Stress can happen to anyone at any time. People always mistake stress as only negative things, but there are both good and bad stress. First of all, what is stress or the definition of it? Stress is “Any event or environmental stimulus that we respond to because we perceive it as challenging or threatening” (Pastorino 504). In simpler terms, any event that a person encounters that could be difficult or threatening can give an individual stress. All of our reactions to it differ to every type of stressor. Our bodily reactions are also included to how we react to stress. After that, we deal with the stress by coping. Stressors can be divided into sub categories like catastrophes, major life events, daily hassles, and conflicts. Major life events …show more content…
To some, that might be frightening but of course, everyone handles stress differently, so it would not always be freighting to everyone. Or when buying your first car; people might find paying for the car very stress full. Daily Hassles are simple stressors that everyone encounters every day, such as daily traffic on the road, or always losing the television remote. They usually do not give off a lot of stress, but it certainly enough to frustrate to average human. Conflicts can include challenges like bad arguments with your parents, or moral conflicts within you. Lastly catastrophes like natural disasters or any memorable terrorizing events. For example, tornados or hurricanes are natural disasters. Also, 9/11 and the assassination of President Kennedy are examples of memorable terrorizing …show more content…
Where I lived, I was right in the path of the hurricane. Many of my friends were not so afraid of the hurricane because we all had an essay to write for and English class most of us were in. Our teacher assigned that essay I think the day off or the day before the hurricane. That was my stressor because if the hurricane turned off our power I would not have enough time to write my essay. I already predicted that the hurricane was going to turn off my power so I started my essay early on the day when the hurricane was supposed to hit. I was almost finished with my essay when I started to hear the wind gusts and the rain starting to hit hard on the roof. I started to panic because I needed my essay done so I do not have to worry about it anymore. Meanwhile the rest of my family was panicking about the storm that was approaching. Our house was a two story home and the wind was so strong I remember feeling slight shaking when I was upstairs in my room. My grandmother feared that the house was going to cave in so she called us all downstairs just to be sure that we would all be safe. She was stressing about the house so much because so much debris was hitting our house and later we even found that most of our shingles from the roof was