Summary
Stress is a natural human response that we developed in order to be aware of, and protect ourselves from, danger.
Although it’s often painted as such, stress isn’t always a bad thing. In certain situations, it can help you have the energy or strength to face whatever challenge is coming your way.
But stress, especially chronic stress, can affect your cognitive functioning. Your brain needs to allocate resources to the stressful situation at hand, which can take energy away from other cognitive abilities.
Stress can have negative effects on your physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive health.
When we talk about the cognitive effects of stress, we’re referring to any manner in which stress affects your brain’s ability to complete tasks, both simple and complex.
Cognitive skills can include anything from solving problems to memorizing things.
Here are 5 specific ways that stress can affect your cognitive skills.
Analysis
Stress is something that people fight in their everyday lives and can have a profound impact on their cognitive actions. Stress and pressure can be closely related and some people feel while pressure can have adverse effects it can also have a positive impact. Some people feel as if pressure makes them rise to the occasion and sharpens their skills. However, I will be focusing more on the negative implications. One of the significant problems of MCI is that some of the first responders have zero experience in transport and triaging. Adding no experience on top of the stress that is at hand may lead to a very unsuccessful rescue. These ideas challenge me to think of ways to educate or put tools in the hands of people where no matter their background they are able to help. This would hopefully in turn relieve stress and help save people.
