Anxiety. Anxiety attack with physiological components, such as constriction of the stomach or tightness in the chest.

Anxiety. The terms anxiety and state of stress are relatively synonymous and we can just as easily say “I am experiencing anxiety about such a situation” as “such a situation causes me stress”. However, specialist usage tends to reserve the word anxiety to refer to the mental state of a generally worried person, whether there is a stressor or not. While, on the one hand, repeated stress can escalate into permanent anxiety, people with anxiety are generally more susceptible to stressors and their physiological stress responses last longer.

Burn out. State of physical and mental exhaustion resulting from the stress experienced in a demanding professional context.

Nervousness, nerves. Nervousness is an over-arousal of the nervous system and can have several causes. To describe a feeling of stress, we sometimes use an expression like “being on edge”. Stress does not result from a disturbance of the nervous system, but it stimulates the sympathetic (excitatory) counterpart of this system, hence the nervous imbalances. In addition, stress reactions first affect parts of the body closely linked to the nervous system, and more particularly the digestive system.

Somatisation. Transformation of mental disorders (anxiety, anxiety, stress, etc.) into bodily symptoms (for example, upset stomach). Someone who “somatizes” (from the Greek sôma = body) therefore makes an emotional state physical. Psychosomatic medicine studies and treats these disturbances caused by somatization.

Stress. A reflex psychophysiological reaction of the organism in demanding situations, which require adaptation.

Post-traumatic stress. Officially called “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” or PTSD, the discomfort affects people who have experienced a violent event, whether as victims or bystanders. It includes several symptoms, including intrusive memories, repetitive dreams and a certain emotional detachment, as well as physiological manifestations of stress that are attributed to an overactive nervous system, such as sleep problems, irritability, difficulties. concentration, hypervigilance and exaggerated startle reactions.