Open AccessThe Dangerous Staircase of Stress
Author(s) -
Gösta Alfvén,
Eva Andersson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anesthesia and pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2639-846X
DOI - 10.33425/2639-846x.1053
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , stress (linguistics) , psychology , chronic stress , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics
Chronic negative stress may be the start of a progress of illness, that may end in serious troubles for the affected. In this Perspective we highlight the steps in such a progress, what we call a staircase of stress. This underlines the importance of recognition, understanding and therapeutic measures at an early stage of the stress disorders.