My Reflection On My Stress

Within the next week I was rushed to the hospital because of excruciating chest pains, after a variety of tests they reach a final verdict; by not eating I weakened all of my muscles in my body and all of my organs were starting to attack one another. Once I was finally released my mother took me to see many different doctors. I found a nutritionist and began my journey back to living a healthy life, where I both exercised and ate well. My image has always been one of my main issues with myself and has held me back from trying new things and being who I want to be. That experience has taught me to love who I am, no matter what anyone says. And if I wasn't faced with that problem I would not be as strong as I

As WebMD states, stress is the human body’s normal response to changes that may require a response or adjustment. The human body responds to these adjustments with emotional, mental, and physical responses. Despite varying levels of stress, this is a natural part of human life. Anything that an individual may respond to may cause stress in the human body. Stress may occur from tour body,

In our text stress is described as situations that trigger a physical and emotional reaction and also includes the reactions we have to the stress. The places and areas that stress come into our lives are endless. Most of us have a family, friends, and work we have to juggle on a shoestring schedule and sometimes the budget is on a shoestring too. Money can be a huge stressor especially if you do not have enough to pay the bills, buy your baby a new pair of shoes, or purchase that plane ticket to paradise. Problems at work can also give stress and anxiety to everyone. Stress creates problems with your health such as the nervous system, Endocrine system, Immune system, cardiovascular health, sleep, and can also affect relationships. I think

Ever since I have been in school I was always the “bigger girl” of all my friends. I constantly wished I could look like them, and fit into the same clothing that they wore. I know that sounds silly and when I look back at it now it was absurd, I was young and did not know any better. I struggled through middle school, and then high school took effect. I pushed myself so hard to lose weight, to reach my goals, to finally be happy with myself. I ended up losing twenty pounds. Back then that still was not satisfying enough for me; I was obsessive about the number I would see when I stepped onto that scale. I wanted more! That was then and this is now. Being twenty years old, I wish I could go back to that weight I was in high school, but not having that negative unhealthy attitude towards myself. A negative mind is never going to give you a positive life. As a college student I am always busy and on the go, I sometimes lose track of what food I am putting into my body, and how I am putting that food into my body. This book put a different perspective into my mind, and made me realize that I needed to change something in order for me to be happy with myself again. One specific part of the book really caught my attention. It is titled,

I agree with Kelly McGonigal, not because whatever she said, is true about stress, but I feel that situation in my life. As she said that stress can be the healthier and gives you joy and meaning of a life. For example, I am not sure that this has been with me since I born, but I need stress in order to survive, and studying well because if I don’t have stress than I feel like helpless, or shiftless. Likewise, people need to distinguish between the good and bad stress before looking the result of it. Similarly, this topic is like “ see and think always right for better opportunities and for being a better

Our book describes stress as “any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and tax one’s coping ability” (Weiten, 2014). Stress is not necessarily a traumatic, life destroying event. It can be as simple a small change in one’s daily schedule. People will have multiple stresses throughout their lifetime. Some will be little and daily, but overtime these add up and can affect you in many ways. Stress can be positive or negative and can take many forms; a few being frustration, internal conflict, change, and pressure. All of which make almost a daily appearance in my life (Weiten, 2014).

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.

Rae Smith with the Love Yourself Challenge on tumbler.com relays a strong message when she says, “There is nothing wrong with your body, but there is a lot wrong with the messages which try to convince you otherwise.” When it comes to having a positive body image in today’s society it can often be a struggle for anyone. 89% of American women are unhappy with their current weight and body, 84% would like to lose weight. (Schultz, 2015) Speaking for myself, I have struggled with weight and body image since I was about 11. I have done so many harmful things to myself as a teen and into my adulthood trying to achieve the body I thought I could be happy with but it never really occurred to me the damage I was doing until I had a daughter. My

Stress is a significant issue, as how we deal with stress determines how our lives are. In order to reach a solution of how to avoid stress, we must first understand the causes of it. All stress originates from us as human beings wanting to be perfect, being afraid of the unknown, and loathing

Stress can build from following a boring daily routine and trying to balance work, social and school life.

Certain people have a tendency to stress more than others, and this is just down to how they generally act and live their life. As we all know stress isn’t an optimistic feature to have, it would be better to avoid any stressors and when not avoided stress can result in causing negative effects for a person. Martin, Carlson and Buskist, (2010, p.749) stated that: “Stress Is a pattern of physiological, behavioural, emotional and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as preventing a goal or endangering or otherwise threatening a well-being”. Many different things can cause stress. These matters can be small for example: having to wait for long hours in your car in traffic, or can be a bit more serious such as having a very bad disease or illness. It would be very helpful to try to focus on more positive things in order to reduce the stress someone may be going through. However when the stress gets too intense and the duration of stress is going on for too long, this can result in a negative way,

I don’t remember ever liking my body. In my mind, there was always something wrong with it. The insecurities and distorted perspectives that I had were only exacerbated during adolescence. In the beginning of 2013, my life changed forever as I was hospitalized for anorexia nervosa. My only goal in life up to that point was to have a thigh gap, protruding collarbones, a flat stomach—I wanted to feel beautiful. And so I started calorie restricting. The girl I used to be would weigh herself every day and pray for that number to drop, watch cooking videos on terrifying foods that she would never eat, and lie to her parents so they would think she was eating. Gradually I lost weight and my family members complimented my new look. It never occurred

The summer before junior year was one of the worst times of my life. Everywhere I went people would ask if I was a model, and had shocked expressions when I said no. Hearing this as often as I did, I developed an image in my mind of what I needed to look like. At 5’10 and 145 pounds I needed to weigh 125. I needed my waist smaller. I had to have more defined muscles. In the back of my mind, I knew I had developed an eating disorder, but it never fit the criteria for anorexia or bulimia.

As Mahatma Gandhi said, "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be." Therefore, if you feel that you are a very stressed person or doomed to feel stressed out, then you will likely find ways to manifest that stress through your perception on life. In addition, you won 't even bother to learn how to deal with stress because you won 't believe you can.

When my family moved away from the place I grew up I began to have a major problem with my weight; I turned to food to comfort me. I somehow felt secure while eating and because of that psychological reassurance I got from the food, I was soon over weight. I knew I had to do something but that urgency would die when I would be introduced to a new flavor of Brewster’s ice cream or a limited time only supreme large fries that I saw advertised on the television or in a magazine. My self esteem and body-image suffered a great amount during those years of constant struggle. As I looked at pictures of celebrities, athletes, average people, friends, my sister and then myself, I noticed something, all of them were thin except me. After this and