Stress Management: Stress in our Daily Life

Stress should be eliminated from daily life Modern life brings both advantages and disadvantages for human. It makes our life become more convenient and comfortable but there are many disadvantages such as overpopulation, pollution, social evils and diseases. We generally use the word stress when we feel that everything seems to have become too much, we are overloaded and wonder whether we really can cope with the pressures placed upon us. Nowadays, stress is a popular phenomenon, and the effects of it on human’s life are serious. Therefore, stress should be eliminated from daily life because it can effect to our health, our work and our relationship. First, stress is a fearful pathology that can influence to our health. One considerable effect of stress is that it can make human’s health get worse. This is physical effect of stress. Stress can cause some symptoms of asthma and chronic obstructive diseases (Luise.C, 2012). Stress causes our immune system to become weakening. A simple cold can become the flu or a lung infection with a stress person. In addition, stress can cause sleep problems and tiredness, which can go on to produce mood swings and hot temper. Stress also has a big effect on how our internal organs work. For example, the heart beats faster and the blood pressure increases during a stressful period. 77% of the American have these physical symtoms (APA study, 2007). Psychological or emotional effects of stress also have an effect on us in bad ways. We lose interest in our daily activities because of stress. We are not able to focus on one thing. Other psychological effect of stress is losing power of discrimination. Our mind stops working correctly and we are not able to decide what is good and what is bad. 73% of the American experienced these psychological symptoms and about haft of American (48%) feel that their stress has increased over the past five years (APA study, 2007). Another damage of stress is the decreasing our

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