Kelly Mcgonigal Stress

The author gives exemplary examples of the short term and long term effects of stress. The author goes on to state that the short term effect is beneficial but the long term is not. “Mild stress can be beneficial. It can help you

Humans frequently turn on the stress response that was intended to assist our survival in reaction to the everyday challenges we face. Professor Michael Marmot conducted a study in England of 28,000 people’s health over a course of 40 years. Each person was a British

In Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk, she discusses how we have been thinking about stress in the wrong way. While it is true that stress does have harmful health effects, a major deciding factor in the extent of those effects is our beliefs about stress. Studies have shown that people who experienced a lot of stress and believed it was harmful for their health had a forty-three percent increased risk of dying. However, people who experienced a lot of stress, but did not believe it was harmful to their health had the lowest risk of dying in the entire study. Their risk was even lower than people who experienced very little stress. In addition, thousands of people died prematurely in a year just from the belief that stress is harmful to you. While we commonly interpret the physical changes our body experiences during stress

Stress Is the body’s way of responding to the hectic lives most of us live, whether good or bad. The body releases chemicals into the bloodstream, which creates a rush of energy and strength If an individual is feeling stressed. This energy can prove useful if an individual is in physical danger. Because it enables a person’s survival instinct kicks in; it is often described as ‘fight or flight.’ In addition, stress can also have a negative effect on the body, for example: suffering from stress and leaving it unchecked can contribute to health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.

When talking about oxytocin McGonigal said, “Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response. It’s as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound.” She talks about why oxytocin is a stress hormone, and it is because as humans we are social people and this helps you not keep your stress to yourself but to tell someone. This hormone also protects your cardiovascular system from the many effects that stress can have on your body. McGonigal also uses logos because she uses numbers when talking about how many Americans died prematurely.

I really enjoyed watching Kelly Mcgonigal video. I can honest agree with the study of stress By understanding feeling stress can be good for you. My reasons is because stress is a feeling of what you think could be wrong in your life or different obstracles. You can control your thoughts and feelings and think of stress as a challenge. Think of a challeng that you will only conquer. What you think of stress in your life view. Understanding that feeing stress could be helpful, knowing thats its only a battle that you will defeat. In the video students from Harvard University was tested by doing a stress social test.They was taught to be prepared and rethink they

Stress is a subjective response involving interactions between an individual and the environment that is appraised by the individual as being detrimental to their mental and physical wellbeing (Selye, 2013). A combination of genetics, life stressors and ongoing stress can increase vulnerability to psychiatric disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety (Haddadi & Besharat, 2010), alongside physiological disorders such as cardiovascular disease (Seery, 2011). However, the response to stress can be mediated by overcoming the adverse effects of risk exposure, avoiding negative trajectories and learning to cope successfully with traumatic experiences. This process of adapting to the environment following a stressful

Stress is a huge factor in everyday life; something that most people experience on a daily basis, and indeed, suffer from without ever really giving it much thought at all. It is defined as “the process by which we [human beings] appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges” (Myers, 2014, p. 2.9), and the National Institute of Mental Health states that stress is “the brain’s response to any demand” (National Institute of Mental Health, n.d.). It has the ability to affect the human body in both positive and negative ways, and according to David Myers, it is all in how we face these challenges (2014, p. 2.9) whether we will succeed or end up feeling even more stressed out than before. It is for this reason that the concept of

Stress plays an important role in our daily life. Many studies have been conducted to study the effects of stress. The “lifespan hormesis effect” explains that moderate amounts of stress is beneficial to the body and in turn allowing the body to cope with higher stress

Stress has become such an integral part of modern life and our daily existence, which is difficult to believe that our current use of the term originated less than a century ago. Hans Selye is unquestionably one of the greatest pioneers of medicine. His famous and revolutionary concept of stress exposed and uncovered innumerable treatments through the discovery that hormones participate in the development of degenerative diseases, including brain hemorrhages, high blood pressure, kidney failure, arthritis, coronary thrombosis and even cancer. Currently, his research is being used to formulate codes of behaviors based on laws governing the body’s stress resistance while dealing with personal, interpersonal and group problems.

As I briefly mentioned working out and eating (engaging in alternative activities) are coping activities I use to reduce stress, while also increasing my wellbeing. As explained in the lecture, higher levels of stress lead to an increased chance of heart problems. The best and most beneficial ways to strengthen and keep a healthy heart is through exercise and a good diet, which are my two de-stressors. So, changing my exercise routine and diet to be more heart focused would be beneficial.

According to the American Psychological Association, “more than half of working adults and 47 percent of all Americans-say they are concerned with the amount of stress in their lives” (Stambor). As the results, many Americans are dealing their stress by making poor decision, being inactive, or make unhealthy choices (Stambor). Without a coping strategy, they can be overwhelmed of stress hence; this can negatively impact an individual’s social life and health. His or her own jobs can be affected by the their own stress if it is not dealt with correctly. In the long-run, stress can affect mental health. According to researchers from the Society for Neuroscience meeting held in New Orleans, stress, no matter the cause, can affect the brain circuitry; thus, will have a long term effect on mental health (DiSalvo). To avoid this long-term effect, the individual needs to deal with this stress. Medication can be an option, but requires money to acquire and an individual needs to worry about its side effects. Another way to help cope with stress is by exercising regularly. In Exercise and Mental Health, “appropriate exercise can make a substantial contribution to a comprehensive program of…mental health…benefits includes reductions in anxiety…and probably an enhanced capacity for coping with mental stress (Haskell 50). This is based off on multiple researches William Haskell had

After watching the TED talk by Kelly McGonigal “How to make stress your friend” all I can say is WOW. Her speech was not only insightful but powerful. The way she presented the speech was truly that of mastery. Two important points she made in her talk. The first was how we can turn stress into a positive. She suggested that science shows that if we change the way we view stress it can actually be beneficial to our lives. This idea although hard to achieve completely is something most would never think to imagine. I can relate to this but only through past tense. When I look back on many stressful times in my life, I say to myself "I wouldn't change a thing because it was a lesson that made me better" or "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger". But Ive never tried this technique of changing how I view stress in the present. After this video I will continue to pause take a deep breath during stressful times, but this time try to change my mindset during the period of stress and how I view it. The next point she made was how we can contribute to an increase in oxytocin(cuddle hormone). Oxytocin which is a anti-innflamtory drug can be increased by increasing social contact specifically seeking to help people. The simple act of reaching out to someone who's in need increasing this beneficial drug in our brains. This blows my mind, that by doing good works in life we can improve our

Stress affects the whole body which gets responses from the brain; the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system work together to connect all the systems. The sympathetic nervous system sends off a mandatory stress on the body to pump the heart, blood to flow, and the flow of adrenaline, in which not all stress is bad because this is automatic stress (Benjamin). When it starts to affect

As Dr. Shively and other researchers have demonstrated, the physical changes our body goes through in response to stress may be helpful over the short term.