Stress And Eustress Analysis

I have had many experiences with stress and encounter it on a day to day basis so it was a little complicated when it came to choosing a particular experience to talk about. I think school stresses me out the most. School has always been a major stressor in my life. Although, this particular stressor causes both distress and eustress, I find it to cause distress a majority of the time. I find that the root of my distress comes from not getting a grade I wanted, having to keep up with due dates and assignments, studying, and most of all living up to someone’s expectations of me. Like I stated earlier, I experience eustress as well. When I get everything done on time, I make good grades, and receive praise from a family or faculty member it encourages me and makes me believe that the pressure I was under was …show more content…
As much as I hate to admit it, I struggle with procrastination. I have learned in high school as well as college that putting something off later and later will bring nothing but TROUBLE. Believe me when I say that procrastination’s best friend is frustration. For instance, I like to think I can study something the night before or even the day of and it will stick with me until I see it on the test. My theory has been proved right on some occasions but on the other occasions I was so wrong. Most of the time we don’t consider the outside factors of the world or we don’t review the things we learned and then realize at the last minute how lengthy or extensive the material may be. A lot of college assignments you have to submit online and when you wait until the last minute as I have done before, it seems like the world is out to get you. Your computer decides to not work or shut down in the middle of writing a 5 page paper. (Yes, this has happened to me and I’m still not over it.) As it says in the chapter, stress causes aggression and I now that I think about it I am very aggressive when I am