Reflection Paper On The Stress Disorder

There are many different broad definitions of stress and how to cope with it, known as stress management.

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Chapter 6 covers the fundamentals of stress disorders. After reading this chapter discussing the fight and flight response, psychological stress disorders and physical stress disorders, I have a better concept of this subject itself. Our fight and flight response is trigger by our hypothalamus, which sends off neurons and chemical for our mind and bodies to react. As discussed in class, the autonomic nervous system control the involuntary activities like heartbeat and breathing. The sympathetic nervous system is aroused when we face danger (THE FIGHT). For example, the sympathetic nervous system makes our heart beat faster when we are scared. The parasympathetic nervous system (THE FLIGHT) help make us calm, like regulating our heartbeats.

In my work place setting, I work for a agency who works with families with children that are autistic or have behavioral problems. Moreover, with my job being an agency there are significant amount of flaws within this organization. Agencies in general seem to have many flaws. Furthermore, I experience a few stressors that effect me daily. One stressor that I experience is having to go to weekly supervision every Friday without pay. This is a stressor for me because my job location is not as close to my house, granted about 25 minutes from my home. So, the stress for me is driving all the way to my job location just to speak on actions of my client that are consistent each week. Other jobs that I have applied to previously compensate their workers for supervision weekly or give the option to have phone conferences about our clients.

“Acute Stress Disorder is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (e.g., witnessing a death or serious accident). As a response to the traumatic event, the individual develops dissociative symptoms. Individuals with Acute Stress Disorder have a decrease in emotional responsiveness, often finding it difficult or impossible to experience pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, and frequently feel guilty about pursuing usual life tasks” (Acute, 2016).

Post-traumatic stress disorders and acute stress disorders are probably more common than we think. Being sexually abused as a child or raped as an adult can cause this. Really any kind of abuse can cause these disorders. An example could be that a child of 2 years old was left in a house for 2 whole days completely alone to fend for himself. This would be traumatic for a child, especially that young. From then on, they would probably worry constantly about being abandoned. Maybe as an adult they would even have a hard time ever being alone.

In fact, psychiatrists have been force to diagnose their patients with diagnoses that were politically acceptable by insurance companies in order to satisfy billing and reimbursement for services. To illustrate, a young person who has experienced traumatic events such as witnessing the death of a love one, extensive sexual/physical abuse, or parental divorce might begin to display disruptive behaviors. As a result, the psychiatrist diagnosed the youth with an adjustment disorder because the child’s insurance will not compensate for the diagnosis of stress related disorder. In the same manner, billing the insurance company for the diagnosis of conduct disorder is more likely to be reimburse oppose to stress related disorders.

Throughout life stress is a common problem whether it’s at work, school or home. The many negative effects of stress in fact affect individuals differently varying from health issues to work performance. Therefore, all individuals have different views of stress and various ways of handling it or otherwise managing their stress. Stress is when any living thing feels endangered and its homeostasis is at risk (Varvogli & Darviri, 2011, p. 74). Ways of dealing with stress are efforts of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological nature that allows a person to manage stress. Although there are different causes of stress, there are also many techniques for relieving it. The following articles are intended for the reader to

Distress and eustress are both essential for survival. They cause a person to react differently in demanding situations. Good stress is helpful in keeping us productive and motivated to accomplish our goals. “Stress can sometimes be a positive, motivating force that can improve the quality of our lives. This kind of stress, called eustress”(PSY101-12.1). This kind of stress is helpful in bringing the best out of an individual. For example, eustress helps us prepare for an event, in the same way a boxer would train heavily to be in the best physical shape possible for his big fight. The stress would motivate the boxer to get up early and train everyday for a positive outcome of his fight and to be victorious the night of his bout. “But

Where most graduating students go, no one really knows for sure. Since many high school students are near graduation, some students have already planned their future while others are more indecisive. Eventually, high school has given options for students to prepare for the future, but it is still not enough for them to decide on where to go. Even at a very young age, students were always asked the same questions throughout their school years like, "Who do they want to be when they grow up? or What do they want to do when their older?" These questions have been lingering onto students socially, physically, and mentally into their past few years, which can pressure them to overthink about themselves.

When I think about our emotions and how they can play a role on our body and mind, I begin to realize that all of it correlates with one another. In the article Introduction to Stress and Stress Management, mentions how the brain is the first line of defense when a person encounters a stressor and what the body does to cope with the stressor is by releasing chemicals and hormones into the bloodstream (pg. 15). Neurotransmitters of serotonin and norepinephrine are both related to our mood, and their flow causes changes in our mood. We have also learned that there are two types of stressor, eustress and distress. 50 to 90 percent of illness are tied to stress reactivity (pg. 18). Which means if we could learn how to handle our stressors

At one time or another, most people experience stress. The term stress has been used to describe a variety of negative feelings and reactions that accompany threatening or challenging situations. However, not all stress reactions are negative. A certain amount of stress is actually necessary for survival. For example, birth is one of the most stressful experiences of life. The high level of hormones released during birth, which are also involved in the stress response, are believed to prepare the newborn infant for adaptation to the challenges of life outside the womb. These biological responses to stress make the newborn more alert promoting the bonding process and, by extension, the child's physical survival.

Before discussing the methods of emotion cause detection, it is important to understand the different basic sets of emotions used in the literature under review. James-Lange Theory of Emotions was one of the probably earliest study linking an individual's congitive consideration of an event and the corresponding response to that event. Over the time the basic set of emotions has been redefined many times, some of them being Hamburg (1968), Hinde (1972), Plutchik (1980), Emde and Goensbauer (1981), Ekman (1982), Konner (1982), and Turner (1996, 2000). The study \textit{Evolutionary Explanations of Emotions} by \textit{Randolph M. Nesse} is extremely detailed and explores the reason why basic set of emotions have been redefined over time and why researchers have failed to come to a consensus. In most of the emotion classification tasks, researchers have proposed the use of Plutchik's, Ekman's or Turner's set of emotions. Analyzing these three sets we see that \textit{fear}, \textit{anger} and \textit{sadness} are present in all emotion sets. Furthermore, \textit{happiness} was found to be present in two out of three lists. The following set of emotions with the modifications were found to be used in the research covered in this survey:

Ever since I can remember I have been the child who would get up on a chair in a room full of guests, and sing a song, or make a congratulatory speech. Throughout the years in primary and secondary school, I have always been in the first row. I was that student with perfect grades whose work everyone hoped to cheat off. Since early childhood, relatives would point at me telling their kids, “Why are you not more like her?” My pedestal has been raised higher than I have ever comfortable being. The pressure to perform is very high. When you have a reputation for being smart, many people assume that you can solve any problems that comes up and tackles every challenging obstacle in life.

Stress is physically and psychologically debilitating for humans. When an individual’s response to stress, their physical body discharges a substance of epinephrine and norepinephrine into the erythrocyte. These hormones instantly initiate the brain to flight-or-fight in response to threat or danger, which can positively or negatively influence a person’s behavior. For instance, a recently expelled college sophomore student got dismissed from a job, become a homeless person and owe an outstanding amount of loan from the U.S. bank in a period of time. The overwhelming, stressful situation such as this can disturb a person to have a nervous breakdown. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, approximately 44,193 of