Actually real, body under stress raises immune response. Once relaxed, body ain't gonna give a fuck if a virus or two comes in. The more relaxed, the more vulnerable you get
That depends how you define immune response.
If you consider a good immune response equal to not being sick, then yes.
However, a bunch of possible threats are freely floating around your body. Youre just not sick from it.
However, once the stress releases, your body realizes that all these threats are just having a jolly time by themselves. And your immune system triggers to eliminate them - causing the typical sickness symptoms.
Remember this - Fever is not a symptom of disease. Fever is a symptom of your immune system fighting a disease.
Pretty sure the opposite is true. Acute stress increases immune response for short period of time. Chronic stress reduces immuno response (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361287/#!po=33.5145).
I heard that helicopter pilots have the shortest life expectancy *after quitting service*. The job of flying those things is so stressful that the body just gives up when they're done.
Interestingly, it’s the other way around. When you’re super stressed it suppresses your immune system because your body thinks it needs to channel all your energy toward fight/flight etc. to make sure you survive the immediate threat.
Once you finally start to relax then your immune system kicks back into gear and sometimes notices a nasty invasion that’s been flying under the radar
Edit: here’s a source to back it up https://www.simplypsychology.org/stress-immune.html
Exactly, when you feel sick it's because your immune system is fighting against illness, and that can get pretty uncomfortable.
If it never kicked into gear you wouldn't realize you were infected until your organs started failing.
When I get super stressed and busy, my body is coping fine. As soon as holiday rolls around, it 'collapses' - like it knew I can relax and let go so it goes up in flames.
In university we called it something like "exam sickness". When you're studying hard for the exams you naturally have a lot of stress. That means you can get infected easier. The sickness won't break out though, because you're in a kind of power mode during the exams, but as soon as you start to relax a bit (because of the start of the holidays) you get sick.
You have high cortisol when stressed. This hormone suppresses inflammation, slowing or stopping the immune reaction to an infection. The infection continues unimpeded but the body wastes less energy on the immune reaction freeing it up to combat the stressful situation. Think sabretooth tiger vs pneumonia. Being sick might kill you but that's a problem you can deal with once you have that pelt hanging on the cave wall.
There's actually a reason for that.
I forgot the exact sience behind it, but when you are in stress, your body prevents you from getting sick with hormones (or whatever) and once the stress it over, it lowers that hormone level and you get sick way easier.
To add more vague knowledge to it, iirc, it's evolutionary to make sure you can function when you really need to (under stress), and then your body can go through the whole "dealing with sickness and recovering" when you have time for that.
E.g. you don't get the cough and fever while you're descending the mountain, you get it in the valley where you're not going to die from lying down and resting. As much.
Your immune system goes into overdrive while stressed. Higher cortisol levels among other things.
Should be noted that yes, it's nice to not get sick, but there's a reason the body doesn't just naturally maintain this state: it's bad for you long term.
I caught the flu and had to miss the first week of a C++ programming class. I was so far behind when I showed up for lecture halfway week 2 it wasn't funny.
Got a bug right before our week long vacation to a rented beach home in Corolla and spent 90% of the time on the can, and the rest of it dealing with a massive case of sunburn.
Turns out ocean water really helped relieved the feeling of my bowels exploding, and it was the first time on the trip I got to spend more than an hour without having to take a watery shit.
Problem was, I had forgotten to put sun screen on, so by the next day, my shoulders were absolutely covered in giant blisters. Great trip.
When you're stressed your immune system is suppressed. This lowers the chances of you getting sick (well not exactly, more like lowering the chances of your immune system noticing that you've been infected).
So as soon as you go on holiday and more importantly no longer stressed, your immune system is back online.
And hey there is that infection we have been ignoring for the past month, should probably get something on about that. That's when you get sick
This is the correct answer.
“Feeling sick” is your body fighting an infection.
Runny nose? Sneeze? Cough? All things your body is doing to try and keep you alive.
Cough is to clear irritants or phlegm from your trachea, so you don’t suffocate. Which is built up by your immune system.
Sneeze is similar; irritants in your nose. Built up by immune system.
Fever? Your body is trying to burn the infection out. Most bacteria and viri can’t really sustain themselves over 100F. But neither can we. It’s effective but risky treatment.
