When we are upset about something, we feel distress
Acute Stress Reaction (ASR) is a transient condition that often develops in response to a traumatic event. Traumatic events are events that cause a person to fear that he/she may die or be seriously injured or harmed. These events also can be traumatic when the person witnesses them happening to others. Good things – having a baby, getting a new job, or winning an award-can be stressors. Obviously, bad things can be stressors as well. We feel distress when the resources demanded of us outstrip the resources we have. Distress is a negative emotional reaction to the output of resources (stress). Sometimes distress does not find a particular anchor and the person is just upset by themselves and may just have to wait until the emotional storm has blown itself out. Acute Stress Disorder causes significant distress or life impairment. Symptoms typically begin immediately after the trauma, but persistence for at least 3 days and up to a month. It is not due to a drug, medication, or general medical condition. Focused distress. When we are distressed about something in particular, we have a focus for our emotions, and the energy of distress may get displaced into more directed emotions such as anger or desperate hope. Distress often seeks an anchor, for example where betrayal leads to a reaction against the betrayer. Distress is. When we are upset about something, we feel distress, a generalized sensation of discomfort and emotional arousal. Distress is the opposite of contentment. Both are general emotional states, one being negatively aroused whilst the other is positively calmed. Contentment comes from goals being achieved, whilst distress occurs when we lose what we have or expect. ACUTE STRESS DISORDER Developed specific stress symptoms (intrusion symptoms, negative mood, dissociative symptoms, avoidance symptoms, arousal symptoms) lasting 3 days to 1 month after exposure to a severe trauma. Bad stress, or distress, is when the good stress becomes to much to bear or cope with. Tension builds, there is no longer any fun in the challenge, there seems to be no relief, no end in sight. This is the kind of stress most of us are familiar with and this is the kind of stress that leads to poor decision making.
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what is a distressed reaction