stressors

Everyone is different. Stressors can combine to reduce tolerance to stress even if they are not sufficient to trigger a stress reaction.

Coping with multiple risk factors can be greater than coping with a single severe event.

industrial stress
Stress in the city leaves us geared up to confront danger. The risks of crowds and fast moving vehicles are almost impossible to assess in the milliseconds available as they flash by. These are potentially deadly. Most civilians cope by suppressing their natural stress response, just as soldiers learn to suppress their survival instincts after being taught the reflex of advancing into incoming fire.

Urban living also plays out against a backdrop of low level stressors like noise, overwork, poverty, bullying, isolation, and media violence that have a slow cumulative effect.

Long periods of low level stress from poverty, noise, discomfort or caring for a demented or disturbed parent even if they are tolerable for a short time.can eventually become become overwhelming as the effects accumulate. These events can be traumatising.

copyright (C) John Brasted 2008
updated 11/06/11

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