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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Emotional strain

Emotional strain

  • Emotional stress
  • Emotional distress

Nature

Emotional stress is indicated under conditions of anger, fear, frustration, sadness, betrayal and bereavement.

Claim

Emotional trauma reduces brain size. It shrinks the hippocampus, which plays a large role in memory and learning.

Broader

Stress in human beings
Excellent
Ill-defined health conditions
Presentable
Emotionalism
Presentable
Tension
Unpresentable
Lifestyle tensions
Yet to rate

Narrower

Psychological stress of environmental decline
Presentable

Aggravates

Mental depression
Excellent
Travellers' enhanced risk of disease
Presentable
Tension headaches
Presentable
Hypertension
Presentable
Emotional shock
Unpresentable
Emotional disorders
Unpresentable
Mental fatigue
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Premenstrual syndrome
Presentable
Personal life crises
Presentable
Communications stress
Presentable
Bereavement
Presentable
Emotional insecurity
Unpresentable
Emotional crises
Unpresentable

Related

Mental tension
Presentable
Disharmonies of the body
Presentable

Strategy

Reducing emotional instability
Yet to rate
Communicating emotion
Yet to rate

Value

Strain
Yet to rate
Overstrain
Yet to rate
Distress
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Psychology » Stress
  • Societal problems » Emergencies
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G2738
    DOCID
    11727380
    D7NID
    140124
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020