Stressing Over Stress Text by: Elise Canning Edited by: Christine Turner The room is spinning rapidly, your brain is at battle with your skull feeling as if it is slowly chipping away at your sanity with every throbbing punch, colors are mixing into a mush of rainbow, and your lungs are somehow becoming smaller with each dwindling breath. Stress is a real thing that too many people have to deal with. Whether your stress is because of finals, homework, your family, or just people, in general, there are many ways to fix and relief it. There are multiple solutions to this stressful topic for every person. Starting with self-help, but if that doesn’t help try venturing outside of your stuffy room. Not an outdoorsy type? Try coloring or writing. When you start to feel symptoms of stress the first thing you need to do is stop. Remove yourself from the situation that is stressing you out. If it’s homework, put it away for a few minutes; your mental health is so much more important than finishing your work right at this very moment. If you’re in class ask to go to the restroom to have a quick two-minute break. If your family or other people are causing this, go somewhere quiet or where you feel most at ease. Now once you have the time think; have I eaten a good, healthy meal lately? When was the last time I slept for a full eight to ten hours in one night? If both or one of the answers to those questions are I don’t know, then start there. If you can, find some fruit,
Stress and anxiety in the average college student. Selye (1936) defined stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change” (The American Institute of Stress, 2017). Stress can lead to feelings of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal part of life, but can be considered a type of worry or fear that can inhibit everyday life. College students show higher stress/anxiety than average individuals. Major sources of stress are from new responsibilities, campus living, money issues, and classwork (Ross, Niebling, & Heckert, 1999). There have been a number of studies circled around how stress can affect college students. Females and males show differences in anxiety/stress in college. (Misra and McKean (2000)) found that females
COMMUNICATION STYLES AS CORRELATED TO THE STRESS AND ANGER MANAGEMENT OF SELECTED BS PSYCHOLOGY FRESHMEN STUDENTS
According to National Institute of Mental Health close to 20 Million Americans suffer from Major depression and Anxiety (SCI AMERICAN)
I have a lot of stressor; there are so many things in my life that cause me to stress out a lot. I stress out over things like not having enough time to finish my home work, or project, I feel exhausted and the end of the day and sometime I would end up not finishing the assignment, because I could not focus and pay attention to what I was doing.
Stress is a very common everyday thing. People have stress so much that most of the time they don’t even know how much it’s affecting them. Stress can really affect your body, mind, and behavior. It is a normal response to situations that make you feel upset or threatened in a way. Stress is the body’s way of change. The change can either be good or bad.
Causes of Stress Introduction So, what causes the stress that can be so bad for you? Some people may have a nervous system that goes into a stress reaction more readily than others. This could be due to individual differences in genetics and brain chemistry.
Stress is a physiological reaction of the body where different defense mechanisms get into it to affront a difficult situation that could be perceived as threatening or critical by the body.
Stress is a normal part of life, and there are two different types of stress: Positive Stress and Negative Stress. You might experience stress at work, school, or even at home, and you may feel like there isn’t a way to avoid it. Positive stress is a productive stress that gives you the strength to complete a task (Weaver, 2006). According to Janet DiPietro, a developmental psychologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Stress is an ongoing dilemma that occurs in each and everyone’s life. It is a factor that is undoubtedly a part of daily living. Due to the trivial problems that occur in people’s daily lives massive amounts of stress can arise. People perceive and manage stress in many different ways. The causes and effects of stress are numerous and one’s ability to manage stress is vital in maintaining healthy living.
Psychological stress is a result of many factors and should be dealt with very carefully. Stress can be defined as “An excess of demand made upon the adaptive capabilities of the mind and body”.(Joseph 1). Another way of putting it, is that there are some things that put certain demands on us. The effects of stress should not be limited to unpleasant emotional states. Many studies have concluded that the effects on our physical health from stress can be extremely detrimental. These adverse physical effects include heart disease and formations of cancer. There are also some societal issues that psychological stress can hamper.
A way one can manage stress is to build their physical reserves. This includes exercise for cardiovascular fitness three to four times a week (moderate, prolonged rhythmic exercise is best, such as walking, swimming, cycling, or jogging), eat well-balanced, nutritious meals, maintain your ideal weight, avoid nicotine, excessive caffeine, and other stimulants, mix leisure with work, take breaks and get away when you can, get enough sleep, and finally be as consistent with your sleep schedule as possible.
At one time or another, most people experience stress. The term stress has been used to describe a variety of negative feelings and reactions that accompany threatening or challenging situations. However, not all stress reactions are negative. A certain amount of stress is actually necessary for survival. For example, birth is one of the most stressful experiences of life. The high level of hormones released during birth, which are also involved in the stress response, are believed to prepare the newborn infant for adaptation to the challenges of life outside the womb. These biological responses to stress make the newborn more alert promoting the bonding process and, by extension, the child's physical survival.
Stress is part of our lives. We live with it, deal with it, and above all worry about it. Our way of life, the area in which we live, the economy, and our jobs can cause a great deal of stress. Not everyone deals with the same level of stress and there are several factors that can impact our lives and cause us to have higher or lower stress levels. We can have stress caused by Cataclysmic events which according to Feldman (2009) are events that can affect many people at the same time and are “disasters such as tornado and plane crashes, as well as terrorist attacks”. (p418). Other factors are personal stressors and can be caused by events such as a divorce, death or a loved one or the loss of a job. (Feldman, 2009). The
There are many ways to reduce or handle stress in your life. The easiest and one of the healthiest antidotes for stress is laughter. Just smiling helps because it releases blood flow to the brain and endorphins are released. (4.) This gives a sense of well being. Some other simple techniques are doing uninterrupted breathing. Another stressor is lack of sleep. Therefore break the stress-sleeplessness cycle. You can help relieve your sleep problem by developing a daily sleep routine and don’t drink alcohol or caffeine before bed. Another thing is to reserve your bedroom for sleeping and sex only. (4.) Writing down your feeling in a diary may help relieve emotional stress. (4.)