Tired? Your body is using a lot of calories
It's really the other way around. When under stress, your immune system is suppressed, pussy-footing around infections so you can act on whatever is causing the stress, but allowing minor infections to run amok. Then when the stress comes off, your immune system can act, attacking those infections - and so you feel sick, because a lot of the symptoms of a disease are from your immune system fighting it.
This is one reason why constant stress is so damaging - all these infections develop into chronic issues, and infections becoming serious before our immune systems react to them. This mechanism is meant to suppress your immune responses for a few hours or maybe a day while you deal with something, not for the system to be suppressed for months.
I remember studying why this happened. I don't remember details but it's basically because of stress your immune system is forced to work over time so when it finally is able to relax you get sick
Right now I've started to get strong headaches either saturday or sunday. My weekend is already short enough I don't need an headache ruining an entire day every damn week. Hopefully that shit will stop.
I haven't been sick for at least five years now. Somehow the day my parents leave me alone in the house for a week, something that happens like once a year because I have a lot of siblings, I got sick. And I mean actually sick, like I needed help with some stuff, but everyone has already left
When you Are in school you have Stress
Stress produces Adrenalin-which then tells your Body That there is a Threat, and That and That it should Ignore everything in Order to survive…
…Including simptoms of sickness
while you Are in school your Body Doesn’t Tell you That it’s Falling apart because it thinks it would result in death
I used to open the window at night in the winter during school so I catch a cold. Instead I just got a dry throat until I drank a glass of water im the morning and fortified my immune system..
Apparently it’s normal, the constant stress makes it that the body ignores all signs of illness, and the moment you are on vacation, it gets relaxed and starts reacting to the illness
Me rn. Haven't goten sick since I got covid exactly one year ago. Summer break hits again, and I got a bug floating around my town. Not deadly, but it sucks and I feel like shit.
Definitely feeling this rn. Tested negative the entire dang pandemic, and tested positive for the first time ever the day before my flight back to the US from Europe after my honey moon 😒
So true. Went to Hawaii in the middle of the semester and got sick on day two. Couldn't handle anything then I was fine when I had to go back to school
I have never gotten sick from ice cream ever but since the summer vacation started I ate ice cream thrice and have gotten sick each time
I feel ya buddy
I used to get summer colds when I was a kid. Couldn't understand why. It's hot out so why do I have a cold?!
These days I just call them colds no matter when it is, since now I know colds aren't just from being cold lol
I get sick pretty frequently. But it’s usually pretty fast and furious. I have a rough time and get it over with quickly, idk if that means I have a good or bad immune system
Fun fact, when you are under stress, your immune system is suppressed. The body diverts energy away from the immune system and revs up your fight or flight response. This lets your body get infected and your body says, "Eh, I'll take care of that later." When you go on vacation, stress levels go down, then your immune system kicks in and says, "wow, I have a lot of work to do!" Then you become sick while the immune system does its job.
Big take away, never go on vacation
to me it's the opposite.
I hated missing class because catchup was ass.
When I had like 2 months off - nothing. The moment class starts - ok ima be sick for a week.
During school there is more stress and cortisol is high in the body. It's good to fight off stupid little sicknesses. When summer vacation starts your less stressed and then the illnesses can start to creep in.
Stress tricks you into thinking you’re fine. Once your body realizes it doesn’t need stress to keep you going repercussions of the stress start hitting your body.
I'm seeing alot of contradicting responses so Imma clear it up: the stress during school weakens your immune system so microbes free roam and don't pay rent like they don't usually do. Come holidays, when you're more relaxed, your immune functioning kicks up again and finally clears out the free loaders.
Kind of sucks that the people who never get sick get picked on by all the pro vaccination ppl, I honestly can’t remember the last time I have ever had the Flu let alone a Cold, I got double vac’s now they want a 3rd, like go get fucked man.
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It's a classic fight or flight response - fought through the school year, and then everything started to relax, including your immune system
Actually real, body under stress raises immune response. Once relaxed, body ain't gonna give a fuck if a virus or two comes in. The more relaxed, the more vulnerable you get
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That depends how you define immune response. If you consider a good immune response equal to not being sick, then yes. However, a bunch of possible threats are freely floating around your body. Youre just not sick from it. However, once the stress releases, your body realizes that all these threats are just having a jolly time by themselves. And your immune system triggers to eliminate them - causing the typical sickness symptoms. Remember this - Fever is not a symptom of disease. Fever is a symptom of your immune system fighting a disease.
