Fight-or-flight response

Nearly 10 percent of all teenagers in America suffer from an anxiety disorder. According to The National Institute of Mental Health, only 18 percent of those teenagers are actually medically treated for their conditions. Young people who have an anxiety disorder are set at a 25 percent higher risk for substance and alcohol abuse than teenagers who do not have such disorders (Duckworth 1). A healthy amount of stress and anxiety help humans detect threats and guide to prepare for everyday…

stress triggers our fight or flight response and far too often we choose to flee. We employ coping mechanisms such as denial to help ease the anxiety associated with climate change. We are being selfish by putting our own comfort above all else. To not have to think about the atrocious things we have done to the ecosystem we deny climate change entirely. What people don’t realize though is that living in denial is only more harmful to the environment. We need to stand up, fight, and make a…

fear is a rational response to a situation that possibly poses a threat to our safety. It is normal to experience fear in a dangerous situation. Sometimes these fears can be very serious and interfere with day to day life and create anxiety. This is called a phobia. Phobias are said to affect 11% of the Australian population. Fears vs. Phobias Fear is a natural response that humans, and in fact most animals, have. Its purpose is to activate our ‘fight or flight’ response system in case of…

reacts a certain way when an event known as a stressor threatens the body’s wellbeing. The first stage is identified as ‘alarm’ as once a stressor is encountered the sympathetic nervous system is activated leading the body to react with the fight or flight response and hormones, cortisol and adrenalin are released to meet the threat or danger. If the stress continues to build the individual goes into stage two which is ‘resistance’. This is where the parasympathetic nervous system returns some…

are especially surprised with how good Moon Shadow’s English is when he is talking about airplanes. They give him books about planes and the Wright brothers. He writes to the Wright brothers to the beach. In July Moon Shadow and Windrider get a response from Mother and Grandmother about their move to the demon area. They are worried and told them to be careful. Rubin and Moon Shadow begin to bond more and more. Moon Shadow gets bullied by Jack again and they have a…

This was evident within Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, throughout history, and in society today. As a result, discrimination can cause undesirable stress responses that lead to negative health effects, both physical and mental. Within To Kill a Mockingbird, there were oodles of instances of discrimination from all different types of characters. Next, in history, especially black history, the major discrimination…

Social Concerns of Incoming High School Families. As students transition to high school, they often experience increased independence from their parents and families (Neild, 2009). Social concerns include “peer conformity” which “peak[s] at ninth grade” (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006, p. 16). Ninth graders exhibit an elevated sense of self and need for peer acceptance, along with physical and hormonal changes(Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006). The larger school environment may have many students feeling…

The main divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System are the autonomic nervous system — that controls the automated functions of the body: the heart, smooth muscle (organs) and glands. It’s divided into the “fight-or-flight” system and also the “resting and digesting" system. The somatic nervous system — that permits us to consciously or voluntarily control our skeletal muscles. The somatic nervous system contains 12 cranial nerves and 31 spinal nerves. Nerves…

Mrs. Hester’s presentation on mindfulness to me was a very intelligent well thought out presentation, because she knew what she was doing and obviously had practice with it before she presented her techniques and skills to us. This presentation was very calming and to me calm is bad. I hate being calm and the idea of being still literally kills my anxiety. I enjoyed the presentation altogether because she had a certain energy that seemed like it was radiating from her. Mrs. Hester was very…

what benefits it could bring to a person. My interest in mindfulness grew when we discussed the results of various scientific studies and the benefits mindfulness brings such as changing the structure of the brain, reduce anxiety, and stop fight or flight response in stressful situations. During our first mindfulness session in class, it was difficult for me to concentrate as my mind kept switching from thought to thought and I could not make it stop. I thought I was the only one who was not…