A Little Human's View by Little Human

Author:Little Human
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Psychological stresses, psychological abuse, cruelty and violence between people

Another category of problems in human life is emotional or psychological stress. This includes actual and anticipated events that distress the human mind – for example: the privations of poverty, such as the feeling of hunger; fear for one’s physical safety; generalised anxiety about one’s future; anxieties about personal finances; major life events, such as the deaths of family members; catastrophic events, such as floods, earthquakes, violence and war; and emotional hurt due to psychological insult or social exclusion.

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On the one hand, we experience painful emotions or feelings due to direct physical impacts on our bodies (such as hunger, illness or assault) – the causes of our feelings are clearly physical.

However, we also suffer emotionally due to psychological reasons, due to what something means to us. Thus, we can feel fear, anxiety, disgust, humiliation or anger not because of any direct physical contact, but due to what a particular experience signifies to us. We attribute meaning to what we perceive and even to what we conceive. An example of the latter is how we can become anxious and even aggressive if we meet someone – or even just think about them – who supports a particular political party, belongs to a certain race or follows a religion we disapprove of. Our emotional response is generated from the mental conception, that is, from the meaning created in our minds. Therefore, our minds can also be the direct source of our psychological stress.

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Anything that is psychologically stressful has been shown to produce chemical changes in the human brain, which, in turn, causes the adrenal glands to produce a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is known as one of the stress hormones because it causes the body’s biochemistry to prepare for action by diverting blood sugar (glucose) to the vital organs, such as the heart and the brain. Emotions, therefore, involve our bodies: our physiology, brain, biochemistry, neurochemistry and the electrochemical impulses of our nervous system. The reason that any kind of emotional stress is unpleasant for us is because it affects our bodies directly, such as the tensing of our muscles and the discomfort in our intestines as the blood supply is reduced there. Thus, any individual may have a poor quality of life, even though they may have sufficient physical resources for living, because what happens in their brain and physiology can significantly affect their emotional life.

What is a good quality of life for a human being? Having sufficient physical resources is part of the answer because not having such resources can be emotionally stressful. In fact, the vast majority of people who have ever lived have had a degree of anxiety, to a greater or to a lesser extent, about securing the physical resources for living. Each human being has to strive to make sure they have the resources to live in the present and into their future.

The efforts that we make to secure a living are, of course, directed by our brains, part of the central nervous system, which is part of the larger nervous system.

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