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In other words, Eustress is the type of stress that motivates people to make some changes in order to get a desirable result. In the other hand, Distress is a kind of “bad” stress that may lead in health and psychological problems. Many external experiences and events can cause stress; catastrophes, life changes, strains, and every day hassles are the major causes of stress for a person.
Catastrophes or Catastrophic events are experiences, traumas, or evens that creates huge amounts of stress to persons, it can be unexpected, unpredictable, and it can even be life threatening. A good example of a catastrophic experience is the terrorist attack in the World Trade Center; it created a feeling of threat, and stress in a large scale among Americans. A trauma could be a physical or sexual assault, which causes stress and feelings of insecurity for a long period of …show more content…
Major Life Changes, are changes that most of the persons have to deal with throughout their lives, going to college, moving from one place to other, and marriage are examples. Holmes and Rahe created a theory in which they exposed that any life event that makes a person create changes in their lifestyles would lead to stress; then, they created a list of items that are known to cause stress, this list is called Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS); in this list, the most important and causing stress events were, death of spouse, divorce, and marital separation, having the tree a common similarity, all were related with major emotional changes, that result in changes of the individual life. All this stress accumulated creates long-term effect in a person, which might cause …show more content…
Under stress people associate a physical state with emotions, these can be for example anger, sadness, fear, etc; after the stressor is gone most of the emotion will disappear, if the stressor persist people can fall in a state of depression and anxiety. Cognitive stress responses are caused by certain levels of stress; it lowers the ability of a person’s concentration, this interferes with the actions and decisions taken by the individual in a high stress moment. “Overarousal created by stressors also tends to narrow the scope of attention, making it harder to scan the full range of possible solutions to complex problems” (Bernstein and
Catastrophes or Catastrophic events are experiences, traumas, or evens that creates huge amounts of stress to persons, it can be unexpected, unpredictable, and it can even be life threatening. A good example of a catastrophic experience is the terrorist attack in the World Trade Center; it created a feeling of threat, and stress in a large scale among Americans. A trauma could be a physical or sexual assault, which causes stress and feelings of insecurity for a long period of …show more content…
Major Life Changes, are changes that most of the persons have to deal with throughout their lives, going to college, moving from one place to other, and marriage are examples. Holmes and Rahe created a theory in which they exposed that any life event that makes a person create changes in their lifestyles would lead to stress; then, they created a list of items that are known to cause stress, this list is called Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS); in this list, the most important and causing stress events were, death of spouse, divorce, and marital separation, having the tree a common similarity, all were related with major emotional changes, that result in changes of the individual life. All this stress accumulated creates long-term effect in a person, which might cause …show more content…
Under stress people associate a physical state with emotions, these can be for example anger, sadness, fear, etc; after the stressor is gone most of the emotion will disappear, if the stressor persist people can fall in a state of depression and anxiety. Cognitive stress responses are caused by certain levels of stress; it lowers the ability of a person’s concentration, this interferes with the actions and decisions taken by the individual in a high stress moment. “Overarousal created by stressors also tends to narrow the scope of attention, making it harder to scan the full range of possible solutions to complex problems” (Bernstein and