Personal Essay: The Effects Of Stress On The Human Body

I Courtney Lopez, am currently living under the impression that stress is healthy and it is an okay thing to stress about situations that do not need to be stressed about. There are people in this world that live life day by day and have no cares in the world and then there is me. I constantly live in this state of stress where anything and everything I do is done with stress.
It affects my health in a number of ways and can potentially harm me if it is dangerous enough. Stress is known to cause a number of health risks including heart disease, asthma, obesity, depression, anxiety, and a number of others. Stress can cause a person to experience a quantity of problems that can be carried out for a long period of time during their lives. Within stages this affects the people around me causing them to be drawn from my behavior. My parents begin to worry if I am going to be alright and stress that maybe I am doing too much so they offer their advice to improve my health and in turn stresses me out even more. Stress affects the relationship between me and my boyfriend of five years because he is worrisome that I stress about things that do not have a reason to be stressed about and overlooks me due to me being negative and depressed from stressing so much.
I am finally coming to terms that this is something that I need to get help with or begin to do something about it because it will …show more content…
I will discuss daily how my journey of becoming stress free is going and hopefully will be finding some sort of results in my short term goals. I will do my absolute best to try and stay on track and finish these goals, so I can finally reach my end goal of learning to live without stress. I am going to make the best of my experience by letting go of things that need to be let go of and find new techniques of how to live my life in a happier and healthier