Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field exploring the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals.
Acute stress reaction
Acute stress reaction (also called acute stress disorder, psychological shock, mental shock, or simply shock) is a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying or traumatic event, or witnessing a traumatic event.
Stress-related disorders
Stress is a conscious or unconscious psychological feeling or physical situation which comes as a result of physical or/and mental 'positive or negative pressure' to overwhelm adaptive capacities.
Epinephrine
Epinephrine, also known as adrenalin or adrenaline, is primarily a medication and a hormone.
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone, in the glucocorticoid class of hormones.
Stress (biology)
("Physiological stress" redirects here. It is not to be confused with physical stress.) Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
Occupational burnout
The term burnout in psychology was coined by Herbert Freudenberger in his 1974 Staff burnout, presumably based on the 1960 novel A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene, which describes a protagonist suffering from burnout.
Combat stress reaction
Combat stress reaction (CSR) is a term used within the military to describe acute behavioral disorganization seen by medical personnel as a direct result of the trauma of war.
Worry
Worry refers to the thoughts, images and emotions of a negative nature in a repetitive - uncontrollable manner that results from a proactive cognitive risk analysis made to avoid or solve anticipated potential threats and their potential consequences.
Karōshi
Karōshi (過労死), which can be translated literally as "overwork death" in Japanese, is occupational sudden mortality.
Psychological trauma
Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event.
Emotional labor
Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.
Self-medication
Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses a substance or any exogenous influence to self-administer treatment for physical or psychological ailments.
Universal stress protein
The universal stress protein (USP) domain is a superfamily of conserved genes which can be found in bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa and plants.