...The problem in my life that I would like to solve is how to manage my stress better. I believe this is called stress management. Stress management is designed to help people reduce or cope with stress. A certain amount of stress is considered healthy and beneficial for people to have. But there are those that get stressed out over everything in their life and that is the stress that needs to be managed. The type of information I will gather to help me solve this problem are articles about stress and where stress comes from and articles on how to cope with stress in a healthy manner. These articles are available in various magazines and are reprinted on the health sites found on the internet. Since there are so many sites dedicated to stress management, it will be a challenge to read everything and decide which ones are reliable and which ones are not. There are many articles written by doctors, nurses, and health enthusiasts about stress management. The first step to fixing my problem is to gather information. Once all the information is gathered, the next step is to read it all through. As I read the information, I will be making notes and writing down which article I took the notes from. When everything has been read, I will then go through my notes and see if there are duplicates. Then I will correlate all my thoughts into cohesive sentences. My thoughts on how to get the information I need are is what I am reading valid? How much research did the author of this article...
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...Stress Management The problem in my life that I would like to solve is how to manage my stress better. I believe this is called stress management. Stress management is designed to help people reduce or cope with stress. A certain amount of stress is considered healthy and beneficial for people to have. But there are those that get stressed out over everything in their life and that is the stress that needs to be managed. The type of information I will gather to help me solve this problem are articles about stress and where stress comes from and articles on how to cope with stress in a healthy manner. These articles are available in various magazines and are reprinted on the health sites found on the internet. Since there are so many sites dedicated to stress management, it will be a challenge to read everything and decide which ones are reliable and which ones are not. There are many articles written by doctors, nurses, and health enthusiasts about stress management. The first step to fixing my problem is to gather information. Once all the information is gathered, the next step is to read it all through. As I read the information, I will be making notes and writing down which article I took the notes from. When everything has been read, I will then go through my notes and see if there are duplicates. Then I will correlate all my thoughts into cohesive sentences. My thoughts on how to get the information I need are is what I am reading valid? How much research did the...
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...Literature Review Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Stress is different for each person. What one person feels is a stressful situation, another individual might not find stressful at all. People also handle stress differently. There is a lot of interpretation when it comes to stress. People deal with stress in a variety of ways. Some people handle stress better than others. Through the experiments we read about throughout the class we learned people handle stress differently and are influenced by the behaviors of others when it comes to a stressful situation. Introduction On the Holmes and Rahe self-assessment I scored a 120. This gives me a low chance of becoming ill in the future. On the Holmes and Rahe college student self-assessment, I don’t remember my exact score, but it was less than 150 which indicates mild stress. Nothing really stood out to me the most when I took these assessments. I completed these same assessments in the last course I completed at SNHU. My results did not surprise me. What I found most interesting is that the items that gave me the most points were things that I did not see as stressful events. To me Christmas and vacation are fun and relaxing events. I never really stress about either of those events. I do see where some people might find them stressful though. I seem to have a good handle on things, my life has been calm lately and I don’t have much stress to deal with...
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...Associate Level Material Stress and Illness in the Workplace Matrix Use the following table to describe the relationship between stress and health in the workplace and to identify ways to reduce stress in the workplace. If you use additional sources, include citations consistent with APA guidelines. |What is the relationship between stress and health in the workplace? |The relationship between stress and health can be regarded as a physiological aspect that could affect health and wellness. Stress| | |in the workplace can lead to a person becoming ill or shutting down both mentally and physically. Stress can not only open up a | | |person to illness but also hinder their ability to heal and get over an illness (Sarafino, 2011). | |Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a |All the dental assistants in my clinic called in sick, leaving me to deal with most aspects of patient care along with my | |fictional example. |administrative duties. Prioritizing patients and my normal workload became very stressful as I was trying to answer the phones, | | |schedule patients...
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...struggled with is stress. Things stressed the most about, is school, sports and the future. Psychology is basically the science or study of mental life. When I took my first Psychology class I thought that it was going to be all about mental disorders and stuff related to that, but was surprised to find out that it had everything to do with everyday life; mental portrayed into physical and every other dimension of health. The biggest thing that I’ve struggled with in my life is stress. Never have I been able to find a solution as to either erasing it or controlling it to a point to where it didn’t affect me in a major way. Because of this reason, everyday became an obstacle and things just became so much more difficult to deal with than they truly had to be. It’s still something I struggle with to this day, and it will always be there in my life, but through this class I have learned that it is something that CAN be dealt with to a point where it doesn’t control my happiness. Senior year in high school we were assigned to find a topic for an informative speech. I was so lost in finding a topic until I thought about something that I could relate with very well. Then it hit me that even though stress wasn’t or at least didn’t sound like an interesting topic, it turned out to surprise me with everything that I learned about it. There was the typical ‘everyone stresses over different things, people deal with stress in different ways, and how people were affected by stress differed.’...
