Acute StressDisorder is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (e.g., witnessing a death or serious accident). As a response to the traumatic event, the individual develops dissociative symptoms.
A time that I experienced acute stress was when I was about to get ran over when crossing the street to go to the store.
Chronic stressis the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period over which an individual perceives he or she has no control. It involves an endocrine system response in which occurs a release of corticosteroids.
I experience chronic stress almost everyday walking home from school when its getting dark because you never know who is watching you or what will happen to you. I need to be careful and aware of the things that can happen to me in a dangerous neighborhood like this.
The Similarities of chronic and acute stress are that they both happen because of a traumatic event. Another similarity is that both chronic and acute stress have a big affect on people's life.
Acute Feedback Loop: The acute stress feedback loop is negative which means that it only cycles once and stops, it only fixes a problem.It starts at the Stimulus which is the change in your body and it leads it to getting the body out of the homeostasis stressor. Then, the Receptor that starts at the Amygdala identifies the threat, which =causes emotional behavior to eye control and the cortex. After that, it sends the message to the Control Center that is the brain/Hypothalamus it makes decisions to send the message through the nervous system or down spine, it then makes its way to the Effector and the Adrenal gland which releases the Adrenaline or Epinephrine hormone, the Pituitary gland and the it releases a hormone called Cortisol. Then it goes back to homeostasis.
Chronic Feedback Loop: In the chronic stress feedback loop it keeps going around and around and the stress never stops. The stimulus is what creates a change in your body and knocks your body out of homeostasis. The receptor is what detects the change and sends a message/signal to the control center. The control center makes the decision about how to fix the problem and tells the effector how to get the body back in homeostasis. The effector is less efficient. The chronic stress feedback loop is positive because once you experience a traumatic event you keep remembering the event over and over again.