Heart Disorders

By: Crystal....

What we perceive as stressful has great bearing on how well we manage it. Women that are already overloaded will feel stress more keenly as well. In general, we feel stress when we experience: negative events, uncontrollable or unpredictable events and ambiguous events.

How stressed you become has much to do with your personality as well. For example, if you have a negative outlook on life, you will probably feel more stress than someone with a positive attitude. Some women like to find meaning in uncontrollable events, which gices them a sense of control. Others like the challenge of difficult situations.

Good things come from good stress, even though it feels stressful or bad in the short term. Stress challenges us to stretch ourselves beyond our capabilities, which is what makes us meet deadlines, "push the envelope", and invent creative solutions to our problems. Examples of good stress include challenging projects; positive life-changing events. Essentially, whenever a stressful event triggers emotional, intellectual, or spiritual growth, it is a good stress. It is often not the event as much as it is your response to the event that determines whether it is good or bad stress.

The death of a loved one can sometimes lead to personal growth because we may see something about ourselves we did not see before - new resilience, for example. So even a death can be a good stress, though we grieve and are sad in the short run.

Stress reduction depends entirely on the source of your stress. The only way to control stress that is beyond your control is to modify your response to it. For many women, this takes time and may require some work with a qualified counselor. If you are the source of your own stress because you are too hard on yourself, or are a perfectionist, you need to work on lowering your self-expectations and forgiving yourself for not being perfect.

Increased heart rate, abnormal heart rhythm, shortness of breath, cough, fluid buildup in the body leading to swelling of the feet and ankles or abdomen, weakness, nad fatigue are some of the signs of heart failure. These vary, depending on the severity of the failure and the part of the heart affected. A variety of drugs can be prescribed to widen blood vessels, prevent the buildup of fluids, and strengthen heart contractions. In heart failure, the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. This may be due to heart muscle being weakened by conditions such as high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, or a mechanical failure in the valves. Heart failure does not mean that the heart stops pumping-that's called cardiac arrest-but rather that the heart is not working efficiently.

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Hypertension and heart disease are also believed to be trigg by stress. Before you can look at what you can do to manage your stress, the first order of business is understanding what, exactly, stress is.

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