Stress Managing Assignment Analysis

The Stress Managing assignment was for students to understand how to cope with stress as well as figure out what may cause these stressors and negative thoughts. The purpose of this assignment was to answer 4 questions out of the 8 questions provided, and to write 2 pages for each questions resulting in 8 pages all together. The questions all related to the textbook “Becoming a Helper”, written by Marianne Schneider Corey and Gerald Corey. The specific questions that were chosen were 1.) What are your major stressors, at home and at work and/or school? 2.) Identify a few of your negative thoughts that tend to result in stress for you? 3.) What can you do to challenge your self-defeating thinking? How effective are you generally in disputing your self-defeating thinking? 4.) There is a section dealing with your personal strategy for self-care. Identify and discuss a few strategies for …show more content…
Home is the place where I can be the least stressed most of the time, but the place where I can take all my frustration at. Home is where all my love ones are either it being in my apartment in Morehead living with my boyfriend, or being able to go home in Ohio to my parents. Either way, I can come home and be able to talk to someone about what I’m worried about or having difficulty with either with school or work. They are there to listen and give me advice whenever I need it, and sometimes it all the time. Being at home is where I’m the least stressed, but I can sometimes become really stressed when the apartment is a mess and there is dishes in the sink that haven’t been washed or I feel like I’m the only one who cleans the apartment. I especially get this way when we are expecting company over, and I’m running around the apartment like a chicken with its head cut off. All in all, my apartment is a place where I can relax and just be