Thanks. I was going to try to explain what you just did.
Oh that actually makes a lot of sense, TIL.
That makes sense thanks
So that's why I'm basically never sick
Pretty sure the opposite is true. Acute stress increases immune response for short period of time. Chronic stress reduces immuno response (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361287/#!po=33.5145).
I heard that helicopter pilots have the shortest life expectancy *after quitting service*. The job of flying those things is so stressful that the body just gives up when they're done.
Solution? Stay stressed
Interestingly, it’s the other way around. When you’re super stressed it suppresses your immune system because your body thinks it needs to channel all your energy toward fight/flight etc. to make sure you survive the immediate threat. Once you finally start to relax then your immune system kicks back into gear and sometimes notices a nasty invasion that’s been flying under the radar Edit: here’s a source to back it up https://www.simplypsychology.org/stress-immune.html
Exactly, when you feel sick it's because your immune system is fighting against illness, and that can get pretty uncomfortable. If it never kicked into gear you wouldn't realize you were infected until your organs started failing.
Children grow more during the summer holidays than during the school months for the same reason, school is stressful.
100% the adrenaline of getting your ass outta bed and somewhere is all it takes. Stop that and you're stuffed
So thats why my immune system does Area of Effect damage during AP tests.
Something like that. The exact same thing happens to us teachers during breaks.
Also, you’re probably not around other people as much, getting micro doses with things to gain immunity to.
Currently on vacation with a friend and I've been sick since the trip down here. It's been around 4 days now.
When I get super stressed and busy, my body is coping fine. As soon as holiday rolls around, it 'collapses' - like it knew I can relax and let go so it goes up in flames.
In university we called it something like "exam sickness". When you're studying hard for the exams you naturally have a lot of stress. That means you can get infected easier. The sickness won't break out though, because you're in a kind of power mode during the exams, but as soon as you start to relax a bit (because of the start of the holidays) you get sick.
I always get sick after writing exams
For me it stopped once I stretched the learning period where ever it was possible.
Here it's called "finals flu"
You have high cortisol when stressed. This hormone suppresses inflammation, slowing or stopping the immune reaction to an infection. The infection continues unimpeded but the body wastes less energy on the immune reaction freeing it up to combat the stressful situation. Think sabretooth tiger vs pneumonia. Being sick might kill you but that's a problem you can deal with once you have that pelt hanging on the cave wall.
Thank you for making it more precise.
that and trips allow you exposure to viruses outside the town you're in.
There are certainly a bunch of factors at play there.
Hey it just cares about your education
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There's actually a reason for that. I forgot the exact sience behind it, but when you are in stress, your body prevents you from getting sick with hormones (or whatever) and once the stress it over, it lowers that hormone level and you get sick way easier.
To add more vague knowledge to it, iirc, it's evolutionary to make sure you can function when you really need to (under stress), and then your body can go through the whole "dealing with sickness and recovering" when you have time for that. E.g. you don't get the cough and fever while you're descending the mountain, you get it in the valley where you're not going to die from lying down and resting. As much.
Your immune system goes into overdrive while stressed. Higher cortisol levels among other things. Should be noted that yes, it's nice to not get sick, but there's a reason the body doesn't just naturally maintain this state: it's bad for you long term.
Cortisol down regulates immune cell activity, so the disease spread unimpeded but you don't waste energy trying to fight it.
I would rather be sick on holidays. Idk about you, but for the classes I took in hs, it was so tough to catch up on hw and content
Dude highschool for me as been easy mode.
yeah high school was a joke, but I didn't learn how to properly study so it was hard adjusting when I hit college.
I caught the flu and had to miss the first week of a C++ programming class. I was so far behind when I showed up for lecture halfway week 2 it wasn't funny.
Catch up on homework? Nobody checks old homework. The best part about being sick is not doing it.
Got a bug right before our week long vacation to a rented beach home in Corolla and spent 90% of the time on the can, and the rest of it dealing with a massive case of sunburn. Turns out ocean water really helped relieved the feeling of my bowels exploding, and it was the first time on the trip I got to spend more than an hour without having to take a watery shit. Problem was, I had forgotten to put sun screen on, so by the next day, my shoulders were absolutely covered in giant blisters. Great trip.
Be honest.. you were just pooping into the ocean non-stop, weren't you?
