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What is Stress? Stress is defined as a response to a demand that is placed upon you. Stress in a normal reaction when your brain recognizes a threat. When the threat is perceived, your body releases hormones that activate your “fight or flight” response. This fight or flight response is not limited to perceiving a threat, but in less severe cases, is triggered when we encounter unexpected events. Psychologist Richard S. Lazarus best described stress as “a condition or feeling that a person experiences when they perceive that the demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.” For most people, stress is a negative experience.
How does it affect you? Stress may cause you to have physiological, behavioral or even psychological effects. Physiological – hormone release triggers your fight or flight response. These hormones help you to either fight harder or run faster. They increase heart rate, blood pressure, and sweating. Stress has been tied to heart disease. Because of the increase in heart rate and blood pressure, prolonged stress increases the tension that is put on the arteries. It also affects your immune system which is why cold and flu illness usually show up during exams. Behavioral – it may cause you to be jumpy, excitable, or even irritable. The effects of stress may cause some people to drink or smoke heavily, neglect exercise or proper nutrition, or overuse either the television or the computer. Psychological – the response to stress may decrease your ability to work or interact effectively with other people, and be less able to make good decisions. Stress has also been known to play a part in anxiety and depression.
What causes Stress? Stressors are anything that cause or increase stress. Below are a few examples:
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California
Kennedy Library 112 ~ 805- 756 - 1256 http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
Method for identifying the causes of stress
Starting a stress journal may help you identify what your stressors are. Keeping a daily log of what caused your stress, how you felt (physically and emotionally), how you reacted and how you managed to get over it/make the situation better, may help you.
This diagram can help you with your stress journal.
Stress Management Strategies
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California
Kennedy Library 112 ~ 805- 756 - 1256 http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html
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