10 Facts About Social stress

Social stress is stress that stems from one's relationships with others and from the social environment in general.

When Social stress becomes chronic, one experiences emotional, behavioral, and physiological changes that can put one under greater risk for developing a mental disorder and physical illness.

Social stress is typically the most frequent type of stressor that people experience in their daily lives and affects people more intensely than other types of stressors.

Similarly, social stress arising from discrimination is related to greater depressive symptoms.

Social stress occurring early in life can have psychopathological effects that develop or persist in adulthood.

Social stress has been tied to worse health outcomes among patients who already have a disease.

For HIV-positive females, who have contracted the HSV virus, Social stress is a risk factor for genital herpes breakouts.

Social stress leads to a number of physiological changes that mediate its relationship to physical health.

Social stress stemming from perceived daily discrimination is associated with elevated levels of blood pressure during the day and a lack of blood pressure dipping at night.

Nevertheless, a dysfunctional HPA response to Social stress is thought to increase risk for developing or exacerbating diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.