world almost everyone deals with stress. The media presents us with tragedies and disasters from around the world. The world of terrorism is brought to our lounge rooms. Financial pressures brought about through rising interest rates and drought‚ climate change and the competitiveness of careers and employment all add to the pressures of living in today’s world and stress levels. Beth McHugh in her article Anxiety: The New Plague of the Millennium states: “Stress and anxiety have overtaken the
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Title: The effect of stress in each individual (on human the body) "When you get the right amount of stress‚ we call it stimulation‚ the goal in life is not to get rid of stress but the goal in life is to get the right type of stress‚ because when it’s the right type we love it!"(Bredar‚ 2008). It is widely agreed that the human machine is the most complicated machine to explain. We know very little about its process‚ and in this modern era no one seems to truly understand how our body system
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Definition of Terms. 2.1.1. Symptoms and Consequences of Stress: The physiological changes that take place within the body in response to stress are responsible for most stress symptoms. The battle against the stressor is referred to as the fight-or-flight response. Recent studies suggest that females tend-and befriend in response to a stressor. They protect and nurture (tend) and turn to social networks for support (befriend). Also‚ the brain senses stress as damage to well-being and therefore sends out
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The first type of stress is under pressure. Under pressure is early stress that people have may include a stress headache‚ backache‚ neck or shoulder stiffness. These are common and often caused by muscle tension and tightness. People have under pressure sometime unconscious habit of teeth grinding while sleeping. Financial problem is common causes of stress such as credit card debt‚ not making rent and inability to provide for a family. Social issue involve environment of surrounding. According
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Stress‚ as defined by Oxford English Dictionary‚ is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. Everyone will encounter some sort of stress throughout their day to day lives. This is normal a perfectly healthy. Once stress becomes ongoing people begin to develop Chronic Stress. Chronic stress can lead to many health problems and while it still affects the body the same a regular stress it becomes dangerous due of long-term exposure. The
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The word stress is a collective term and is used widely across many professions yet it is not clearly defined and has no limitations. Stress is the new norm‚ be you a person‚ pet‚ practitioner‚ old or young‚ stress dominates life and appears in magazines‚ on television and in newspapers that promise guaranteed cures. My understanding of stress is that it is negative and can be categorised into two major groups; physical stress and mental stress. Within these categories the word stress is used as
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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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Stress and Burnout Mary Johnson OMM 618 Human Resource Management MFG 1326 A Felicia Bridgewater 7/29/13 Stress and burnout go hand in hand and it’s easy to end up in this situation when you continuously work more overtime hours than the average employee at your place of employment. Most of these employees are working both second and third shifts back to back at least five to six times a week. This is becoming a widespread trend in the workplace and
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1. Stress Theory Cognitive-relational theory defines stress as a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being (Lazarus & Folkman‚ 1984b‚ p. 19). Appraisals are determined simultaneously by perceiving environmental demands and personal resources. They can change over time due to coping effectiveness‚ altered requirements‚ or improvements in personal abilities. The
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“A little bit of stress is useful - it keeps people in their toes.” Discuss. In order to answer this question one must first define the various elements in the question. Stress can be defined as ‘The harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities‚ resources or needs of the worker’ . One can define useful‚ as stress making a person happy‚ productive and efficient. Also in terms of an organisation making it successful‚ efficient
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