How to make stress your friend
Discussion Post Reaction:
Think about a stressful situation that you experienced and that you do not mind sharing with the class.
Please identify the type of stressor in this situation?
Please discuss how stress affected you biologically, cognitively, and emotionally.
Do you think your friends or family members in your situation would have experienced the same level of stress as you? Do you consider this situation as chronic stress, a daily hassle, or a major life event?
After watching the video, and using the experience you shared in question 1 as an example, how do you think a change in the perception of stress would have impacted your response and bodily experience of stress?
Can you describe caring created resilience and why it is important to the stress process?
Sample Solution
Any intrinsic or extrinsic stimulus that evokes a biological response is known as stress. The compensatory responses to these stresses are known as stress responses. Based on the type, timing and severity of the applied stimulus, stress can exert various actions on the body ranging from alterations in homeostasis to life-threatening effects and death. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can help you manage them. Stress that is left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Atrophy of brain regions, resulting from repeated exposure to stressful conditions, has a cognitive cost. Indeed, working memory, attention, response inhibition and cognitive flexibility have all been found to be impaired by stress (Girotti et al., 2017).