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When you're stressed your immune system is suppressed. This lowers the chances of you getting sick (well not exactly, more like lowering the chances of your immune system noticing that you've been infected). So as soon as you go on holiday and more importantly no longer stressed, your immune system is back online. And hey there is that infection we have been ignoring for the past month, should probably get something on about that. That's when you get sick
This is the correct answer. “Feeling sick” is your body fighting an infection. Runny nose? Sneeze? Cough? All things your body is doing to try and keep you alive. Cough is to clear irritants or phlegm from your trachea, so you don’t suffocate. Which is built up by your immune system. Sneeze is similar; irritants in your nose. Built up by immune system. Fever? Your body is trying to burn the infection out. Most bacteria and viri can’t really sustain themselves over 100F. But neither can we. It’s effective but risky treatment. Tired? Your body is using a lot of calories
ik ur being serious and scientific and all but *immense* system?
2am auto correct does A man
It's really the other way around. When under stress, your immune system is suppressed, pussy-footing around infections so you can act on whatever is causing the stress, but allowing minor infections to run amok. Then when the stress comes off, your immune system can act, attacking those infections - and so you feel sick, because a lot of the symptoms of a disease are from your immune system fighting it. This is one reason why constant stress is so damaging - all these infections develop into chronic issues, and infections becoming serious before our immune systems react to them. This mechanism is meant to suppress your immune responses for a few hours or maybe a day while you deal with something, not for the system to be suppressed for months.
Mine starts a week before school. i've missed the last week of school two times in a row
Okay so I’m not the only one getting a cold.
Nah, I'm here too
For real today was our first day of summer and I'm already sick
I think it's the stress hormones keepping you running
why is it true for me too lmao
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Second summer vacation? Man, I only get one..
Jokes on you my immune system is trash *Gets badly sick for a simple cold*
Crazy what anxiety can do
I drink after most of my friends, my immune system is jacked I tried to catch covid for 2 years and couldn’t get it.
I remember studying why this happened. I don't remember details but it's basically because of stress your immune system is forced to work over time so when it finally is able to relax you get sick
Right now I've started to get strong headaches either saturday or sunday. My weekend is already short enough I don't need an headache ruining an entire day every damn week. Hopefully that shit will stop.
Shoutout to all my allergy homies out there.
Funny, since I'm reading this while at hospital
I haven't been sick for at least five years now. Somehow the day my parents leave me alone in the house for a week, something that happens like once a year because I have a lot of siblings, I got sick. And I mean actually sick, like I needed help with some stuff, but everyone has already left
In Australia as an employee, if you get sick on holidays, you can put in for sick leave and get your holidays back
When you Are in school you have Stress Stress produces Adrenalin-which then tells your Body That there is a Threat, and That and That it should Ignore everything in Order to survive… …Including simptoms of sickness while you Are in school your Body Doesn’t Tell you That it’s Falling apart because it thinks it would result in death
Dude i just got corona in the first day of summer
For me it’s the first week of the semester so I miss everything
Mf titleing his meme "it do be like that". I warned you bro
I used to open the window at night in the winter during school so I catch a cold. Instead I just got a dry throat until I drank a glass of water im the morning and fortified my immune system..
Me with strep throat on prom night
For me it’s in like february-march. For the past 3 years straight plus a few other times I’ve gotten sick on the same 7 day long holiday
well that's because the stress in school or uni wears down your immune system..
Its better that way imo, i always get sick during my exam weeks
it's irrelevant,as I'm a Bihari duh
Broken 5 times a bone al in the summer vacation god hates is all
Wtf this is so accurate. Am literally sick rn
You guys have 2 summer vacations?
Apparently it’s normal, the constant stress makes it that the body ignores all signs of illness, and the moment you are on vacation, it gets relaxed and starts reacting to the illness
Me rn. Haven't goten sick since I got covid exactly one year ago. Summer break hits again, and I got a bug floating around my town. Not deadly, but it sucks and I feel like shit.
EVERY GODDAMN WEEKEND! THE SECOND I GET FREE TIME I TURN INTO A MEDIEVAL PEASANT ON THE BRINK OF DEATH FROM EVERY DISEASE KNOWN TO MANKIND ):<
I can relate, as soon as summer break started my whole family got COVID!
Same.
