Kimberly Campos
Coms 151
Professor Hofmann
GENERAL PURPOSE: To inform
SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my audience about stress
THESIS: College students are not aware how stress can affect them. Stress can be prevented or helped to get better, but students aren’t fully aware how stress can affect you physically and mentally.
INTRODUCTION: Attention getter: “The 2016 survey showed 85 percent of students said they felt overwhelmed by all they had to do within the past 12 months. In the past year, 17 percent of students were diagnosed with or treated for anxiety, nearly 14 percent for depression and 8 percent for panic attacks”
I. Everyone stresses about one thing or another, but they aren’t fully aware of how stress can harm your body. It can affect your central nervous system by turning on your fight or fight mode. Respiratory and cardiovascular causes you to breathe quicker than normally. Digestive system can cause you to get diabetes due to liver sugars increasing. Also, the immune system by preventing to heal wounds and cure infections.
II. They are many activates campuses do to prevent from students getting stress. They bring animals to pet, worldwide scream, different activities like board games or Lego blocks, and they offer classes to help inform about stress and to prevent it so it would give you emotional and physical support.
III. Reliving stress by yoga can help, in my yoga class we would do different poses and by the end we would lay down for 10 minutes to rest and
Activities the school provides, should be at a reasonable time during the day. It would be ideal to have them during the times of the day when most students are not in class. Also these events need to have a time frame long enough for students to patriciate in this activities . For seniors in particular, there should be a known resource on campus to help with financial and career stress after college. Based off of comments from other senior students, assistance is not truly available to make sure as a group, we feel prepared for after college. The problem is either there are no resources like this, or there is not enough awareness or knowledge of these resources. Lastly, what is truly important to combat the issue is, to have a questionnaire given to students, asking them what they feel the school lacks. Also it should consist of way tthe students feel would help fix certain stress issues on
Stress and anxiety on students in America have been only increasing over the years and the education system needs to discover ways to help reduce both. According to the
Stress may affect people in different ways. The body is what we call our temple and if we do not take care of it, who will? It can cause you to fall into depression which leads to either eating a lot which will make you gain weight. Some people can turn into the dependency of alcohol or drugs. I can become with my stress due to my late submissions in school very sad the point I will probablky end
It is important to know how to manage stress in academic life as it is learning about how to balance work and academic life. It is also important for students after graduating and creates self-awareness such as weakness in them.
With all the heavy workload that students receive, it is often easy to stress out. When a
Like many of the questionnaires utilized for research in the articles used for this literature review, it was anonymous, and administered and collected during class. This form of data collection provided high turn in rates allowing researchers to have a wide study scale. According to Hicks, T., & Heastie, S., contrasting levels of stress and coping mechanisms were present in these students. It was noted that traditional college students experience more psychological stress than their nontraditional student counterparts. In addition, during the first year of college, the amount of stress experienced by students is the highest in comparison to stress in the remainder of the years. These results are especially important because it stresses the need for a strong health and wellness center within colleges and universities.
For example, stress can affect the body by causing infertility, a weakened immune system, damaged respiratory and cardiovascular systems, depression, and a host of other illness. The effects
Stress can get bad enough to where it starts to affect your body system. Things like depression, heart attacks, diseases, rashes and a low immune system can all occur to people dealing with stress bad enough. The number of common signs and symptoms is outrageous and is depressing to see that there are so many people dealing with this and how it’s such a common thing in this world. On stress.org, they talk about the different body systems and how they’re affected. The nervous, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastro and reproductive systems are all affected in some way and in many ways to say the least. If your stress ever gets so bad, I consider seeing a doctor or specialist seeing how dangerous this can get.
A. Attention Getter According to the Student Living Report 2002, an ongoing survey of student experiences carried out by MORI for the UNITE Group, more than half of students (53%) said they had become more stressed since starting university.
Stress can weaken the body and make it susceptible to colds, respiratory disorders, and even tooth decay. It can also increase your risk for developing heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, ulcers, colitis, and cancer. Untreated, these symptoms may lead to physical illness and sometimes it may also lead to death. (www.nlm.nih.gov)
Stress can take a dramatic, physical toll on the body. This can range from chronic heart disease, kidney failure, gastrointestinal diseases, and discomfort. People suffering from anxiety disorders or who have high-stress jobs, such as attorneys and accountants are more likely to suffer
Stress is no new phenomenon. It’s been around as long as man and has captivated scholars and physicians alike. With the growing demand for degrees in the professional world comes the growth of the number of college students. The relationship between stress and college students has become the subject of on-going research. Several studies show that stress in college students is increasing with time and the authors of those studies are attributing this to an increased number of students. Other research seems to indicate that it isn’t necessarily the stress that is increasing but the awareness of it. Increased awareness of stress, and its unique toll on individuals, allows colleges and students to recognize
ii . An extreme amount of stress can have health consequences, affecting our immune system and central nervous system.
If you ask any college student, whether freshman or grad student, what their top three problems in college are, stress will inevitably top that list. I’ve been at Louisiana Tech for less than three months, and I have had countless mental breakdowns. Students’ issues range from financial instability, to scholastic problems, to emotional anxiety, back to financial instability, and right over to being ill prepared. When most students think about the overwhelming amount of stress they’re facing, they link it back to the University. The stress became too much as soon as we started college, but do not solely blame the University. Trace the problem back to its root, High School.
Stress can cause many things that affect a healthy body. Stress causes quick yet shallow breathing in which case, the body's cells are being deprived of oxygen. Stress will increase cholesterol levels and can also cause indigestion, heartburn, a decreased sex drive, and also arteriosclerosis (the hardening of the arteries). While these symptoms may seem minimal, stress can decrease the activity of white blood cells. Since the white blood cells fight off sicknesses and diseases, the immune system is affected by stress and can make the body more susceptible to colds, viruses, flues, and diseases (Morrison 2).