Video Analysis Of Can Stress Actually Kill You

Lilly is stressed. Between a dysfunctional family, hectic school life, fights with friends, and hormone imbalances, Lilly feels like her entire world is crashing down around her. She is sick most of the time now; she has a terrible cough, sore throat, and constant headaches. She is snippy with her parents and complains about wanting to just stay in her dark, secluded room all the time. She makes the excuse that she has tons of homework to complete. Her friends have noticed she has been eating less and less at lunch, she rarely raises her hand in class, and she never hangs out on the weekends. Her parents are talking about sending her to a therapist for mental help, and she already has a doctor’s appointment scheduled for next week. What Lilly
AsapSCIENCE is a YouTube channel created and hosted by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, two graduates of the University of Guelph in Biological Science, with the goal of teaching science concepts in quick, easy to understand videos. In their video, “Can Stress Actually Kill You?” they explain the Japanese term Karoshi. This term literally translates to “death by overwork” (Moffit and Brown). This disease is documented specifically in Japan; people in their prime and healthy suddenly experience heart attack and die. Detailed descriptions of the deaths include their arteries being clogged, preventing blood from reaching the heart, resulting in heart attack (Moffit and Brown). Take the example of Martha. Martha is 30 years old. She exercises regularly and eats a strict, healthy diet. She is a lawyer for a very large global company. She is under extreme amounts of stress. One day when walking home from work frantically typing on her phone an email to her boss begging for an extension on her latest, high profile, case, her chest begins to feel like its cramping. She feels her heart being squeezed into pulp. She uncontrollably drops her phone and crouches over. A few bystanders call for emergency help, but it is no use. Martha dies before the ambulance arrives. The autopsy later showed that there were exceptionally high levels of stress hormones throughout her blood stream and that her arteries were so clogged there was a stirring straw’s width left for her blood to trickle through. The stress hormone cortisol also plays a role in terms of an untimely demise because it is what helps the body divert energy where it is needed most in a stress event. As previously stated, when a body is stuck in a constant state of overdrive it can actually degrade the body. When the body becomes so run down from stress,