Teenage Stress

In everyone’s life a little stress must fall. We all have to deal with daily hassles and various personal stressors that effect our emotional and physical health. The manner in which we deal with these stressors can alleviate or reduce stress or it can make things worse. Mind and body issues have bemused philosophers and psychologists since the ancient Greeks; however recently a new subfield in psychology has immerged to investigate the subject. Health psychology focuses on psychological factors and how they relate to wellness and illness. This would include

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.

“For the next two days, Audrey lay in bed, trying to catch up on her sleep and stressing over taking sick days for the first time in her two and a half years of highschool.” (177)

Stress can get bad enough to where it starts to affect your body system. Things like depression, heart attacks, diseases, rashes and a low immune system can all occur to people dealing with stress bad enough. The number of common signs and symptoms is outrageous and is depressing to see that there are so many people dealing with this and how it’s such a common thing in this world. On stress.org, they talk about the different body systems and how they’re affected. The nervous, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastro and reproductive systems are all affected in some way and in many ways to say the least. If your stress ever gets so bad, I consider seeing a doctor or specialist seeing how dangerous this can get.

Type A personalities secrete more of the hormones that accelerate the build up of plaque on the hearts artery wall Chronic stress also contributes to inflammation which heightens the risk of clogged arteries and depression.

Stress can be the result of positive or negative changes a person may experience in their life. The Social Readjustment Rating scale is a study that has broken down common life changing possibilities a person could undergo in roughly a year into units. This study has shown that there is an increase in illness that coincides with person that has undergone over 150 units of life changing actions. Other factors that are considered is age, gender, and other individual characteristics. The physical impact on a person can range from headaches to as severe as a heart attack. An increase in stress will affect everyone a little different by triggering behaviors that may put them at risk for these symptoms. Examples of these behaviors are not sleeping,

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

According to ULifeline, “stress is a burst of energy that basically advises you on what to do. In small doses, stress has many advantages. For instance, stress can help you meet daily challenges and motivates you to reach your goals. In fact, stress can help you accomplish tasks more efficiently. It can even boost memory… [And] help to fortify the immune system.”

What is stress actually and how do we determine who is stressed? Most of us describe stress as when everything became too much that we are overloaded and wonder if we can cope with the amount of pressure placed upon us. Stress actually is anything that poses challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress. While most people took stress as something negative, it can also be a good thing as it gets you going in life – when there are problems which need to be solved as life would be dull, boring and pointless without any stress at all. However, stresses are bad when it undermines both our mental and physical health. In this text, I would like to focus on the major stressors in teens’ lives as we all know

Second, stress may result in a number of emotional problems. The most common ones are the feeling of being overwhelmed, depression, fear, and anger. However, students may also experience irritability, mood swings, bad temper, worrying, nervous laugh, and crying spells.

The fifth effect on your body is depression and anxiety. It's probably no surprise that chronic stress is connected with higher rates of depression and anxiety. One survey of recent studies found that people who had stress related to their jobs, like demanding work with few rewards had an 80% higher risk of developing depression within a few years than people with lower stress.

So what is stress? Stress is a normal physical response that happens when you feel threatened or upset. When you feel that you are in danger whether it is real or imaged. Your body has a response when stress occurs and it is a way of actually protecting you. Many times, stress helps people stay more focussed and energetic.

“Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances (Dictionary.com).” “Stress management is any technique developed to help someone cope with or lessen the physical and emotional effects of everyday life pressure (Dictionary.com).” There are different types of stress that we deal with on a daily basis, but sometimes we may not even know what type of stress we are dealing with. We deal with good and bad stress, but that’s why it is important to know about stressors our bodies are going through so that we can be aware of it and try to find a way to minimize stress. “Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating you to perform well on a job interview or speaking at an important event (American Psychological Association).” I find myself dealing with stress because of all the hard work I have to do in all my classes in order for me to keep a good grade in classes. I knew that I was stressing because my hands will get real sweaty, my heart beats really fast, I have panic attacks, and I get depressed so I had to relieve some of my stress by eliminating one of my classes and it helped me out a little bit. There are different types of stress levels; ways that can help you manage stress, and disadvantages/cons of stress.

      Stress can affect all aspects of one's mind and body.  Behaviorally, stress can cause anger, excessive crying, depression, apprehension, increased alcohol use, mood swings, and even suicide.  It can cause problems physically as well.  Anorexia, fatigue, trembling, loss of appetite, and headaches are just a few of the symptoms that overly stressed individuals may experience (Morrison 2).

“Stress is a silent disease” (Doctor Hobel). Over the years, stress has played a major rule in a large majority of people’s lives throughout the United States. When thought about, it is said to be extremely surprising as to how many people really have stress in each individual’s life. People do not consider what the reasons are for the feelings and emotions they experience. There are all different types of stress, and stress can do a lot to a person. Each person also handles stress in a different way. Some can handle more than others, because every single person’s body works in a different way. Stress has also been told to cause people to act out of character (Dr. David Posen). They often do not act the way they usually would while under