WhitneyWomen Handle Stress Better than Men
January 10th 2011 00:24
Although, it's not 100% proven by any means, but it is thought that women can handle stress better. That means, women can handle more stress better than a man can.
Women tend to express their emotions, which gets them out. More men tend to hold their emotions in. Throughout times, a man who outright shows his emotions is a weak man, but a women who shows her emotions is just considered emotional.
When you are able to relieve your emotions and feelings, you tend to feel better than if you keep your emotions locked up inside. When you hold in your feelings, they tend to just eat at you and enhance.
But, the main reason that women can cope with stress so well is that because of their homones.
When cortisol and epinephrine flow through the bloodstream, oxytocin is released into the brain to calm and promote nuturing and relaxed emotions. The cortisol and epinephrine combine raise blood pressure and increase the body's stress, and the oxytocin is there to help lower and relieve the stress. Men also have oxytocin in their body, but in at a much lower level.
A man's level of oxytocin is secreted at low amounts during times of stress. They pretty much get stuck with the short stick when it comes to their emotions.
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