Stress Experience Essay

A.) The most stressful event I had my freshman year of college was getting back into the routine of school. Right out of high school I left to serve in the Marine Corps, which placed me behide most peers in my age range. Getting back into the school routine meant having to overcome my social awkwardness, shyness and learning how be a student. With already being diagnosed with anxiety, panic attacks, depression and hard to adapt to new surrounding it made me feel overwhelmed with all the change I was about to endure. With having the stress from going to school I was worried because it is my only income and I am labeled as “not at school person.” Education has also been one of my big stressors my whole life. Applying for school I had to take

I was constantly on edge; I went into beep depression, multiple panic attacks (no hospitalization), drastic weight loss, loss of appetite, stomach pains and insomnia. My body felt it was having a “nervous breakdown.” All these symptoms really made it hard for me to carry out my daily routine, such as playing with my son or go out for entertainment. At the end of the day my body would be so achy and tired that I would feel my muscles twitching, my eye libs would be so heavy but my mind wouldn’t allow me

First daycare, get to class early, find my seat, writing everything the teacher says down, don’t be the first one out, go to my next class, go get my son and head home. In the morning I had to take my toddler to daycare, which really helped take my mind off the thousand of questions I didn’t know the answer to. Since the daycare was connected to the school it took my “separation anxiety” away being this was the first time I was away from my baby. After dropping him off I would go straight to class. I try to attend class before most of my classmates, so I didn’t have people staring at me as I walk in. The first time I enter into a class, I try to make the seat I sit in the first day “my seat the whole semester.” In order to keep my mind from wondering I would try to write down majority of the teachers lecture. When my class ends I make my schedules with ten minutes between classes, so it gives me just enough time to get there to get “my seat.” Once I have hit my last class I would feel so exhausted from being so anxious in all my classes. Worrying about if the teacher was going to call on me, is someone going to say something about my accent or if anyone in class was talking about me. My freshman I started with Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes. After taking that schedule for one semester I felt over exhausted and switched to Tuesday