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    This essay discusses the importance of stress management. It covers the signs and symptoms of stress. The essay also covers some links between health and stress. Coping with stress and stress management are also discussed. Stress effects one’s cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral function and requires management in order to maintain health and daily functionality. What is Stress? According to Psychology by Ciccarelli and Noland stress is defined as “the term used to describe the physical

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    tell her not to worry. Stress or overthinking an issue, so little can be enormous to others. Stress is a physical and emotional factor that disturbs the body’s normal state of functioning, daily people struggle with stress everyday. The term stress comes from the field of physics by one of the fathers of stress research Hans Selye in 1936. He insisted that stress was a non-specific strain on the body caused by irregularities in normal body functions (”History of stress”). Stress is one of bodily or

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    Cartwright (1997) determined that “the word stress comes from the Latin word "stringere", meaning literally to be drawn tight and used in the 17th century to describe difficulty, stress, misery, or suffering.” Smith (1993) wrote that root words of stress are based on internal feeling very depressed, feeling under anxiety. Nowadays, stress becomes part of life. Stress is emotional when faced with various problems. That makes people feel uncomfortable, frustrated or oppressed. Pressure to cause distress

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    Taking a Look at Stress

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    Stress is the feeling created by the body when it reacts to certain events that put tension or strain upon one’s physical, mental, or emotional state. Acute stress, is short term stress that can last anywhere from three days to four weeks. On the other hand, chronic stress is a more serious problem because it is long term stress and can impact health even more. When under constant stress, also known as hyperarousal, blood pressure rises, breathing and heart rates speed up, blood vessels constrict

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    Every body experience stress differently, this phase include a series of physiological events with physical and behavioral symptoms , dealing and handling with it, when you must perform is very difficult . Anxiety become worst when you are outside your comfort zone. Why theses happening ? Stress is causes by an increase of glucocorticoids in the blood, the hypothalamus become under alerte and secretes a hormone call CRH (corticotropin-releasing hormone) and reach the adrenal glands which can

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    describing the models of stress, describing the coping strategies of stress and describing different responses to stress. Describe the models of stress Model 1-states that ‘stress is a physical response’. This model only focuses on what happens to you when you’re stressed. Model 2 (Holmes and Rahe) - Life events theory: A group of life vents researches told individuals what made them stressed and grouped them into big and small stressors. This theory stated that the stress is ‘the things in your life’

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    Acute Episodic Stress

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    Stress pertaining to a person is defined as a state of being in which the emotional and mental state is compromised due to unfavorable or demanding circumstances. In the workplace, is a very frequent occurrence among a wide variety of companies and positions, and can be considered the only common denominator in the workforce across every field of practice. However, it can be argued that stress is not inherently a negative thing. Studies have concluded that there are certain types of stress that are

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    for the statement that “Stress is in the eyes of the beholder”. Stress from the perspective of poetry is the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm. The process of working out which syllables in a poem are stressed is known as scansion; once a metrical poem has been scanned, it should be possible to see the matter. In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Stress in general is something

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    The Stress Process Paper

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    I have learned so much about stress process and how it affects health. Stress is how we understand and respond to stressors. I have learned we all appraise our stress and respond to the stressors differently. One important aspect about stress is that it can aid us or hinder us. For example, eustress, which is considered good stress, and distress, is known as bad stress. The process of stress can begin with us experiencing the stressor, then understanding how much control we have over the stressor

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    Causes Of Job Stress

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    The Risks of Job Stress According to the American Institute of Stress, stress is impossible to measure. What may be stressful for one person may not be stressful to another. There is good stress, which is also known as eustress, and that is a good feeling we get when something good, new, and exciting is happening. Then there is the not so good stress which only turns bad if it becomes chronic stress. The reason chronic stress is so worrisome is because we are not naturally made to deal with it for

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