Chronic Stress Letter

Kelly McGonigal discusses the importance of viewing stress as positive, as opposed to negative, by detailing three specific studies and findings about stress. In the first study, it was discovered that people with a significant amount of stress had a higher mortality rate; however, this was only statistically significant if the subject viewed stress as harmful. If the overly-stressed subject didn’t view stress as harmful, they were actually at the lowest risk of dying, even compared to those with a minimal amount. Therefore, it is important to change a person’s perspective of stress. In particular, McGonigal emphasizes that stress is important for a person’s body: it energizes and prepares them to meet whatever challenge they are facing. Furthermore, it helps the blood vessels remain relaxed, thereby allowing the heart to remain healthy.

Chronic stress has become an epidemic; it affects almost everyone in the western societies. We are taught that stress is given and we just need to manage it and try to change those circumstances or “stressors” we can somehow influence. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms, for some it is exercise, for some alcohol, shopping, meditation, etc. We want to escape stressful thinking and everybody finds their own way. Unfortunately, although we might experience a temporary relief, something usually triggers the stress again. Relief can only be temporary because stress is not caused by the circumstances and thus fixing those or getting relief outside is not going to help. Overwhelm and stress is coming from our thinking. As long as we don’t see it, we are trying to fix the wrong target.

There are many different broad definitions of stress and how to cope with it, known as stress management.

Chapter 6 covers the fundamentals of stress disorders. After reading this chapter discussing the fight and flight response, psychological stress disorders and physical stress disorders, I have a better concept of this subject itself. Our fight and flight response is trigger by our hypothalamus, which sends off neurons and chemical for our mind and bodies to react. As discussed in class, the autonomic nervous system control the involuntary activities like heartbeat and breathing. The sympathetic nervous system is aroused when we face danger (THE FIGHT). For example, the sympathetic nervous system makes our heart beat faster when we are scared. The parasympathetic nervous system (THE FLIGHT) help make us calm, like regulating our heartbeats.

I really enjoyed that you acknowledged stress management. When i was writing my post I was focused on the academic portion and didn’t think how is would effect me otherwise. Do you have a particular way you schedule your school work? I am still trying to figure out when the best time is.

Final Thoughts: Chronic stress is a very serious health condition which shouldn’t be neglected. Stress is also a major sign and symptom of various diseases such as Lyme disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, adrenal fatigue, Hypoglycemia etc. Visit your doctor, if you think you’re suffering from chronic

Terone, I believe writing a business memo about stress is an excellent way to educate people on this common mental health problem. In addition to this, I wanted to know if you will be including  broad or narrow information in your research on stress ?. Terone, I am wondering you will be writing an informative or a persuasive business memo? Finally, I know many people who suffer from various stress disorders and I am wondering what types of techniques elevate the symptoms of this

Watching the video about stress management has taught me so much. I wasn’t aware that stress fat was the most fatal type of fat. That is a very scary piece of information. As a college student I am constantly stressed. There are tests coming up, quizzes to study for, homework to do and papers to write. Sometimes the only thing I can do to help me keep my mind off of all of these things is eating. Sweets and chocolate really do the trick for me. But after watching this video I will be much more mindful about what I consume while I am stressed. The video mentioned different ways to deal with stress, one exercise. Dealing with stress by exercise is much healthier than dealing with stress by eating. One aspect of the video that I disliked was that

The heart of this research is to surface the personal experiences of how students living in chronic stress at home perceive their high school as a place of support. Since the focus of this research will be the information solicited from human subjects, the approval of the Internal Review Board (IRB) is necessary. This approval will ensure that compliance with institutional, local, state, and federal laws as well as the compliance with all ethical principles outlined in the Belmont Report are followed throughout this study (Galvez, Rose, Hagemann, & Aburto, 2014). Through strict compliance with the ethical principles outlined by the Belmont Report as well as the principles outlined in the CITI Program training courses (CITI Program at the University of Miami, 2013), respect for persons, beneficence and justice will be exercised in creating methodologies and during the data collection portion of this research. In addition to minimizing risk to research subjects, the use of IRB approval processes will help to increase the confidence in methodology and the future validity of the data secured from subjects.

My score for the Stress Vulnerability Questionnaire was 67 points which puts me under poor (highly vulnerable to stress). Similarly, my Stress Source Questionnaire score was 574 which it is considered as a moderate amount of stress since I scored more than 500. These results though do not prove that I have a significant amount of stress carrying on but also incentives me to act urgently and start planning up behavior modification as well as start applying relaxation techniques that help me manage this stress I suffer from. As a result, I will need to work on this area and make sure I learn to properly manage stress by making use of a relaxation technique that best works for me.

Throughout life stress is a common problem whether it’s at work, school or home. The many negative effects of stress in fact affect individuals differently varying from health issues to work performance. Therefore, all individuals have different views of stress and various ways of handling it or otherwise managing their stress. Stress is when any living thing feels endangered and its homeostasis is at risk (Varvogli & Darviri, 2011, p. 74). Ways of dealing with stress are efforts of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological nature that allows a person to manage stress. Although there are different causes of stress, there are also many techniques for relieving it. The following articles are intended for the reader to

One of my employees arrived at my office informing me they needed to take a couple days off due to personal reasons. Rather than inviting the staff member in for a chat or passing this important information on straight away via email, I was not really actively listening and did not ask if there was anything I could possibly help out with (McShane and Travagilione 2005). I was distracted by a manager entering my office wanting to talk about the statistics I had provided for the upcoming finance meeting. I did not let anyone know the employee was not coming in for 2 days. I was not actively listening because of the interruption from the manager entering my office (McShane and Travagilione 2005). I did not prioritise important

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.

The first study was called Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed, and post traumatic stress disorder by Finucane, Dima, Ferreira, & Halvorsen. This study consisted of four groups doing basic emotion profiles to see where each individual fit when it came to the five emotions. Now the five basic emotions that were used in this study were happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.

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