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...Associate Level Material Stress and Illness in the Workplace Matrix Use the following table to describe the relationship between stress and health in the workplace and to identify ways to reduce stress in the workplace. If you use additional sources, include citations consistent with APA guidelines. What is the relationship between stress and health in the workplace? The relationship between stress and health can be regarded as a physiological aspect that could affect health and wellness. Stress in the workplace can lead to a person becoming ill or shutting down both mentally and physically. Stress can not only open up a person to illness but also hinder their ability to heal and get over an illness. Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a fictional example. All the dental assistants in my clinic called in sick, leaving me to deal with most aspects of patient care along with my administrative duties. Prioritizing patients and my normal workload became very stressful as I was trying to answer the phones, schedule patients, assist the dentists, take x-rays, etc. I was extremely stressed the whole day and went home feeling stressed as well since I did not accomplish everything I needed. I felt like I had accomplished nothing and spent all day jumping from one thing to another. List ways to reduce stress in the workplace from the situation or example you provided. • Prioritize – list everything that needs to be accomplished...
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...A year that is there to make memories that will last a lifetime, to have an emotional roller coaster about leaving the people you have grown up with, and the numerous applications to fill out could be a definition for senior year. Every year leading up to senior year is taken as a leadway, but the dreaded year comes when students, who still have to raise their hand to go to bathroom, must make decisions about their future. Senior year is a reminder that not everything works out as planned and things have no choice but to change. Through the jumbled up mess of senior year students need to take time to relax and be a kid for the last time before they enter the real world as adults. The emotions will start out as a high going into the last first...
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...Madden April 20, 2014 Stress on Young Adults Adolescences and Young adults go through one of the most stressful time periods in their lives, with body transformations to imbalanced emotional levels, growing up into adulthood is a difficult task. Especially when that adolescent grew up into an adult quicker then they imagined. Young adults are not prepared to handle the next level in their life, and did not take classes of how to prepare for the real world in college, instead got thrown into the real world with no experience on hand. With that said, very little time is given for the young adult to understand and comprehend everything that is occurring in their lives and this leads to serious stress and health problems that can be irreversible. A majority of American teenagers follow the same path that their parents had done before them; graduate high school, get into a major university, graduate with a degree, go straight into the workforce, and work. By the time a college student finishes and acquires their degree, they survived on how to deal with stress that finals week can give with cramming five exams in one week and meeting deadlines due to procrastination. With all of these last minute stressors it can cause rapidly increase stress level in a very short amount of time. According to the American Psychological Association, stress leads to an increase of heart rate and can even cause a sudden death if the person is dealing with a huge amount of stress load in a short amount...
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...limits Stress, Bottom Line up Front (BLUF), is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A recent study revealed that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new research crossing the disciplines of psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and genetics, the mechanisms underlying the connection are rapidly becoming understandable. Stress begins with the perception of danger by the brain, and it appears that continued stress can actually bias the brain to perceive more danger by altering brain structures such as those which govern the perception of and response to threat. Prolonged exposure to cortisol inhibits the growth of new neurons, and can cause increased growth of the amygdala, the portion of the brain that controls fear and other emotional responses. The end result is heightened expectation of and attention to threats in the environment. Stress hormones also inhibit neuron growth in parts of the hippocampus, a brain area essential in forming new memories. In this way, stress results in memory impairments and impairs the brains ability to put emotional memories in context. Think of it this way: Too much stress and you forget not to be stressed out. These brain changes are thought by some researchers to be at the heart of the link between stress and depression one of stress s most devastating health consequences as well as posttraumatic stress disorder...
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...What is Stress? Webster defines: It a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes’s bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. Stress is also feeling that’s created when we react to a particular event. It something we are not aware of, and sometime cannot control. Some would define stress as our reaction to the ups and downs of everyday life. Others might define stress as worry, pressure, tension, etc. Stress is defined as the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed on it, by Dr. Hans Seyle. In other words, anything that causes a "change or a reaction" in your body is called stress. In today world lot of us are unaware this is a problem until it’s too late. One of the biggest questions is how do you deal or release it? There are many ways people deal with stress. Although people often react to stress in harmful ways, they can react to it in positive ways. People may deal with stress in harmful ways. Some individuals could harm themselves trying to relieve stress. For example, some may overeat or smoke a lot; they sometimes get addicted to very harmful things that could eventually cause them to get ill. I have a friend who smokes drugs to relax from stress (weed). He shares this helps him get rid of stress (I feel this is only hurting him more).Many people sometimes blow up their tension, which ends up hurting close friends and family and even their relationships. This is something that everyone around the world shares .we...
