Post traumatic stress disorder‚ known as PTSD‚ is an anxiety disorder that affects one’s mental health. Its victims experience symptoms following the witnessing of events that cause severe psychological distress. Such events are mostly those of war‚ violence‚ abuse‚ or serious accidents. Lasting from a few months to many years‚ post traumatic stress disorder causes very intense‚ emotional or physical pain. Although many health professionals used to question whether or not PTSD is a legitimate disorder
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Definitions of stress: The most commonly accepted definition of stress (mainly attributed to Richard S Lazarus) is that stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that “demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.” In short‚ it’s what we feel when we think we’ve lost control of events. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_00.htm The UK Healthy and Safety Executive defines stress in the following way: "the adverse
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Stress can be a positive thing - helping an individual to grow‚ develop‚ be stimulated and take action. However‚ if stress exceeds a person’s ability to cope it can impact on their mental and physical health in a range of ways. Some research studies estimate up to two thirds of illnesses seen by GP’s are stress related. In the days of the caveman‚ stress often came in the form of physical threats that required individuals to react quickly and decisively. The body helped out by automatically
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Stress In Athletics In the Journal article by Mark H. Anshel‚ entitled Qualitative Validation of a Model For Coping With Acute Stress In Sports. Explains how stress affects athletes‚ and how they can go about to deal with the problem‚ or cope with the problem. The author breaks this down into four categories. First‚ they want to perceive a stimulus or experiencing an event‚ secondly‚ appraising that event as stressful‚ thirdly‚ using either approach or avoidance coping strategies each consisting
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individual outcome next time. How does this make you feel with regard to making suggestions‚ proposing new ideas or attempting to develop new products‚ services or markets? Seeing as the attitude towards mistakes is a positive one‚ it makes me feel as though I can voice my opinions and not have to worry too much about failure. Everyone can have a go at trying to better our organisation by suggesting and proposing new ideas without too much pressure from within the organisation. How do you think mistakes
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INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Work Related stress is a major cause of employee’s low productivity in an organisation. Encarta dictionary defines stress as strain felt by somebody mentally‚ physically‚ emotionally which may cause symptoms as raised blood pressure and depression. It is important to recognise and address properly job-related stress because it badly affects the employee’s mental and physiological health. As there is so many resources for employees to perform excellent in their jobs
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for only him. but for many more students.The term ’exam stress’ can be broadly defined as a feeling of anxiety over one’s performance in the exams‚ the results and reaction of parents and friends; all weigh upon students to create exam stress. parents can’t understand plight of the students during exams they have to study a lot‚ and instead of supporting them they stress on them for whatever they have still done. Have you ever seen a stress-free college student? I haven’t‚ unless you count the
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Introduction Stress is the most common concerns which may affects student life. Medical dictionary(2007) defined Stress as in humans is a domino effect from interactions between persons and their environment that are alleged as exceeding their adaptive capacities and affecting their life. Many researches and literature have been discussed the stress among part time student. Also many studies have showed those part time students are affected by several problems or life events which may impact on their
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overcoming stress! As is known to all‚ not all people are satisfied with their present career‚ in other words‚ they are feel persure. Nobody wants to be haunted by it. So people should sometime do something that overcome stresses. As far as I am concern‚ I think learning how to overcome stresses is of more value for things are always necessities of our lives. First of all‚ it goes beyond doubt that doing excise is a way to overcome stresses. As is known to all‚when you do excise‚ you will
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Stress is a term used by many‚ is somewhat misunderstood‚ and often used to describe a negative condition or emotional state. People experience various forms of stress at home‚ work‚ in social settings‚ and when engaged in activities to simply have fun. Police officer’s experience stresses the same as others‚ but also in ways much different than the average citizen. The dangers‚ violence‚ and tragedy seen by officers result in added levels of stress not experienced by the general population
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