Types of Stress
What is it like to live with stress; is it amusing, intermediate, or harmful? Everyday that we engage in life, we begin to adapt to the amount of stress that we face. Whether it’s enduring the hardest times under pressure, or just having fun at an amusement park; we face it, and we respond. Stress is our body’s response towards a certain situation, and those types of responses can be categorized as; good stress, social stress, and chronic stress.
Good Stress
This type of stress occurs widely to everyone, and we don’t even realize it. The fun moments that we do in life can be stressful, but not the type of stress that you are thinking about. Good stress for an example, is waiting for my turn in a suspenseful line; which …show more content…
In fact, sources of social stress are multiple and can be generated in almost every area of life. For instance, one aspect of social stress is when my friends and I were walking back home along the bridge when we saw a mysterious area that looked like a junk yard. The area was fenced off, except for the back side of it; it appear to be ripped open along the railroad tracks. Above all, my friends were tempted to go, and anyone that stayed behind was considered to be scared. We cut through to get to the railroad and intruded from the back, where it was deserted with what seemed to be useful junk such as; Car parts, huge pieces of metal, house doors, window frames, and abandoned cars. We searched through the rubble until the security guard came out, and confronted us with his pistol. We all held up our hands and stood there until the security guard let us go. With regards to this, many do not see peer pressure as stressful since the term “social stress” is not associated with it. Similarly, it is doing your boss a huge favor that you are trying to handle, or socially denied; when you are trying to be part of a group. You experience social stress when you worry about interacting with a certain person or group of people. These standards of stress relates to early teens, or one entering a new environment. In some cases, it give many people the thrill, while in other cases it pushes others over the
What is it like to live with stress; is it amusing, intermediate, or harmful? Everyday that we engage in life, we begin to adapt to the amount of stress that we face. Whether it’s enduring the hardest times under pressure, or just having fun at an amusement park; we face it, and we respond. Stress is our body’s response towards a certain situation, and those types of responses can be categorized as; good stress, social stress, and chronic stress.
Good Stress
This type of stress occurs widely to everyone, and we don’t even realize it. The fun moments that we do in life can be stressful, but not the type of stress that you are thinking about. Good stress for an example, is waiting for my turn in a suspenseful line; which …show more content…
In fact, sources of social stress are multiple and can be generated in almost every area of life. For instance, one aspect of social stress is when my friends and I were walking back home along the bridge when we saw a mysterious area that looked like a junk yard. The area was fenced off, except for the back side of it; it appear to be ripped open along the railroad tracks. Above all, my friends were tempted to go, and anyone that stayed behind was considered to be scared. We cut through to get to the railroad and intruded from the back, where it was deserted with what seemed to be useful junk such as; Car parts, huge pieces of metal, house doors, window frames, and abandoned cars. We searched through the rubble until the security guard came out, and confronted us with his pistol. We all held up our hands and stood there until the security guard let us go. With regards to this, many do not see peer pressure as stressful since the term “social stress” is not associated with it. Similarly, it is doing your boss a huge favor that you are trying to handle, or socially denied; when you are trying to be part of a group. You experience social stress when you worry about interacting with a certain person or group of people. These standards of stress relates to early teens, or one entering a new environment. In some cases, it give many people the thrill, while in other cases it pushes others over the