Stress in disaster

ABSTRACT

Hans Selye, considered the dean of stress researchers, describes stress as the body's nonspecific response to any demand placed on it, pleasant or unpleasant. The human organism is adapted to handle the constant stress of day-to-day living. Everything from the loss of a job to making love subjects the individual to a stressful situation. An integral part of life is an individual's ability to cope with stress. Emergency responders, by virtue of the uncertainty and danger of their work, have long been subjected to the adverse effect of high negative stress levels. Stress is a part of human existence and learning to cope with it is part of life. Only when there is an overflow does outside help become necessary. Disaster scenes manifest psychological and physiological response to stress. Is stress continues, the result of the excess release of the hormone thyroxin may manifest further adverse reactions that could last as long as two months