Janet's Stress Case Study

Janet, who is a university student, takes part in some societies, part-time job, and new interests at the same time but she fails some foundation courses and need to re-take those of them. She is afraid that her daughter image will be destroyed when her parents know her terrible academic result, consequently, she cannot shear her situation with her parents. The pressure and stressors cause lots of problem for her mental and physical health.

The sources of Janet’s stress are her time management, school pressure and family expectation.

The first stressor of Janet’s life is her full schedule. Janet joins many societies and has some new interests and she also has some part-time jobs at the same time. She needs to handle those activities and also her academics study at the same time. She feels overwhelmed since her activities and jobs occupy most of her time and she does not have adequate time to handle and finish all the things.

The second stressor of her life is her horrible …show more content…
With reference to an article states that general adaptation syndrome describes the short-term and long-term body reaction for stress. General adaptation syndrome includes three stage and they are alarm stage, stage of resistance and stage of exhaustion. Alarm stage is the immediate reaction of body when facing the stressor. Janet feels burn out, exhausted and overwhelmed due to the alarm stage. Stage of resistance is the body to adapt to the stressor in order to reduce the negative effect of stressor. Janet’s body wants to adapt the stressor, nevertheless, the body cannot resist the stress due to the excess stress. At stage of exhaustion, the ability of body to resist disease can be decreased due to the excess stressors. The reason that Janet eats less, swear more, and feels exhausted even after sleeping much more than usual is the stage of