Anxiety and stress can be helpful

Acute stress and anxiety associated with a positive impact on the state of the human body, say Norwegian researchers from the University of Bergen. It turns out that depression is the same risk factors as smoking, but the concern, by contrast, can benefit the human body.

During the four-year study, the experts examined the data 60 thousand people who had marked symptoms of depression and, in particular, worry and anxiety. As a result, analysis of available information shows that the Depression led to the development of serious diseases just as often as smoking tobacco. This anxiety has a positive effect on the body - as a result of short-term stress strengthens the immune and nervous systems, improve the cardiovascular system, lowers cholesterol.

Moreover it was found that anxiety has stimulated activity of the brain, and people who are experienced in connection with any of the events occurring in their lives, much less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease in old age.

According to researchers, short-term stress and the associated anxiety can be useful to humans. However, in this case can not prevent the development of depression, because it instantly negate all the positive qualities of these mental states.

Experts believe that their discovery will make the world a new look at the treatment of depression - in their view, this is a mental disorder can be treated, paying for the benefit of its earliest stages.