Fight...or flight....well...I would rather get a Starbucks...
Walter Cannon and Hans Selye are founders of the manner in which current biopsychosocial models are developed to understand the relationship between stressors and the mental and physiological effects associated with the stressors. 
For example, Cannon was the person who defined the “flight or fight” mechanism that we are all familiar with currently by assessing the association of manner in which energy and inflammation were associated with blood flow and respiration (Brannon & Feist, 2004).
Homeostasis is a concept that assumes that the body naturally has a place of balance and that disease or illness, and also stress, can remove the body from its natural homeostasis. This is a theory that Hans Selye supports because of his vision of how the human body’s systems are integrated and do not act alone to cause disease (Vedhara & Irwin, 2005).
Humans are in a constant stasis in which reaction from the pituitary and hypothalamus affect the endocrine system and this results in a nervous system reaction. Psychopathology can be related to stress, nutrition, and external influences (Brannon & Feist, 2004; Preston & Johnson, 2007; & Werbach, 1999).
Stress may cause symptomologies that are at rest in the body to act up and potentially encourage psychopathologies. Selye worked to manage a concept that actually addressed the relationship between illness and stress (Brannon & Feist, 2004). His research focused the relationship between a stressor and the actual stress. I
If there is a relationship between stress and psychopathology then further research would be exciting. Of course, the research that Cannon and Selye managed creates a foundation for further questions. But they established that there are relationships between anxiety, depression, and eating disorders with psychological stressors and psychopathologies because of the interrelationship between dependencies that are related to both disorders. My interest is to take these concepts from the founders and apply them to current day situations that we all endure as well as chronic illnesses.
Brannon, L. & Feist, J. (2004). Health psychology: An introduction to behavior and health (5th Ed.). CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Preston , J. & Johnson, J. (2007). Clinical psychopharmacology made ridiculously simple (5th ed.). Miami, FL: Medmaster, Inc.
Vedhara, K., & Irwin, M.R. (2005). Human Psychoneuroimmunology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Werbach, Melvyn R. (1999). Nutritional influences on mental illness, (2nd ed.). Tarzana, CA: Third Line Press.
Dr. Lisa Samuel
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