Functional response

Section 1: What I know, What I want to Know Prior to my research, I knew that anxiety had to be more than just a side effect of thinking too much or it “all being in your head”. From personal experience, I knew that anxiety was something that was not easy to deal with, and that there had to be other people out there who have similar symptoms as I do. Also, I knew that anxiety triggers something in an individual’s brain that lead to self-defense because I had taken a health science class my…

Social Anxiety disorder it means that some people will end up taking more time than others to get comfortable having people around them. Learning more about this will help parents encourage children to gain some confidence and start to make more relationships with their family members and other people. Learning more about this disorder will inspire them to help other people that have some of the same struggles that they have, it will help to benefit other people to know that their friends and…

1. The Concept of Stress Coping Strategies Stress coping strategies are important factors in determining stress outcomes. When a person is facing extreme stressful situation, it is likely the person will evaluate the stressful situation as according to Lazarus and Folkman (1984). The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping Theory is a framework which emphasises appraisal to evaluate the potential solutions and complication of an event, which could affect the process of coping with a…

signs, tense muscles, and diaphoresis (excessive sweating). The person is tense and fearful. His or her attention is focused on one concern - which may able to concentrate with direction. During severe anxiety, a person manifests fight - or - flight response, dry mouth, and numb extremities, distressed emotion, and decreased sensory perception which can focus only on details and unable the person to learn new information. Lastly, when a person reaches the panic level - is very overwhelmed -…

I never expected to be here. If you asked me four years prior to where I am now, if I wanted to go to college and study nursing, the answer would’ve been no. From me being loud, obnoxious, disrespectful and disobedient to failing every class and having over 40 absences, I did not even think about college. On the brink of failing the ninth grade and having a disciplinary record longer than my school transcripts, I had my first anxiety attack. As I was gasping for air while thousands of…

grandmother convinced her to marry into success and one would fall in love after marriage. After trying this a few times, janie began to realize her view of marriage was completely different than her grandmother’s view on marriage and love. The reader's response lens allows the reader to make interpretations on any situation in the writing freely. A lot of this novel was based on love and relationships. I interpreted Janie’s views on relationships as the novel went on. She began to learn that…

conditions of stress, that gives you that extreme rush of energy that makes you feel like you can do almost anything. Most of the cases, when you get an adrenaline rush, are in fight or flight situations. The fight-or-flight response is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. The fight or flight method is created by two bodily reactions. The first reaction is the sympathetic nervous system. This reaction uses the nerve…

literature of any genre can be enjoyable and beneficial to everyone because individuals who read context of any sort can use what they read to relate it to society and to their own lives including their cultures, backgrounds, and personalities. Reader response criticism is a literacy theory that concentrates on the reader as well as his/her experience that can be relatable to the story they read. People can use general or specific details from a story such as the events, characters, themes, the…

The fight-or-flight response is the reaction when a person perceives a threat. This person has now has two physiological options, to stand up to that threat and fight, or to run away (Grohol). To understand what happens during fight or flight, one needs to understand what chemicals and hormones are used during the process. First, the nervous system is broken down into two major systems: Central and Peripheral. The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and deals with…

Stress is the body’s reaction to a change or to something that could make the body feel threatened. When someone is stressed, they get more adrenaline or hormones pumped into their body which cause all of the symptoms to occur. People who experience stress often get overwhelmed easily. This is also a large cause for depression or sadness. Knowing how to help if a person is going through chronic stress is important. It is something that affects everyone, and it is something that people need to…