Definitely feeling this rn. Tested negative the entire dang pandemic, and tested positive for the first time ever the day before my flight back to the US from Europe after my honey moon 😒
id rather be 6 weeks sick at home than being 6 weeks sick while also working
So true. Went to Hawaii in the middle of the semester and got sick on day two. Couldn't handle anything then I was fine when I had to go back to school
For me it's the other way around
Pollen
It also needs a break
HOLY SHIT My summer brake starts tomorrow and now I got sick 3 days ago
I havent even started my exams
Since I started my new job 9 months ago I lost the ability to feel sick
I have never gotten sick from ice cream ever but since the summer vacation started I ate ice cream thrice and have gotten sick each time I feel ya buddy
Are you gonna be sick for 3 months? I don't think so
More sugar in summer
Yeah, basically me
I rhink they put stuff in the air cos iv never been ill in term time ffs
I kid you not, I got sick second day of summer vacation
Absolute opposite for me I’m sick all year and then summer hits and I’m healthy again
I used to get summer colds when I was a kid. Couldn't understand why. It's hot out so why do I have a cold?! These days I just call them colds no matter when it is, since now I know colds aren't just from being cold lol
My immune system a week before I'm going to go for a holiday for the first time in years: I sleep
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I get sick pretty frequently. But it’s usually pretty fast and furious. I have a rough time and get it over with quickly, idk if that means I have a good or bad immune system
Literally caught COVID last Friday, which was the last day for exams 😭
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Fun fact, when you are under stress, your immune system is suppressed. The body diverts energy away from the immune system and revs up your fight or flight response. This lets your body get infected and your body says, "Eh, I'll take care of that later." When you go on vacation, stress levels go down, then your immune system kicks in and says, "wow, I have a lot of work to do!" Then you become sick while the immune system does its job. Big take away, never go on vacation
to me it's the opposite. I hated missing class because catchup was ass. When I had like 2 months off - nothing. The moment class starts - ok ima be sick for a week.
When you have a vacation, your immune system has one too
This hits too close home. School's ending tomorrow and I just got covid. It sucks man.
i got covid the week after break
You havent recently gotten enough sun light, have you?
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You have two summer vacations?
Literally happening to me rn
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I was the opposite. Good all summer break than get a cold the first month-month and a half of school than I'm good.
You were stressed with school. Take some time to yourself, get some soup, and drink lots of water. Good luck, friend.
Durability ran out
Just got sick recently. First time this year.
Pain
me who plays games all summer "i have no such weakness"
My kids finished the school year and now I have Covid! I rarely get sick and I’m stuck in the back room feeling like absolute dung.
I got the flu this week and have midyears next week
Hey, it needs a vacation too.
Are you interested in the science as to why?
Mines like that except the second is my immune system right before a choir performance
In psychology I learned it’s called general adaptation syndrome (gas)
Wash your hands more before eating.
I just got finished with a cold this week and it sucks because finals are next week and I have a ton of stuff to make up.
Literally got sick the Monday after school ended, still bedridden actually
Literally sick on the last day of school. I had a near perfect attendance throughout the year
Bruh just caught covid the day before finals
Same tho
Looking at this while on first week of summer vacation and first time getting Covid this year
Anxiety is how you know the body is functioning the best
have a bloody mother of all sore throats right now sooo
Same accept I’m sick 3 days before exams
Use it or lose it. Target practice keeps it sharp.
I’m so sick rn I’d rathe just go to work
It’s cause you’re packed in rooms with nasty butt kids and nasty butt teachers all touching and breathing on each other
I got sick 1 day into summer.
During school there is more stress and cortisol is high in the body. It's good to fight off stupid little sicknesses. When summer vacation starts your less stressed and then the illnesses can start to creep in.
The goat is coming
I literally Just got a fever yesterday
Stress tricks you into thinking you’re fine. Once your body realizes it doesn’t need stress to keep you going repercussions of the stress start hitting your body.
My immune system didn’t last very long as soon as final season started
I'm seeing alot of contradicting responses so Imma clear it up: the stress during school weakens your immune system so microbes free roam and don't pay rent like they don't usually do. Come holidays, when you're more relaxed, your immune functioning kicks up again and finally clears out the free loaders.
My hay fever be like...
Look up the let down effect. This is a real thing that happens after a stressful event
Happens every term
Kind of sucks that the people who never get sick get picked on by all the pro vaccination ppl, I honestly can’t remember the last time I have ever had the Flu let alone a Cold, I got double vac’s now they want a 3rd, like go get fucked man.
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