The Effects Of Stress

Stress, an integral part of life, is unavoidable and plays a key role in influencing happiness, productivity and health. Although stress is usually associated with a negative connotation, it is not always necessarily harmful. We generally use the word “stress,” to describe an emotional state or negative condition when we seem to be overloaded with pressure. The majority of people today have experienced stress at some point of their lives. Today, one can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine, and watch TV without seeing or hearing some reference to stress. Why is there all this sudden fuss and fascination? Is it because there are higher stress levels today? Or is it because our society’s sense of self and emotional well being influences us to report higher stress levels? This essay will examine the different medical, psychological, and biological perspectives on stress in order to better understand how much stress is too much, how stress comes about in life, and ways to manage it.

What is stress? The denotation of stress is the body 's response to any demand. Stress is a natural response activated in the brain, (WebMD). As a college student, I experience stress often whether it be due to academic, athletic or social expectations. The stress anyone, including myself, experiences are a normal part of life. There are

The second is behavioral and the third is physiological which affects the way we act and perform at specific tasks. Some psychologists believe that “some stress is better for higher quality than low or high stress levels due to the fact that lower stress levels cause a lack of stimulation to do anything. While higher stress levels tend to produce more frantic behavior, more so even if the task at hand is complex,” (A Psycho-educational Perspective). As a result, stress can be both positive or negative, it all depends on someone’s reaction and their ability to cope with