Dealing with Stress

Stress is a major component of people’s lives at some point or another. Stress is a state of mental and/or emotional tension as a result of demanding circumstances and events. Stress has an impact on humans physically and psychologically. There are different types of stress including: acute, episodic acute, and chronic. Acute is the most common form of stress and it only has temporary effects, episodic is a more frequent form of acute stress, and chronic is the most destructive. Individuals react to these forms of stress in many different ways. There are techniques for dealing with stress, however, not all are positive and healthy treatments. The brain and body follow a complex pathway in order for a person to respond to and feel stress.

Stress is unavoidable. It comes in many different forms and affects every person differently. Depending on personality and outlook on life, a person’s response to “…stress can be a neutral, negative, or positive experience” (Stöppler). Most people don’t know the proper way to handle stress, so they wish that they could avoid it all together. However, once the proper way to cope with stress is learned, it can be a positive experience in everyone’s life.

My dad had just visited a psychiatrist; he felt like he didn’t want to live anymore. After dinner my dad would lock himself up in his and my mom’s room and stay there for the rest of the night. This routine last for about six months, after my dad’s brother, my godfather, had died of cancer. Though I was not well informed about what occurred to my dad I knew that perhaps it was nothing good. I became part of my families’ conversations about my dad’s illness and came to a realization that it was more serious than what I thought. Not knowing the things that went through his mind I started to take an interest in his illness, depression. I started doing research on my own and found that there are various factors that can lead to depression, such as stress. Through his crucial experience I was able to develop what I now call my passion, psychology. Gaining more knowledge about depression, as well as seeing my dad struggle through his experiences is what encouraged me to do my senior project on “How to Manage Stress.”

Application: In order to manage my stress levels, I implemented both emotional and task-focused coping. To start, I used constructive self-talk and trained myself using the capacities of psychological capital. I specifically focused on confidence, despite knowing I am capable of being an effective and useful group member in group projects, I often worry about other team members’ competencies. I used mastery/success experiences to think about the times I have been in groups where we were successful in our

Everyone has stress, but not everyone realizes the impact it has on their lives. Most people don’t realize or understand the amount of stress they are under. What used to be considered extreme levels of stress has become normal in today’s society. Most people, adults especially, don’t realize that teens largely experience these high levels of stress. Before talking about the stress that teens experience, though, it is best to understand what stress is and why one has it. Stress is a natural response and reaction the body experiences to things that occur in life, both to and around a person. Humans have had stress since their first creation. It is a survival instinct, enabling our flight or fight mode, only nowadays it has

For the most part, I don’t deal with a lot of stress. I am typically a calm and mellow person. However, there are a few thought patterns I sometimes attach to that have the ability to make me stressed. The main source of my stress comes from discontentment. I often wonder if there’s something else I could be doing with my life that I would find more fulfilling. I also feel stress when I haven’t been as productive as I could be. This stress stems from society’s emphasis on maximizing productivity in order to justify one’s existence. My last common source of stress stems from the desire to be in control of life. When I feel like an event, or life in general, isn’t going how I planned, I tend to get stressed.

Obviously, whether we want or not, stresses are happening everyday in our life. They can come from the external impact like an exam is coming, to the internal impact as pressure from yourself to achieve an A score; or from a small problem with low intensity like a traffic jam on the street, to a big issue with high intensity like being in a huge terrorism. It seems that we cannot run away from stress, it is something irresistible that we have to accept. Because stress is unavoidable, we need to learn how to deal with them efficiently. Some kinds of stresses can bring to us positive effects that motivate us to handle things better, but majority of them give us bad feelings and negative effects to our general health. As my personal hardly to find the balance between study, work, and family, I am right now struggling of dealing with stresses, that are caused by the pressure from assignments and exams in studying, workloads of my job and the responsibility to take care my family. Reading the article “ How Stress Affects Your Health” on the American Psychological Association website, I can get more valuable understandings about stress, have connected to some knowledges that I learnt in my Psychology class until now and draw some beneficial learnings to apply in my practical life.

The purpose of the study conducted by Clarrissa M. E. Richarson and Kenneth G. Rice was to have an understanding of the role of stress and managing the stress in the self-critical perfectionist’s day-to-day lives. The main points of the study are daily stress in the lives of self-perfectionists, how self-perfectionists cope with their stress, and a their psychological health. The study is clear and hypothesis is clear. There were 396 undergraduates that participated in the study. They were asked to keep a daily journal of their stress and they would describe their stresses at the end of every day for an entire week. The past research showed that the participants where not willing to donate information due to their self-critical perfectionism and it could have possibly helped them to have less stress in their lives resulting in better overall health but mostly better overall psychological health.

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