Stress

Stress is a physical and psychological response to a situation that seems overwhelming. Some stress is good as it can motivate and help us become more productive. However, too much stress or prolonged exposure to stress is harmful. The way we perceive a stress-provoking event and react to it determines its impact on our health. Over time, high levels of stress can lead to serious health problems. This is why stress management strategies are very important in eliminating the negative impacts…

Introduction Most everyone experiences stress at least one point in their lives or another. In fact, in a national study done by the NPR (National Public Radio) found that out of the two thousand five hundred people who participated, more than one in four said that they felt a great deal of stress in the past month, and half of the people surveyed reported having a very stressing time in the past year alone (Hensley & Hurt, 2014). With stress being a universal problem that everyone deals with…

millions of people suffer from stress everyday. Stress is a natural part of life. The expressions are familiar to us, “I’m stressed out,” “I’m under too much stress,” or “Work is one big stress.” Stress is hard to define because it means different things to different people; however, it’s clear that most stress is a negative feeling rather than a positive feeling. While some people believe stress can be healthy, it can be argued that excessive stress is unbearable because stress can lead to…

Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances (Webster). Located at the center of the nervous system is one of the body’s most important organs, the brain. The brain is an extraordinary part of your body as is it processes every thought you have, and every word you say, by sending signals through your nervous system. There are many disorders that can inhibit the brain from functioning normally, however the one thing that can be…

(SS: 9) Worry, strain, and difficulty – these are all reactions a person can have when having to deal with stress. In life, a persons can have emotional stress from school, physical stress from sports, and then mental stress from work. Stress from all these places can wear a person down to a point where they just need to rest. That’s one of the problems with the world we live in, there is never any time to slow down and rest. (BE: 2) Bogged down and dishearten, I feel after a week of school. I…

Central to the stress process model is the claim that social patterns of health and illness are shaped by the interplay of stressors and resources. Theorists and researchers have developed several basic conceptual models of this interplay between stressors and resources that have been used in many of the empirical studies. The areas of stress are a deep and complicated topic that requires a lot of attention and knowledge to be able grasp. Stress is important because it can have lingering effects…

Stress can affect the officer’s workplace performance as well as their personal life. Stress that has an affect on an officer’s workplace performance can lead to bigger problems. If an officer is not performing well it can lead to the officer making a mistake while on the job. This can lead to lawsuits against that officer, and the department (Kurtz, 2012). Officer stress can sometimes turn into posttraumatic stress disorder. Posttraumatic stress disorder is brought on after someone has…

I. Biological Effects of Stress Workplace stress do not only affect the mind of an individual; long term stressors implicitly can lead to physical damage, and biological consequences. According to American Psychological Association, some common symptoms of overwhelming amount of stress includes muscular problems, including tension headache, back pain, jaw pain, gut and bowel problems such as heartburn, acid stomach, flatulence, diarrhea, elevation in blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms…

Everyone has stress in some form or another, and some people have more stress than others. Stress is how a person perceives and deals with issues and tasks in their lives (Myers, 2015). Everyone deals with stress in different ways and some cope better than others. Psychologists like to study stress because of the wide dynamic of effects it has on people physically and emotionally. Stress is connected to many aspects of life which results in a lot of data to research (Myers, 2015). Stress…

daily life, in 2016 it is almost impossible to avoid some form of stress. There seems to always be a deadline or a soccer game that requires time to accomplish. These events that occur in our life are called stressors. In the video The Stress Epidemic, they use a barking dog as an example of a stressor. If the stressor is not taking care of the end result is stress. If I had a hypothetical meeting with a client who is under stress how would I approach the situation? The first thing I would do…