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...have the most impact on us in our life. Everyone will have there ups and their downs but it is how we go about making changing in life is what matters. Growing up and being in high school nothing really changed me and made me realize that life is changing. However college is when it all started, the stress the crazy homework that you try to balance with work, the long sleepless nights. College was and is the big turning point in my life. Before college everything is easy and there is no worries. But as soon as you walk thru college doors for the first time that is when I realized my life is going to be changed for ever. I will be worrying about test and quiz because it's not like high school if I fail I could take them again. No if you fail that is a mark against you for your future. As well as all the stress you need to learn ways to deal with stress and lastly work, you need to find ways where you can still work as well as balance school....
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...from depression from time to time, with no particular triggers that bring it on, but only lasts for a day or two. Stress is the main issue in my life, as I stress over everything. Stress is a common problem that affects almost all of us at some point in our lives. Learning to identify when you are under stress, what is stressing you, and different ways of coping with stress can greatly improve both your mental and physical well being. Stress can affect both your body and your mind. People under large amounts of stress can become tired, sick, and unable to concentrate or think clearly. My biggest stresses would be school, family, and money. School has been great so far, but I stress about getting all my work done on time, writing papers because I don't feel I am that good at it, and having to go to the campus for classes rather than online. I stress over my daughter, if she is safe when shes at school, if kids are being mean to her, if she is happy with life, if my parenting skills are going to help her become a decent adult, and so much more. Finances are always difficult, I manage my money pretty well in regards to paying my bills on time every month but not so much in regards to saving. I like to spend money on my daughter and our home which I could be putting away for emergencies or the future. I have tried to use different techniques to manage my stress, but I have always...
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...In the human body, there are two nervous systems and the jobs that the two systems accomplish are not only different, they are the complete opposite. These two systems are called the sympathetic (stress) and the parasympathetic (relaxation) systems and they control what is commonly know as the flight or fight response, or stress. Thankfully, these two systems work together to create a healthy balance. However, this is not always the case as the sympathetic system can be easily triggered by an external factor (anything that happens outside of the body) and, when prolonged, can cause problems to the physical and mental health of an affected person. Stress is not something that is new to Australia as an Australian organisation, Lifeline, reported...
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...is a problem I always try my hardest to fix the problem. Sometimes I don’t resolve the problem but I do my best to give suggestions to fix the problem. Some of the time I have problems of my own but I never give up I like to approach the problem and fix it step by step. My two emotional intelligences that I think are the weakest to me is stress tolerance and optimism. I don’t know how to get my stress under control sometimes. I feel that when I have a lot of things going around my life and I do have enough time to do everything. Like when I have a lot of homework due that week and I don’t have time to do it I get stressed out a lot. I have found ways to reduce my stress by just try to set aside times to do stuff. Sometimes by taking a break sometimes it also helps me reduce my stress it gets my mind off of things. Optimism is my other weak emotional intelligence. Sometimes I don’t see the “bright side” of everything. I’m not confident about myself. When something difficult happens to me I do not always know how to face the problem. But I’ve been working on being optimism that everything happens for a reason and that at the end everything will turn out good and will turn out like I want it...
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...Everyone feels stressed now and then. For some it is simple to manage, but for others it can be quite difficult. When struggling to cope with stress, I’ve found that a more effective way is to reappraise the situation. There are always things that you dislike and cannot change, but you can always change the way you look at them. Taking a challenging situation and finding something good about it, will make it a much simpler thing to deal with. Between personal experience and caring guidance I have learned the benefits of looking on the bright side of things. Stress was always much more familiar than I would have liked it to be. As a child I was never educated on neither recognizing nor dealing with stress, so when it frequently overwhelmed me, I became miserable. My guess is that I probably mastered pessimism by the time I was 3 years old. Naturally I don’t know when it truly began, but I do know that I can only ever remember being negative. Being unable to deal with ever-increasing stressors made me a very cynical person for a very long time. Finally, when I was 25, a new co-worker introduced me to the power of positivity. Not that no one else had ever tried to, but she was different in her persistence, intelligence, and caring. When I would complain about something, she would always point out something positive about it. For a long time I basically ignored her attempts to help me. One day it all made sense. I remember finally realizing that there are things...
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