform acoustic habituation, such as people who have autism and schizophrenia syndrome. Therefore, this research was actually carried out to find out more about how to deal properly if a person does not have acoustic habituation. By knowing how the brain regulates acoustic habituation, experts hope to get new ways to help patients with this mental disorder.
Then if I feel shocked easily, is it normal? Or am I having a mental disorder too?
Another thing if you are very easily surprised by any event, whether it's sound stimulation or visual. Even someone jumped or his body trembled in shock at hearing or seeing a stimulus. Often feeling shocked can be a sign that you are experiencing severe stress and if left uninterrupted, it's not impossible that your mental health will get worse.
Actually, like this, when you hear a loud and sudden sound, your body thinks that you just got something unpleasant. This will cause the hormone cortisol to increase in the body. The hormone cortisol is a hormone that regulates stress in the body, the more the amount, the more stress you will be.
Like in newborns. Newborns must adapt to their environment. Hearing foreign voices that he heard from the environment will make him stressful, so the hormone cortisol increases. This is also the reason why babies cry first time at birth. He tried to adapt and respond with tears because he was disturbed at that time.
People who are easily shocked may experience excessive stress than those who are rarely surprised. Some studies say that the shock response occurs because a person does not focus on what he is facing, this can be caused by the pressure that the person gets so he does not pay too much attention and focus around.
