Academic stress causes serious diseases

Diabetes, hypertension, obesity, anxiety, sleep disorders, strokes, addiction to legal and illegal drugs, alopecia, and shingles are some of the diseases related to academic stress , according to Eduardo Calixto , head of neurobiology of the Ramón de la Fuente National Psychiatry Institute , who said that it is regrettable that stress triggers are so normalized nowadays.

Experts told EL UNIVERSAL that currently, stress triggers have normalized, which hinders medical attention needed by school children, adolescents, and adults.

“We could change these stories of young people committing suicide because their stress levels are so high that they can’t find a solution. We have a lot to learn regarding triggers, we are not aware and sometimes those who tolerate these situations are called cowards or crybabies,” said Calixto González .

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He added that by being exposed to adrenaline situations , students have higher insulin resistance , they have reduced serotonin t ransmission, develop a lack of sleep , and osteoporosis .

“The brain perceives information of hormone change in daily activities; being exposed to episodes of academic stress generates obesity because students change their eating habits , they have anxiety and eat products with high-calorie content; this makes them start a diabetes process. Stress also affects sleep cycles, causes osteoporosis, and eases the apparition of immune diseases, ” he warned.

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, a researcher of the Pedagogical Durango University , pointed out that the main reasons why students get stressed are exams, homework overload, and the teacher’s personality, but instead of promoting knowledge it generates memory loss and learning difficulties .

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“Academic stress affects the learning process of students as well as their well.being. Studies have shown that students get stressed and don’t know how to control themselves when there are surprise exams when an exam will have a higher impact in the final grade, or due to too much homework. What happens is that instead of them being able to retain the necessary knowledge, stress blocks it ,” he explains.

For his part, Gerardo Medina Gálvez , coordinator of Medical Programs of the Direction of Medical Benefits of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) , explained that stress harms the body and that one of the results can be the detonation of herpes zoster , known as shingles, so an adequate treatment of physical and emotional stress can help prevent this painful disease.

He highlighted that this disease is usually benign although painful, however, there are more serious manifestations that can affect any part of the face, the eyes, the cornea, and even the brain (viral encephalitis) and cause severe health problems .

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“Chronic fatigue, extreme tiredness, or anxiety are conditions that undermine the immune system, so this condition can develop,” he said.

Lastly, the organization Save the Children emphasized the importance of preventing, detecting, and correctly attending diseases and mental disorders in children and teenagers. “In the case of Mexico, millions of children and teenagers live domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, school bullying, or negligence that cause toxic stress and, as a consequence, harms their mental health .”

The NGO pointed out that this kind of stress causes a higher probability of delay in cognitive development and affects socialization processes . In addition, adults who experienced these problems as children, also have more probabilities of experience health problems like alcoholism and other addictions, depression, heart diseases, and diabetes.

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