TMZ recently reported breaking news that, gasp, Britney Spears received a parking tickets and ran out of gas all in the same day! The online comments from TMZ’s post were mostly from concerned fans wondering if the judgmental media like TMZ could push Britney over the edge, maybe even to suicide. One fan wrote, “When someone is that close to the edge and you run such headlines, you only help to push them off further. Harvey Levin was on Larry King going on about respecting privacy during difficult times. This girl is under so much stress, irrespective of whether YOU deem her to be a bad mother or not, there is no need to push someone towards a suicide attempt. How much more do you think she can take” The buzzword lately when it comes to celebrities in trouble, is stress. However, stress affects everyone and it needs to be taken seriously.
Donald Trump recently proclaimed that Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney were all under ‘varying amounts of stress.” And he wanted to get them on his show. It is true that most people underestimate the power of stress on a persons mind, body and spirit.
Here's a refresher course on stress for those of you who didn’t major in health back in college. Stress is something that affects everyone’s lives. There is good stress known at eustress, and bad stress. An example of eustress is when you are getting married, having a baby, starting a new job or moving into a new house. Not negative events, but still very stress inducing. Bad stress events are getting divorced, losing a loved one or battling with an addiction. As we can recall, Ms. Spears is undergoing several forms of stress right now and it has to be severely affecting her everyday life.
There is short-term stress and long-term stress. Studies have shown that there are two stress situations, short-term stress in which a person undergoes a mild to severely stressful event, and then shortly after it returns back to a neutral state of stress. An example could be going for a series of job interviews in a week, but when the week is through you are hired and can soon get back to ‘normal’. The other type of stress is the most dangerous to your health-long term stress. It is the case where certain stress inducers simply stick around for a while. Examples are going through a long divorce, having an abusive relationship, or having an overly stressful schedule for an extended period of time.
Another outcome of stress is higher levels of cortisol in your body than normal. Side effects of cortisol include higher blood pressure and blood sugar as well as increased fat storage in the abdomen.
Celebrities and everyday people need to monitor their stress and make life changes as needed. For more about this topic visit www.britneyscomeback.com.
