Personal Narrative: The Origins Of My Stress

In contemporary U.S.A, it can be very challenging keeping up with our fast pace society. Since we are a nation where everything is expected to get done as quickly as possible, and everything seems to have deadlines that must be met especially in the work field; it’s no surprise when we must stare stress right in the face at one point or another. For some of us, it’s as frequent as every day that stress arises and luckily for others, it’s not as much. However, whatever the case maybe we all have had and will go through stressful events in our lifetime. How one chooses to cope with stress is solely up to them. Although, there is one thing that is for certain and that is high levels of stress can be detrimental to one 's health, but there are a variety of precautionary coping methods in which one can defeat this ongoing battle with the evil entity—stress.

“Ugh I'm so board!” I thought one day. I got bored of playing with legos and I decided to get a snack. While I was walking upstairs I saw something I've never seen before. A smooth black container, that read in bold letters PS3 gaming console and several other small boxes that said things I've never heard before like Call of Duty, Uncharted 3,and Sonic Dimensions.

Sara Munns in her essay “Keep Calm And Stress On”, argues the negative perception of stress, propagated by modern society has led to an unnecessary push towards lifestyles aimed at mitigating stress in daily life. To give her readers a new perspective of stress, she focuses on the positive aspects of stress and how with the proper view it can benefit its recipient. In this essay I will first, analyze the various claims made by Miss Munns, as well as the assumptions that correspond with these claims, and finally I will conclude by giving a personal account of the overall effectiveness this essay has had on my perception of stress.

If you talked you get sent to the princeable’s office. You would get supened from school or even exspelled. In 1st grade someone, got suspended because they were caught talking to another student. I felt bad for that person hind’ve, I didn’t know should have I felt bad.

There are two types of people on the first day of school. Those who want to impress, and those who simply do not give a damn. Clara is the second type. With a black soccer shirt to match her black high top chuck taylors and dark wash jeans, she walks in casually without making eye contact. Not that she is shuddering at the thought of human confrontation, she simply just doesn’t care all that much. That’s one possiblility.

When you told the class about our assignment and how apart of it was going to be not using our phones for 6 hours, I felt a rush of anxiety jolt through my body as you said those words. I know that sounds terrible that I physically could feel anxiety in my body after hearing that, but it’s true, I was anxious and honestly a little annoyed. My phone is my lifeline, basically it’s like a baby to me. I have it with me for almost twenty-four hours a day and have it right beside me when I sleep.

Under severe stress I usually: Under stressful situations most people lose their train of thought or take their actions out on others. I’ve found it to be quite helpful to use breathing techniques to reduce the stress on the body and mind. I tend to take a step back from whatever it is that I’m working on and look at the big picture, not just the things that are stressing me out. One crucial part of dealing with extreme stress is getting enough sleep. I’m very careful not to burn myself out when it comes to dealing with stress, whether it be personal, school related, or work related. Another technique I use is separation, by that I mean try to separate your individual stresses. Although, it may seem difficult, trying not to take your stress

After taking the stress barometer test on page 6 of Unit 2 in the text I was astounded that I am teetering on the edge of being more dominant on either side of the spectrum. In the column A being more often occurrences I had 10 behaviors that I often exhibit, while on the column B rarely occurring I had 12 behaviors that I rarely exhibit. The results show that while I am success oriented it does not mean that it encompasses every aspect of my life. For instance, I do work a lot of overtime and take work home, but at the same time when I do have free time, I have no problem or guilt felt when I relax at home. One of the highlighting behaviors that is apparent when looking at my results is that when it comes to patience, I do not possess the

Stress has always been an extremely interesting and complicated part of my life. I suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, which also results in anxiety and depression at times. During my teenage years, I self medicated frequently. I didn't want to put in the work and the time to figure out what was wrong with me and how to make it better. Drinking and experimenting with drugs was my way of processing any conflict that arose in my life. Over the past five years, I've been attending therapy, I've started hiking and camping and the birth of my child had since changed my enthusiasm for getting better. I've been baby carrying him since he was born. We've summited mountains, visited hidden, cascading waterfalls and hiked for miles into old growth forests to visit hot springs and lakes. My OCD will never be cured, but I truly work as hard as I possibly can now for myself and for my family to be strong and present and level-headed. I have a bag of emotional tools that I've become accustomed to using now and I am able to process and deal with stress in healthy and productive ways.

This essay discusses the importance of stress management. It covers the signs and symptoms of stress. The essay also covers some links between health and stress. Coping with stress and stress management are also discussed. Stress effects one’s cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral function and requires management in order to maintain health and daily functionality.

The primary stress in my life is my job, I work in the banking industry. Where I am currently employed I work in the loan operations department and was recently promoted to a lead position. Now as with any promotion comes more work, my stress was solely based off my new boss and her demands for the job and not wanting to train me properly. The one thing that was noticed is that our personalities did not click and it allowed for a stressful workplace. I am a calm person, but emotionally I was not equipped to deal with someone yelling at me and always telling me I was not doing a good job.

One of my protective factors was sociocultural, the supports from love’s one. When I first came to United States 11 years ago, I could not speak any words of English. Students would sometimes made fun of me because of my broken English, and I was sad. However, with the support of my ESL teachers, friends that have been here longer than I am, and my parents. I got through my years, it was tough but I couldn’t do it without their

Stress is an inevitable part of our life. It serves a useful purpose in life by stimulating effort, inventiveness and

In conclusion to assessment two, my anxiety levels have diminished. The assessment required several thinking processes and encouraged me to face a few formidable challenges. Overall I had no difficulties attaining the answers, the challenges I faced were predominantly communicating and explaining my thinking and recalling the ‘language of mathematics’. At school mathematics was not one of my preferred or illustrious subjects until I had a teacher in year seven with a passion for teaching, this changed my whole perspective on mathematics and schooling completely. Over time as a parent, teacher aide and an active citizen I have encountered many problem solving situations in a work place environment and everyday occurrences, some daunting,

Everybody has at least one thing in common. Can you guess what it is? If you guessed, heartbreak, you’re right, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. The correct answer is stress. Everyone has stress in his or her life at one point or another. It’s one of many inevitable parts of life. Whether it’s busting out a research paper for Psychology at the last minute, expecting your first child to be born, to making sure you’re up in time to catch the Saturday morning cartoons, it’s clearly evident that everyone goes through stress. The real question is, how is stress handled in our society? A person is defined by how they handle the stressors in their lives and how they overcome stressful moments. This paper will explore the aspects of