Star Food By Ethan Canin: The Struggles Of A Man

As a Richland Collegiate High School student, I am always attacked by stressors in my academic life. The stress provoked by school-related objects often bled into my home and social life. It created an unhealthy environment where I felt weighed down by the stress. Due to the stress, I often lost my appetite and started sleeping less. My mother worried that I was depressed or that I was developing an eating disorder, but I just did not know how to pick myself up and just get things done. I lacked motivation, self-control, and a healthy balance of work and relaxation. Throughout the course, I have been picking up on some of the strategies I can use to help alleviate my stress and subsequently improve other aspects of my life.

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

Stress is part of our everyday life and not all stress is negative. It affects everyone and no one is excluded but I have extra hard time managing my stress. I get stressed over being a full-time student because I work full-time as well. When you are trying to succeed in school but also have to support your family, it becomes hard to manage. I don’t get enough time to study for a test and complete my assignments. This is a problem because I set a high expectation for myself and any work I do can’t be less than my best. It doesn’t help that my brain overthinks everything but it has its uses. I would stay awake at night because of the overall stress at work and school. In addition, I often contemplate humanities future and what

School is my main source of stress as this is my first year of college, and it’s a huge change from high school. Paul M. Insel and Walton T. Roth in “Common Sources of Stress”they talk about the many different

I tend to be stressed out more during the school year, even more so, since I am entering my final year of college. As college is finalizing, not only do I have to deal with my final year, but also worry about grad school. One area I struggle with is multitasking. I get overwhelmed if I have more than a couple things on my mind. I would get headaches and had difficulty sleeping. When stressed, I will be short tempered and act nasty towards my close friends and family. Finally, the most stress I experience comes from the immense pressure and high expectations I put upon myself. I never gave myself a break, and I frequently critiqued myself. I asked myself do I want to spend the rest of my life like this? Asking this provoked me to start coping with stress and learn how to react less (manage/cope) to situations and challenges. If I find myself overwhelmed I will stop, relax, and approach these tasks one at a time. Coping with stress is not easy, but changing how I reacted to certain situations eliminated most of it. Also, doing any form of aerobic exercise (jogging, dancing, and swimming) is great for reducing stress (Myers & Dewall, p.507). Aerobic exercise gives me more energy, helps me sleep better, and elevates my mood (Myers & Dewall, p.507). Life gets more stressful as we get older and we obtain more responsibilities. If I did not learn to cope with stress now, it would greatly

When evaluating our options, there was only one topic that really jumped out at us. With finals week upon us after a senior year that felt like an eternity, what better topic is there to analyze than stress and learning how to manage it? High school is when it really starts to hit hard: due-dates, extensive research papers, SATs, PARCC, SRI, ASVAB, and just about any other silly concoction of letters that represent assessments; you name it. However, while it does play a prominent role in our lives, stress is not exclusive to students alone. Anyone with a job, a spouse, a pet, a sibling, or even a beating heart, for that matter, has experienced stress and all of its glory. We believe understanding its core fundamentals is the most important part in managing it.

The results of the attached Stress Hybrid Assignment Questionnaire No. 1 (See Appendix A) indicate that my stress level is slightly higher than average in the age and gender category, and moderately lower in the marital status category. However, my total scores on the College Stress on-line test (See Appendix A) “…places [me] well below the average of colleges student in terms of the amount of stress experienced in the last year”.

The first of my stressors is school; school is a stressor because it is more demanding than it was in past years there it is now asking more from me along with all my other responsibilities. School takes up a lot of time

You ask me what is stress? As I stand here with no sleep, dark bags under my eyes, you ask me “What is stress?” well what makes you think I know stress? Is it the dead look in my eyes? Or maybe its the fact that i can barely keep my eyes open since my teachers all think their class is more important than any form of social life or heaven forbid another class. It’s both right? Yeah it is, how can we be expected to relieve stress if the things that we do to relieve stress make us more stressed, or we had to stop what we enjoyed doing to work on meaningless essays and questions that never end. That is what stress is, its that gnawing feeling that even if you do everything right you may have to do even more and it just piles on never endingly until it eventually collapses because students weren't meant to handle this level of stress, and when it collapses everyone acts like they understand but they don't. They say “why are you stressed when i was your age…” here’s the heartbreaking truth that was you not me.

Psychological stress is pressure placed on a person to adapt, cope, or adjust to a situation (Rathus, 2016, p.284). The result of prolonged stress can affect a person’s mood, pleasure experience, and have harmful effects on physical health (Rathus, 2016, p.284). Society in the twenty first century places high demands on people. Technology makes it very difficult to separate work life, school life, and home life. Today, society places a high value on a busy lifestyle for individuals. For example, many places of business are open twenty-four hours a day. In addition to societal pressures, attending a university adds to the stressors a person may experience. Going to school not only includes classroom time but it also includes homework,

Stress, in everyday standings, is a sensation that a lot of folks have when they are burdened and struggling to deal with stresses of life. These difficulties can be associated with personal finances, relationships, work and other circumstances, that possess a perceived trial or harm to an individual's happiness that result to stress. As young grownups move into university or colleges they become more independent with the choices they make and the transition from home with parents that they depend on to being alone with no one they know could be take a toll on them. This then creates an

An interview with Tracey Williams about stress was very eye opening on how students could deal with these things in their life’s. Tracey Williams was asked if students go to her for stress. She had said that yes, a lot of students go to her for stress and anxiety. Stress and anxiety are the main reasons why students visit her. Tracey Williams believes that stress cannot be “solved” within one session with her. Especially huge emotional stress. This kind of stress is hard to pinpoint so what Tracey will do is get her patients to open up to her so she can find what is exactly causing the stress in their life’s. Then after what is causing the stress is pinpointed then she will tell them to either cut back on hours at work or maybe even cut back on hours at school. The advice she gives them is depending on each and every student so not all of the advice can help every single student. “There is not just one single “bullet” to get rid of

Stress, we all struggle with it. We know it can shorten our lives, age us too early, make us miserable and unhealthy- yet we cannot seem to getaway it. I would like to begin my paper with a little description of myself. After spending years of training for a career in accounting, I truly had no idea about science. Even though I have been trying to live healthy by eating the right food and doing regular exercise, I had no idea how much damage stress has been causing me both physically and mentally. I find this class to be one of the biggest wake up calls in my life. After taking this class, I realized that I tend to have excessive ACG and BC activity problems; I experience physical stress symptoms all the time, I worry too much about the

Stress is something that everyone experiences. Pressure to excel at what you do, pressure to impress others, pressure to succeed in life: these are all stresses that we deal with on a daily basis. Our school-related stresses usually have to do with grades, our teachers, and our peers. But look halfway around the world, and you’ll find that our stresses seem miniscule compared to those of Chinese students.