Reflection About Stress

For this week's essay I had the ability to learn about stress and the different categories that people can fall into. People who experience stress more are categorized as type A people why people who are less prone to these stresses are categorized as type B people. After talking the quiz I learned that I scored a 267. This places me in the low type A range. This was little bit of a surprise to me because I don't consider myself to be an over stressed person. I then thought about what causes me stress and possible ways of being able to change my life style to help lessen the stress I experience. In this essay I am going to share about what some of my major stresses are, how I reduce stress and finally I will share a time when I was more of a type A person than a type B person.

Stress is a big factor in everyday life. It influences how we approach life and events. Stress is why people run tight schedules and diet regularly. The power stress has is a negative effect over our brain and our body. Many people do not understand how to cope with stress. Therefore, people suffer from physical illness due to stress. Learning is not taking place when someone undergoes stress.

Day-to-day issues can also present as stress, like keeping up with schoolwork (Naseer, 2016). For a student who wishes to pass but may have a learning disability or simply does not easily learn through the teaching methods, it can be stressful to keep up with the work and grades. Teachers, administrators, students, and sometimes even parents can put stress on someone to do well in school. It is the expectation of success that can also be a daily stressor. Additionally, issues with oneself or situations like insecurities and peer pressure can create massive amounts of stress which will eventually take a toll on the body (Naseer, 2016). Often, a stressful situation can be categorized into multiple groups since the extenuating circumstances will branch out and lead to other stressors. Some texts will group a couple of Naseer’s presented categories together (Myers & DeWall, 2016) which can accommodate for the stress branching out notion discussed before.

Everyone experiences stress in a different way: some shut down while others cry or become frustrated. Moreover, although a instinctual necessity, too much stress can definitely cause problems for one’s physical or psychological well-being. When I get too stressed, for example, my immune system drops which causes me to get sick sometimes even three times in a month. Other times, I just have to take breaks from my responsibilities to prevent myself from breaking down or becoming so exhausted that I cannot finish the task at

Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand; it can be caused by both good and bad experiences.

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).

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.

Stress is a real and difficult problem in today’s society. Gone are the 9 – 5 work days. With the

The article is in favour of the fact that stress is unavoidable and should be confronted. This article is not research directed or has a purpose in determining whether or not stress is prevalent in life and if there is a way of dealing with it. This article leans towards the idea that yes, stress is inevitable, and yes, there are proven ways of coping with it. The second weakness of the article is the fact that quantitative evidence is not present in the article. Without actual data, it is hard for the reader to picture the facts. Facts that show the success of these methods or figures showing decreased levels of stress when using these methods would make the arguments more

      Stress is an ongoing dilemma that occurs in each and everyone’s life. It is a factor that is undoubtedly a part of daily living. Due to the trivial problems that occur in people’s daily lives massive amounts of stress can arise. People perceive and manage stress in many different ways. The causes and effects of stress are numerous and one’s ability to manage stress is vital in maintaining healthy living.

Psychological stress is a result of many factors and should be dealt with very carefully. Stress can be defined as “An excess of demand made upon the adaptive capabilities of the mind and body”.(Joseph 1). Another way of putting it, is that there are some things that put certain demands on us. The effects of stress should not be limited to unpleasant emotional states. Many studies have concluded that the effects on our physical health from stress can be extremely detrimental. These adverse physical effects include heart disease and formations of cancer. There are also some societal issues that psychological stress can hamper.

As one has seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions, confrontations, and even our frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment to our lives. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or rejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling "tied up in knots." What one needs to do is find a safe level of stress, which will individually motivate but not overwhelm them.

Psychological and physical well-being and the overall quality of life are under a constant threat of stress and thus, psychological and medical sciences have long been concerned with studying stress response. Cox (1979) claimed that because of the poor understanding and defining it, the concept of stress tends to be rather elusive. The term, “stress”, commonly describes any physchological or physical alteration that deranges the organism’s homeostasis (or balance). This essay reviews some of the biological factors involved in stress and it has been organized in the following way. The paper begins by briefly introducing the concept of stress. It will then go on to discus and describe the automatic response (fight or flight reaction),

Stress can come in all sizes and shapes, and no matter its form we are all greatly affected by it (Abnormal Psychology Pg. 177). Stress can come from something as small as being late to something or from something as massive as a traumatic event like war. Wherever source stress comes from, everyone experiences it in their lives, probably on a daily basis. Americans have a few top stressors that are common amongst most adults. These stressors include things like job pressure, money, health, and many more. Fortunately, there are ways that adults can combat these stressors and reduce the implication that the stress puts on their lives.