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).

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

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

My day just started and I’m already beyond stressed; I had to wake up, fix my hair, put on makeup, find my suit, and then bring myself here, ugh. As a high school student, I go through a good bit of stress trying to juggle advanced placement classes, clubs, a social life, a job, and writing this oratory; it seems like I never get a break. According to the American Psychological Association, high school students score a 5.8 on a ten point scale of stress during the school year, whereas adults score a 5.1. To put those scores in context, the APA suggests that the healthy level for a high school student is a score of 3.9. Clearly, teens are inundated with high levels of stress, and to make matters worse, the adults around them often refuse

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

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

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”.

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.

That feeling of walking back from an exam or staying up all night cramming information is well known to any student who has been through college. It leaves one feeling overwhelmed like the week will never end. The feelings are held inside while friends and roommates accuse moodiness which leads to the meltdown that is inevitable. These times are a result of a common state known as stress. Stress is a condition in which the body responds to any kind of demand or threat caused by life factors which include pressure, work, school, major changes, and lack of sleep. This factor is very common in colleges, especially freshmen and can also be seen here at Trine University. Stress can affect both physical and mental conditions in the body, such as sleep patterns, eating habits, anxiety,

There are always things stressing us out, sometimes some more than others. My stress stems from my continuation of my education, from elementary school, high school, and College. From there on, it spread to my self-image; how I saw myself both physically and mentally. As I continued studying in College, money became an issue. I had to look for a job, eventually for that job I had to “change” and adjust to the norms and rules of the environment, all of which is difficult. How I see my stress is mentally draining and I feel the need to run a way. But that is not an option. Stress will always be with us. The important fact is how do we deal with it in a positive way and cope with it.

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

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

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 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.