Ap Psychology Research Paper

Stress tends to affect the brain in many ways, however, it is due to trauma at different stages in life that will presumably have different effects on the brain, for instance, it can lead to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. When my father was a child he saw an uncle of his killed by a Doberman Pincher, this caused him to become a victim of PTSD. The PTSD transformed the manner in which he reacts to Dobermans and all other types of dogs he comes in contact. As a child, my siblings and I were never allowed to have any sort of pet. It was as if it were a sin to come into contact with an animal. However, now that Abraham, who is the oldest of the boys in the family, married an animal fanatic they own; a horse, three miniature ponies, two dogs which
Slavich, who wrote an article about stress and health, tells us that in a discovery it has been found that “stress can upregulate components of the immune system involved in inflammation.” Through this discovery, the occurrences of people getting sick from stress is now more credible. There once was a time in high school that my teacher achieved the highest level of annoyance from other classmates and decided that it was enough. Fed up with the students, she decided to make life a living hell by giving homework that towered over the Himalayas! Being the student that I was, I tried to keep up with the work that she had given. However, stress and anxiety kicked in and I could not think about anything, feeling brain dead and later becoming terribly sick I had to take a break. However, “not everyone who experiences stress gets sick” (Slavich). Researchers went to work once again trying to find other reasons on to why people got sick coming upon the discovery that “stressors involving social evaluation and rejection, which can induce experiences of “social pain,” activate some of the same brain regions that are engaged by physical pain“ (Slavich). As a high schooler, I always wondered why my brother Abraham was an oddball because he managed to never get sick through all his stresses of high school and college. Slavich’s research went on to make the conclusion that “one emerging idea is that individuals who are more neurally sensitive to social stressors may mount greater inflammatory responses to social stress.” This conclusion cleared many ideas onto why my brother did not get sick. He was the golden child of the family, meanwhile, my siblings and I tried to live up to his deeds to please our