english comp 2
Thesis:
Stress has become all too common in our everyday lives and in our workplace with increase of stress on our students and our society as a whole causing severe health risks.
In the article from USA Today the main focus is on the negative affect of stress on young teens. With school causing a staggering amount of stress in these young adult lives they are already being set up for failure. Failure in the sense of not having a healthy way of dealing with or handling the new stress load. These unhealthy habits start at a young age and carry on into adulthood where more stress is added and bad habits reach their peak. With the accredited physiatrists participating in these stress studies given as examples in the article, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence showing the effect of stress. Another effect on the teens due to stress is depression. This is one of the unhealthiest ways of dealing with stress because it is yet another mental illness that may be hard to see with the naked eye but causes so much more damage than we know. When stress effects students it does not just mean grade school through high school, no it continues on. College students and equal are being affected by stress causing an array of problems that are effecting the feeling empathy and mental health. Freshmen have stated that they are feeling that their mental health is not up to par with the work load that they are about to endure or have already taken on. In just one year eighteen percent of freshmen do not feel mentally healthy. Being of good mental health will help deal with stress and we are showing a significant downfall of being in the right mind to deal with stress. Empathy is essential to building relationships with others in our daily lives and keeping the ones we have built alive and strong. With stress already on the shoulders of our scholars we are now adding another burden of loneliness to the weight that they are carrying. There is a deadly mixture brewing and adding
Stress has become all too common in our everyday lives and in our workplace with increase of stress on our students and our society as a whole causing severe health risks.
In the article from USA Today the main focus is on the negative affect of stress on young teens. With school causing a staggering amount of stress in these young adult lives they are already being set up for failure. Failure in the sense of not having a healthy way of dealing with or handling the new stress load. These unhealthy habits start at a young age and carry on into adulthood where more stress is added and bad habits reach their peak. With the accredited physiatrists participating in these stress studies given as examples in the article, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence showing the effect of stress. Another effect on the teens due to stress is depression. This is one of the unhealthiest ways of dealing with stress because it is yet another mental illness that may be hard to see with the naked eye but causes so much more damage than we know. When stress effects students it does not just mean grade school through high school, no it continues on. College students and equal are being affected by stress causing an array of problems that are effecting the feeling empathy and mental health. Freshmen have stated that they are feeling that their mental health is not up to par with the work load that they are about to endure or have already taken on. In just one year eighteen percent of freshmen do not feel mentally healthy. Being of good mental health will help deal with stress and we are showing a significant downfall of being in the right mind to deal with stress. Empathy is essential to building relationships with others in our daily lives and keeping the ones we have built alive and strong. With stress already on the shoulders of our scholars we are now adding another burden of loneliness to the weight that they are carrying. There is a deadly mixture brewing and adding
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