The Causes Of Stress Management

A. Attention getter: We’ve all had days when everything seems to go wrong. You’re getting ready for work and you spill coffee on yourself. On your way to work, you get a speeding ticket. When you get to work, everyone needs your help. Your day ends at work, you finally get home to sit and relax but wait, the kids are hungry and the house is a mess. When does it end!

A paper due, bills to pay, kids are screaming, a test in every class, going through a divorce, meetings to attend and going to soccer practice after school. These are just a few everyday aspects of life. Everyone is busy in today’s multitasking world. However, it is important to stop and think, even on the most hectic days. People were definitely not as stressed in past years. Stress is more prevalent now than ever. To show this, the definition of stress will first be shown, which will have research on internal and external issues related to it, and then the time lapse in mental health will be presented, along with long-term health effects that stress can cause and finally how stress can be managed.

capabilities, resulting in biopsychological charges that may make him/her of risk for disease. Effects may vary from one person to another. (Niabi; H. et. al., 2013)

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.

Many believe that stress is a simple problem, however it is often misunderstood and more complex than they believe (p. 181, Griffin & Moorhead, 2014). Stress is the physiological and psychological response to excessive and usually unpleasant stimulation as well as threatening events in the environment (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). Stress appears in silent and subtle ways but this negative response affects millions of employees in all levels of all types of jobs (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). If identified

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

      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.

Stress is a well-known contributor to a degraded quality of life. Stress can put one into a state of despair, as well as cause many negative health effects. The different types of stress include acute stress, prolonged stress, and chronic stress. Stress is influenced by stressors, which are variables that cause stress to occur. In addition to there being several types of stress, there are many symptoms associated with stress; symptoms of stress include increased heart rate, rise in blood sugar, rapid blood clotting, and increased respiration (Antai-Otong 31). Studies on stress have been conducted since 1925. In 2009, a study was conducted on the impact of stress within the United States. The results of the study were staggering; out of the adult respondents, 24% reported high levels of stress and 51% reported moderate levels of stress. This study proves that most adults live with stress (Rizzolo and Sedrak 20). In recent years, humans as a whole have become more familiarized with stress and how stress is formed. Most people have a basic knowledge of factors that cause stress; however, effective ways to reduce and mitigate stress is not well known. One will find stressors everywhere; one might ask how it is possible to relieve stress with so many stress causing factors in the world. Dana Wyner asked the same question, “How can clinicians assist such clients in learning to find tranquility

Everybody has at least one thing in common. Can you guess what it is? If you guessed, heartbreak, you’re right, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. The correct answer is stress. Everyone has stress in his or her life at one point or another. It’s one of many inevitable parts of life. Whether it’s busting out a research paper for Psychology at the last minute, expecting your first child to be born, to making sure you’re up in time to catch the Saturday morning cartoons, it’s clearly evident that everyone goes through stress. The real question is, how is stress handled in our society? A person is defined by how they handle the stressors in their lives and how they overcome stressful moments. This paper will explore the aspects of

Stress is one of the most common symptom of life. No one knows how to treat it. There has been no “forever” cure. Only ways to prevent it, short-term.

Obviously, whether we want or not, stresses are happening everyday in our life. They can come from the external impact like an exam is coming, to the internal impact as pressure from yourself to achieve an A score; or from a small problem with low intensity like a traffic jam on the street, to a big issue with high intensity like being in a huge terrorism. It seems that we cannot run away from stress, it is something irresistible that we have to accept. Because stress is unavoidable, we need to learn how to deal with them efficiently. Some kinds of stresses can bring to us positive effects that motivate us to handle things better, but majority of them give us bad feelings and negative effects to our general health. As my personal hardly to find the balance between study, work, and family, I am right now struggling of dealing with stresses, that are caused by the pressure from assignments and exams in studying, workloads of my job and the responsibility to take care my family. Reading the article “ How Stress Affects Your Health” on the American Psychological Association website, I can get more valuable understandings about stress, have connected to some knowledges that I learnt in my Psychology class until now and draw some beneficial learnings to apply in my practical life.

Stress is part of life and can be negative or positive. While a person does not always have control over the stressors in one’s life, he or she does have control over how one chooses to handle them. Stress management is a key element to having a rewarding, pleasant life. Recognizing the signs of oncoming stress or stressful situations, using techniques to eliminate or minimize the stress, and accepting that stress is an everyday human experience can help a person better deal with the effects. This paper explores the causes of stress and methods used to alleviate stress.

In this modern era, they are full of demands, hassles, deadline, and frustrations. In context of psychology, we describe stress as a feeling of pressure, strain or as a feeling of being overloaded (Bickford, 2005). The sign of it may include feelings of anxiety, tense, worried, insecurity, nervousness, social withdrawal, depression, overwhelmed and various sign. When we are face a stressful condition our bodies respond to it by activating our hormones like adrenaline rush which causes physical changes in our body to help deal with the stressful situation. Bare in mind to deal does not mean to eliminate stress rather learning to administer it. These also refer to as the ‘fight or flight’ response of our cognitive and physical reaction. Stress is not necessary harmful but if it gets out of hand it will interfere with our abilities of continuing of daily life activities (Bickford, 2005).

methods of coping with stress will be given, but limited to ones examined in the

    Stress today can be described as "that which disturbs a person's mental and physical well-being" (Morrison 1).  Common symptoms of stress include chronic fatigue, changes in appetite, drug and/or alcohol abuse,  difficulty sleeping, body aches, and changes in emotions (Cooper 1-2).  And although stress is something that is inevitable, it can be controlled.  Just about everything we do today creates stress, both good and bad.  In the face paced and technological world we live in, stress management is key to survival as well as sanity.