Three Levels Of Stress: Ameka's Three Stages

Stress is the process of measuring and responding to a threatening or challenging event. If it lasts a short time it can actually be beneficial and can mobilize the immune system to fight off infections and heal our wounds. Stress has an arousal property that motivates us to solve our problems. Extreme or prolonged stress on the other hand can be very harmful and can lead to chronic disease. Stressors fall into three categories: Catastrophic, significant life changes, and daily hassles. All can be bad for us.

You must try to change the situation or change your reaction to the situation. At times stress can be avoided. You must know your limits and stick to them. You must try to avoid people who stress you out. You must look at your daily work and decide between the “should” and the “must”. If you can’t avoid a stressful situation you would change things to avoid the problem in the future. You must focus on the positive things in life more than negative because by keep thinking about the negative things u will be more stressed. You must share your feelings with others and learn to forgive. You must also make time for fun activates and relaxation.

In chapter 13 we learned about many concepts and theories, but one of them is the four major types of stress. One of the four talks about frustration, which is when a person experience whenever the pursuit of some goal is blocked. This happens to me a lot when it comes down to homework or papers. For example, when I get an assignment for a paper and everything seems fine, but then I get stuck because I ran out of ideas to write about. When this happen I get very frustrated because all I want to do is just be done with the paper and get it out of the way. People should learn about this because they should know they are not alone in this situation. Everyone in the world gets frustrated about something going on in their life.

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

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

Psychological and physical well-being and the overall quality of life are under a constant threat of stress and thus, psychological and medical sciences have long been concerned with studying stress response. Cox (1979) claimed that because of the poor understanding and defining it, the concept of stress tends to be rather elusive. The term, “stress”, commonly describes any physchological or physical alteration that deranges the organism’s homeostasis (or balance). This essay reviews some of the biological factors involved in stress and it has been organized in the following way. The paper begins by briefly introducing the concept of stress. It will then go on to discus and describe the automatic response (fight or flight reaction),

When thinking about Evicted and the different chapters we have learned about in class, the first chapter that came to my mind as relating most to Evicted was the chapter Stress and Health. Many topics in that chapter appeared in the book and related to many of the problems that the characters were facing in Evicted. The characters in the book had stressors that affected them in their daily lives, which also caused many health problems in the long run.

During my nursing career, I have worked in many high stress areas (ex; labor and delivery, where not every outcome is great, medical surgical unit, where a lot of people would get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and neurosurgical unit, where I took care of many young individuals affected by glioblasoma multiforme) where my patients were depressed (acute depression) due to their diagnosis and were not sure how to cope with their situation. I did have several suicidal patients, as well. Reflecting on this week’s readings, especially on Meghan’s pp presentations, I must admit that I have to learn more about different depression and suicide tools that are available. That is going to help me not only in my current practice but also in the future.

Kelly McGonigal discusses the importance of viewing stress as positive, as opposed to negative, by detailing three specific studies and findings about stress. In the first study, it was discovered that people with a significant amount of stress had a higher mortality rate; however, this was only statistically significant if the subject viewed stress as harmful. If the overly-stressed subject didn’t view stress as harmful, they were actually at the lowest risk of dying, even compared to those with a minimal amount. Therefore, it is important to change a person’s perspective of stress. In particular, McGonigal emphasizes that stress is important for a person’s body: it energizes and prepares them to meet whatever challenge they are facing. Furthermore, it helps the blood vessels remain relaxed, thereby allowing the heart to remain healthy.

Keep in mind stress is a natural part of life It can and will become an issue when It causes long-term disturbance one’s life or takes a turn for the worse and brings about illness. Routine stress, what is called, the normal levels that can in power and encourage individuals as a whole, derationing our behavior along with addressing the matter at hand can enhance one in a positive method. However, in most contemporary lifestyles, the difficulties on individuals are colossal and most individuals discover themselves being, consumed with finding ways to cop, with the stressful situations of their ins and outs of everyday life. The three major contributing factors of stress, Appraisal-focused coping, Emotion-focused coping" and “Problem focusses coping” propose of methods to decrease stress: a biological approach or a psychological approach.

The status of our country in light of the President’s pending and future executive orders, ICIS, the overall economy; gas prices, housing, education, and taxes, and the civil state of our nation. I find these issues disconcerting.

When reading Chapter eleven titled Stress and Health Psychology, I couldn’t help but notice all the useful information noted on the pages dealing with the stress levels and health of ourselves and our peers. One piece of information that I already knew prior to this reading was how some particular changes or environmental demands can affect the way you feel, negatively, causing you to become overwhelmed and stressed; a stressor. I believe that you can develop stress from almost anything. According to Morris and Maisto (2016) you can, “Stress is not limited, however, to dangerous or unpleasant situations. Even everyday events or good things can also cause stress, because they necessitate a change or adaption” (p.386). Meaning you can lose a

Another form of mental stress is not talking, addressing or acknowledging your problems as the arise or in a timely matter. Mental stress factors are most commonly talked about and are perceived as negative but that is necessarily true. Just because there is a problem doesn’t mean it can’t be handled. However, either way you not handling them [stress or problems] will make your body pay the price [high bp and other health issues] for neglecting them.

Long term stress, distress, impacts the body and can inflict negative, long term damage. Physical symptoms of distress can manifest as headaches, upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, and problems sleeping, these are just a few of the many effects stress can inflict on the body (The effects of stress on your body 2014). As an adolescent many of these stress symptoms can be detrimental to Josh’s well-being and functioning in school, for example Josh should be receiving approximately ten hours of sleep a night, if he is unable to achieve that amount it can in turn present problems such as diabetes, obesity and depression (Sleep and sleep disorders 2015) this results in additional stress further exacerbating the issue and putting clients, like Josh, at serious risk of developing these health disorders.

“Stress can be defined as any event or environmental stimulus (stressor) that we respond to because we perceive it as challenging or threatening.” (Pastorino, 2013). Stress is common and occurs when someone is experiencing a certain standard of pressure toward a situation or event that seems hard to cope with. Stress is classified and divided into four major categories: major life events, catastrophes, daily hassles, and conflict. Stress levels vary from person to person and from situation to situation. Stress cannot caused an illness on its own but research has shown that stress can make us more susceptible to illness because stress can caused our immune system to be less effective. Therefore, under stress our bodies become more prone to devolving