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WHAT IS STRESS?
Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you sense danger—whether it’s real or imagined—the body’s defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction or the “stress response.” The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, it helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life—giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid a car accident. Stress can also help you rise to meet challenges. It’s what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, sharpens your concentration when you’re attempting the game-winning free throw, or drives you to study for an exam when you’d rather be watching TV. But beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your health, mood, productivity, relationships, and your quality of life. If you frequently find yourself feeling frazzled and overwhelmed, it’s time to take action to bring your nervous system back into balance. You can protect yourself—and improve how you think and feel—by learning how to recognize the signs and symptoms of chronic stress and taking steps to reduce its harmful effects.
SOURCE: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Stress- A feeling that every single adult can relate to. Stress starts in your life over a small issue or thing but becomes unmanageable over the time, dribbling in many parts of your life. Stress rips off your peace of mind, lessens your potential to function, ultimately leading to depression and various other health issues, because of your weak immune system. And if you don’t know how to relax and calm your mood or deal with the worst parts of your routine, then cannabis is the best way to tackle it. With more and more states being legalized for marijuana usage whether recreational or medicinally, the majority of the population is going for a medical marijuana card with the hope of managing their disorders related to stress. So let’s learn how marijuana can be advantageous, if used properly, in relieving stress.
WHAT HAPPENS IF ONE IS UNDER STRESS? Stress can be caused by a number of factors which include your personal thoughts, environmental changes and bodily changes.Thoughts about future aspects of career, financial situation, crime and violence happening around and the political climate are some of the major common reasons of stress. People generally feel disturbed and unfocused in their daily routine tasks, who are heavily curbed with tension in their life. And in the long run, other functions of our body get affected. This leads to difficulty in breathing, headaches and comes in the risk of having more diseases and increased blood pressure and higher heart rate.
HOW TO BREAK THE STRESSFUL MONOTONY? In order to curb the stress level, it becomes important for us to learn about how to remove this tool navigating in our day to day life routine. More importantly, if you are actually looking for your breathing space then you must find unique ways to break the stressful monotony in your life. People generally try a number of ways for relieving their stress levels. These include taking up hobbies or watching entertainment series, doing physical exercises, or simply having a glass of alcohol. Out of all these options used by people around the globe, use of cannabis for treating stress, topped the list.People now have access to medical marijuana for dealing with their stress, anxiety and tension as it has been widely legalized now.
HOW MARIJUANA HELPS IN FIGHTING WITH STRESS? THC, the active ingredient of cannabis, which is known for its psychoactive properties, is also responsible for reducing stress. However it provides instant relief to users if taken in small doses. When a person intakes cannabis, the active components react with the receptors CB1 and CB2 present in our body. These receptors regulate the hormones in our body and thus balance or boost the overall senses. And if used regularly, you feel less anxious. CBD, the other compound of cannabis is also known to have numerous potentials in relieving the stress hormones. It helps in reducing the transitory degrees of anxiety along with depression. Cannabis plants, like most of the flowers, have aromatic oils in them. These are called terpenes. Caryophyllene and Linalool are two types of terpenes that help in reducing stress.
THE TIPS Do track what kind of cannabis you are using and what are the end results, while treating your stress levels. Keep a record of the strains used, the amount you are consuming and whether you are having a feeling of high or not? If you actually want to benefit from the medicinal uses of cannabis, then you must go for micro-dosing. The recommended dosage to start with in micro-dosing is 2.5 mg. With this you don’t get the feeling of too high. Most of the people generally opt for smoke-free ways in terms of cannabis consumption. You can instead go for vaping or consuming THC through edibles or capsules or tinctures.