“Health is not merely the absence of disease but a state of complete physical‚ mental‚ spiritual and social well-being”. In the light of this definition‚ evaluate the state of your own health? Being in good health means more than just being free from illness or disease. While being physically healthy is the first step to good health‚ good mental health and social well-being are also necessary. In fact‚ health is defined by the World Health Organization as “a state of complete physical‚ mental
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Stress has many interpretations and carries a negative connotation for most people. Over the years‚ stress has been indentified in different ways. It was conceived of as pressure from the environment‚ then as strain within the person. Today‚ stress can be known as the interaction between the situation and the person. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the person are not sufficient to cope with the demands and the pressure of the situation. Stress can undermine
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is the nature of this problem? Stress is always a complex issue but will be even more complex if it is left unattended (Wan Hussin‚ 2007). According to Redhwan‚ et al (2009)‚ stress is defined as a condition of mental is under pressure which caused by individual and social problems as well as inner and outer self-factors. Besides‚ according to A.D.A.M. Health Solutions (2012)‚ there are two types of stress which are physical stress and emotional stress. So What? : What are the urgent
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Stress by Ashley Strawder I. What Is Stress? Stress is the combination of psychological‚ physiological‚ and behavioral reactions that people have in response to events that threaten or challenge them. Stress can be good or bad. Sometimes‚ stress is helpful‚ providing people with the extra energy or alertness they need. Stress could give a runner the edge he or she needs to persevere in a marathon‚ for example. This good kind of stress is called eustress. Unfortunately‚ stress is often not
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Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the ever-increasing demands of life. Surveys show that many Americans experience challenges with stress at some point during the year. In looking at the causes of stress‚ remember that your brain comes hard-wired with an alarm system for your protection. When your brain perceives a threat‚ it signals your body to release a burst of hormones to fuel your capacity for a response. This has been labeled the "fight-or-flight" response. Once
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The Impact of Stress on Academic Performance In today’s world stress is something that is unavoidable .It is something that is faced by adults ‚teenagers and kids around the world .Stress is often described as a feeling of being overloaded ‚ wound up tight ‚ tense and worried . Stress can sometimes help to motivate us to get a task finished or perform well . But stress can also be harmful if we become over-stressed and it interferes with our ability to get on our normal life for too long .(A
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In the present day‚ stress is widely recognized as a major problem for many employees in their daily life. According to Lawrence（2010）：The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have defined stress as the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them at work. This definition suggests that when people experience excessive stress‚ there is a high risk. And this phenomenon also contributes to some bad consequences‚ such as mental illness，heart and circulatory
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Stress Stress is a term used to describe the physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. But for me stress is a mental and emotional distraction condition‚ which is caused due to pressure in everyday life. Stress can have a positive or a negative effect on a person depending on how it is dealt with. For me‚ college is my number one stressor. The causes are academic‚ financial and personal. When it comes to trying to relieve
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Common type of stress that affecting college students There are many definition we could define from the word of stress itself‚ according to the Oxford Dictionaries Online (http://oxforddictionaries.com)‚ stress could define as “a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstance”. But stress could be best describe as‚ “a physical or psychological response due to an events or circumstances that make the person feel threatened or upset the balance of
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4/19/2010 Stress is the ‘wear and tear’ our bodies experience as we adjust to our continual changing environment; it has physical and emotional effects on us and it can create negative feelings. As a positive influence‚ stress can help compel us to action; result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence stress can result in feeling of distrust‚ rejection anger‚ and depression‚ which in turn can cause health problems such as headaches‚ upset stomach
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