Ways to Avoid Stress

How do you stop stress? Many people always complain about being stressed, when you ask them why their stress they give you different answers from school to work to problems with family or friends. Stress is scientifically defined as the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, that we appraise as threatening or challenging (Psychology eight edition 550). This means anything that is happening in a person’s life can lead to stress if it’s not handled correctly and becomes a problem. Even though many people know their stressed they don’t know how to deal with it, this leads to many problems for people. Stress is caused by many things that occur daily in each person’s life, one major cause of stress is fear. Each fear message produces an associated stress response. Even though we may not feel the effects of a stress response reaction, one still occurs. Meaning the body always produces an associated stress response to each fear and one that is directly proportional to the level of fear (anxiety Centre, stress fear). Another major cause of stress in most people’s lives is their work or school. Many students now face a lot of stress in schools because of the high level of competition to get into college etc. Some stress can be good, for example it can motivate them to try harder to get good grades while too much of it can majorly hurt students. Many students feel a certain level of pressure due to the expectations of their teachers and family. They want to please everyone, and do their best so as not to let anyone down (examrare why do students have exam stress).This sort of pressure students feel can lead them to often overthink things and cause unnecessary stress. Another group of people that feels stress daily are people that work in a very competitive working environment. Just like students at school adults that work also can feel a lot of stress from their jobs. This amount of stress especially increases if they don’t feel like their job is