What is the meaning of physiological effect?

Answer 1

"My questions is just that, what are physiological effect on the body when it comes to psychological abuse in the work place." (previous answer)

(RE) In response to both question and answer, a Physiological effect is where a stimulus creates a change in the working chemical and physical properties of an organism, so in this sense it could mean;

e.g. A Physically traumatic event such as a car crash --> bruises and injures a persons ribs --> causes angina (pain) of the heart when he/she breathes --> psychologically feels anxious about breathing --> depresses breathing --> has reduced CO2 removal and O2 uptake --> fatigue and malaise while healing --> psychologically lacks of motivation to do anything.

anything in this cascade would be a " physiological effect"

Since the " body and soul" work as one structure its appropriate to say that "Psychological abuse" in the workplace can cause a number of physiological effects for example..

• Excessive cortisol release from continuous high amounts of stress can cause "general adaption syndrome" failure that can cause dysfunction in metabolism and depressed immunity.
• Excessive cortisol may stimulate muscle wasting while anxiety, stress, nervousness can trigger irritable bowel syndrome, unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, alcohol or drug use (commercial)
• Disturbed mental state, poor concentration, insomnia & depression which leads to fatigue and issues with daily living
• etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc -->> etc -->>>>>> just keeps going