STRESS
By Justina Hu 3ºB
Nowadays,
our lifes are full of stress, stress in school, stress at work, and stress with
relationships. We talk a lot about the word “stress” but, do we know exactly
what it is?
Stress is just a normal physical response to
an effector, or many of them, and makes you feel threatened, or upset in some
way. For example, I feel stress when I
have got a lot of exams and projects during a short period of time and I have
to do it all, and do it well. On the one hand, stress can be good for our lives,
for example, it can make you run faster in case you see a lion, but, on the
other hand, it can affect your mood and health in a bad way.
An interesting way of comparing those effects
of stress with our daily life is Psychologist
Connie Lillas’ way, she compare it with how you drive. For example, foot on the
gas, means that you are very agitated, and you can’t stand there without
moving; foot on the brake, means that you don’t show any emotions, and you
don’t move, just like the opposite of the “foot on the brake”; and the third
one: foot on both, it shows that you look very relaxed, but actually you are
very agitated and stressed.
There are
lots of effects of stress: Physically, you have less memory, so you won’t
remember lots of thing that happened just before. Also, you have frequent colds, and you have more
habits, like for example, you bite your nails (a common habit when people are
stressed); Mental, you feel depressed, that everything is going to be bad, you
think of the negative aspects of the things; etc.
With the information
given above, I think that stress is essential in our lives, in both aspects:
positive and negative. So, after reading all this, do you think you are as affected
by stress as you thought before?
References
Helpguide.org
Stress Symptoms, Signs & Causes: Effects of Stress
Overload
In-text: (Helpguide.org, 2013)
Bibliography: Helpguide.org (2013) Stress Symptoms, Signs &
Causes: Effects of Stress Overload. [online] Available at:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_signs.htm [Accessed: 29 May 2013].
