Dubai: Small doses of stress can help an individual perform better, but it causes major health damage after certain limits, said a visiting medical consultant.
“Stress even acts as a motivating force but beyond a certain point, it stops being helpful and becomes ‘silent killer’,” said Dr Firdous Jahan, Consultant Family Physician at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) – a well-known non-profit health care facility in Pakistan.
Symptoms
In her lecture, organised by the AKUH Representative Office as part of its programme ‘Signs, Symptoms and Care’ at Ismaili Centre, Dubai, Dr Jahan spoke on stress management and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. She defined stress as, “pressure that exceeds one’s perceived ability to cope.”
She said that one third of mental and physical illnesses are caused by stress, either directly or indirectly. “Too many positive or negative changes occurring in a short span of time can tax an individual’s adaptive capacity leading to increased susceptibility to illnesses,” she noted.
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