Personal Narrative: Fiberoptic Emission

After interviewing S.R., you note the following: S.R. is under considerable stress. He owns his own business. The stress of overseeing his employees, meeting

Watching my friends’ face quiver in disgust after recounting my experience of a videofluoroscopicy and my excitement from viewing the barium travel through the oropharyngeal and pharyngeal phases of swallowing, I realized I wanted to study the extraordinary field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. During my undergraduate career at East Carolina University, my anatomy and physiology class further fostered my enthusiasm for the field when discovering how intricate and complex it is for the human body to perform a simple task such as breathing and swallowing. I was able to utilize my thirst for knowledge of the human anatomy working in Dr. Perry’s Speech Imaging and Visualization Laboratory and enhance my writing skills by reviewing peer reviewed journal articles. Ultimately working and observing lab assistants create 3D anatomical models of the laryngeal mechanism, velopharyngeal mechanism, swallowing mechanism, skull and cranium,

Stress affects people in different ways and what one person finds stressful can be normal to another. With each new situation a person will decide what

test anxiety, which is triggered by the strenuous conditions of the tests. Tight muscles, trembling,

Society defines stress as anything which forces us to change. Through technical terms stress is defined as “a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taking or exceeding a person’s resources or ability to cope.” To explaining stress researchers came up with the “Cognitive appraisal model”, this system works to tell us whether we believe we have enough resources to deal with the situation without becoming stressed. For instance as a now college student those who have had previous experience taking finales in high school can have less stress than those who have not taken it. This is because they have previous experience with taking the tests and learning how to study while those who have never taken one can become extremely stressed over the unknown of the test. Stress is one of the sub branches that is attached to the world of health psychology. Health psychology is a quickly growing branch that deals with the way the mind and body work together. Psychologists that work in the health field came up with the biopsychosocial model. This model explains the complex interaction with biological, psychological, and social factors.

They concluded that exam stress reduces immune function, potentially leaving the individual vulnerable to illness and infections. Immune function is also affected by psychological variables such as the stress of life events and feelings of loneliness. These long term stressors may make individuals more vulnerable to the added effect of short term stressors such as exams.

Patients with chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes, or multiple surgeries may experience higher levels of stress; especially if they are parents or have a spouse that they normally take care of. My patients normally exhibit some level of stress that is hard to determine sometimes with just simple conversation.

Short term effects from stress include rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, heavy sweating and/or shaky hands. The long term effects include anxiety, depression, headaches, and/or sleep problems. Other long term effects are heart disease, weight gain and/or memory/concentration impairment. A doctor with shaky hands and a scalpel doesn’t sound like a very appealing idea. Some solutions to this problem are training doctor’s assistants and nurses to do professional doctor jobs, such as surgery, opening up positions to other types of doctors, or having medical students act as doctors and prescribe

First of all, these tests can immensely stress the kids out over time. The stress of the tests can grow into an anxiety over the course of tests. When the time catches up with them the stress of failing or not being good enough for their parents can overwhelm them when testing causing them to do poorly or causing anxiety. Another

Stress has been linked to hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes, asthma, chronic pain, allegeries, headaches, skin disorders, cancer, immune system weakness and decrease blood count (Cummings et al, 2005). It has also been linked to an increase risk of alcoholism and drug use. High levels of stress can lead to higher absenteeism, larger staff turnover and low productivity. The symptoms are evident in the quantitative data, with an

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.

Dean and I stroll through the corridors visiting with each other and him generally showing me around the school and telling me where every one of my classes will be at. “ Yeah looks like we have the same class together. We should go ahead and over that way” Dean leads the pack and we wind up in a room that looks entirely like the past one, aside from this room is loaded posters dealing with the brain or other subjects such as how to defeat depression. The holo board showed Psychology: Brain-Wavelength Phenomenon. The teacher's name was Professor Killigrew, she was there before any of the other students it seemed and on time, unlike Professor Tyre, Golden bunched up hair slightly reveals a lean time-worn face that contains wide gray eyes. She was a fair skinned woman that showed she did was indeed a professor that spent many hours most likely in her study.

According to Sapolsky, chronic stress induces several morphological changes within the body that can affect what is being observed during an autopsy (Sapolsky, 1998). When individuals live in chronically stressful conditions, there is a constant pressure on their adrenal glands in order to produce hormones, which then results in

In defining the concept of stress, occupational stress and role stress are examined based on the fact that people's lives are characterized with stressors that contribute to numerous threats to their well-being. Since the concept of role stress, which is related to occupational stress, is not found in the dictionary, the starting point in the definition and analysis of stress is the use of the term stress (Riahi, 2011, p.722). While stress was initially described as the experience of some form of strain by any living organisms, the description has been expanded to a phenomenon that contributes to severe and distressing experience,

General stressors are not as crucial as critical incidents, but can be if not dealt with over a long period of time. Some examples of general work stressors most commonly cited by police officers that cause stress are: paperwork, public disrespect, shift work, death notifications, domestic violence calls, or frustration with the courts (National Institute of Justice Journal, 2000).