Cognitive Therapy: Regulate your emotions, manage anxiety and depression, healing post-trauma, treat personality disorders and panic atta (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798568565826)

✓ Do you know how stress can impact your health?

✓ Which are main disorders and illness stress can cause you?

✓ Do you know maternal stress can have effects on the child's development?

✓ How to recognize symptoms to anticipate the possibility of the disease getting worse?

Everyone perceives and reacts differently to daily situations and their emotional reaction will be positive (joy) or negative (fear) or even of total indifference in the case in which perception of the event is neutral.

People's reaction to stress can vary from subject to subject, depending on the circumstances.

The meaning given to a potentially-stressful factor influences the way the event is perceived and the way to face it.

Everyone, at least once in their own life, has experienced stress. It is not surprising that the exposition to stress is associated with a wide range of negative outcomes, such as a reduction of well-being, higher incidence of diseases, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and major depression.

Exposure to extreme stressors determine a strong emotional involvement and a feeling of helplessness can result in serious long-term effects inducing conditions of recurrent memories of trauma, sleep disturbances, physiological hyper-activation and intense psychological distress.

Somatization can generally be defined as the expression of psychological discomfort through physical symptoms, so anything that refers to a constant and inseparable interaction of the psyche (mind) and soma (body).

Furthermore, intense and prolonged stress can have significant effects between the pregnant woman and her fetus: numerous speculations have been made about its nature, however, recent scientific and technological advances have opened up new scenarios allowing to evaluate intrauterine life and better characterize this relationship.

Psychosomatic symptoms involve different body systems, such as:

★ Cardiovascular system

★ Respiratory system

★ Gastrointestinal system

★ Skin system

★ Endocrine system

★ Immune system

★ Urogenital system

★ Musculoskeletal system

... and others...

However, not all individuals develop similar diseases, as some resort to resilience, commonly referred as "the ability to maintain or improve mental health in stressful situations."

The concepts of emotional regulation will be explore in this book, as well as the mentalization, and emotional processing of anger experiences.

If you want to discover more on relationship between stress and diseases, buy this book with confidence... you'll not be disappointed