Stress
In every day modern life, the demands of work, social life, hobbies, family and friends often leaves us feeling that we cannot fore fill our commitments and nearly everyone has a situation in their lives where they are left feeling stressed. However not all stress is harmful, as stress is our body’s natural reaction to fear or change. Some levels of stress are normal. For example in the work place stress may help achieve a higher level of work when required, how many times have we been required to provide a piece of work that needs to be done in a short amount of time? The adrenaline starts pumping round your body, and you concentrate on the task in hand and when the task has been completed you feel a sense of achievement that you have completed that task. However if you are constantly put in stressful situations , where you are constantly stressed and working long hours this is where stress can be harmful. Stress can also be a learnt behaviour, often if a parent is stressed the child will pick up on the stressed behaviours of that parent often resulting in the child not being able to cope in stressful situations very well .
It has been reported that 10% of the population report suffering from either chronic or constant stress. In 1999 the Roper Starch Survey, which studied 30,000 people from 30 different countries, there ages ranged between13 to 65 produced the following findings:
“Women who work full-time and have children under 13 report the greatest stress worldwide
Nearly one in four mothers who work full-time and have children under 13 feel stress almost every day
Globally 23% of women executives and professionals and 19% of their male peers say they feel ‘super stressed’” Chrysalis hand out module 5 page 3.
Stress types are broken into the following categories:
Hypostress: Stress that comes from being under stimulated, or bored, and