My Hippocampal Vehemence!!!!

Whfff….Stress finally I hope to hear less of it once the sem is over…no doubt never before in my life did I get to hear so much of this word.
“Our motive is to create stress” … “u’ll be stressed even further” well I think people in my college have debated the (il)logic behind this too many times; so perhaps I won’t spend my time on a fruitless exercise. Instead I’d offer my two cents on stress as I see it physiologically.
To begin with I picked up my OB book it gave the following gyan on stress: “A pattern of emotional states and physiological reactions occurring in response to demands from within or outside an organization”.
I take this organization to be the human body, so stress here is any reactions occurring in response to demands from within or outside the body. Day to day stress is what arises from within the body when u walk, eat or when u fall ill. Stress is not all bad…yes we all agree. The basic physiological understanding to this is the concept of allostasis- our body maintains stability in response to day to day change, this imparts some balance against this change.
So when does stress become bad- when this allostatic load turns into an overload. The body has a hormone called the epinephrine better known as the stress hormone or even fright, flight and fight hormone. The other group is the cortisols which again helps the body adapt to stress, the epinephrine offers an immediate adaptability within seconds while cortisol upto an hour, beyond that the studies prove it may have a detrimental effect on the brain.
All this just proves that the human physiology is best designed to be exposed to small stresses and that too for short periods of time, as was required by the primitive hunter n survivor but in no way is the physiology so designed to take you continuously without sleep, with the load of deadlines and targets. The worst part is The Hippocampus bears a major part of this brunt, the part responsible for your new memories and your emotions. No doubt such illogical stress may turn off ur emotions and may turn u into nothing less than a target seeking deadline meeting machine.
Or the worse may happen u end up being a hedonistic doesn’t give a damn attitude loser. Any ways the loss is urs- the stressed outs’ and not of the stressor….so where do we draw the line, when life becomes synonymous with stress and my cortisol refuses to be my partner beyond few hours, all I can do to prevent being bowled over by stress is to look for a stress buster- today it was writing …I did that. After all I need to save my hippocampus or else “My Hippocampal Vehemence” may all go for a toss …….