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Stress And Portrait Of A Killer Essay

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After watching the video, Stress, Portrait of a Killer, I was surprised with a couple of the comments that were made. The first was made by the commentator and he states “stress is not a state of mind but something measurable and dangerous”. I have always known that stressors can be relevant in the health of people but the extreme that stress can take is what amazes me the most. Whether you get sick or not or if you live a healthy lifestyle can depend on the amount of the stressors in your life. I had not realized the depth stressors can affect our health until I heard Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky say, “Chronic stress can do something as unsubtle and grotesque as kill some of your brain cells”. This is a shocking statement to me. What makes it most shocking is the amount of damage stressors can cause. Psychologists today know so much more than those that had originally studied humans and the effects of stress. Today’s advancements in diagnoses and treatments are far more profound now than in the past.
Stress, as defined, is “The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.” (Soomo, 2015) Most people will have encountered some sort of a stressor in their lives, this can be as easy as trying to turn on your TV set …show more content…

Because of the amount of that stress that I was under during that time, today I do not have a very good recollection of events that had happened. I have blocked out so much of that period that I cannot remember very much that has happened in those few years. It is like my brain shut down, I was so overloaded that my body was shutting itself down. I feel it was a trigger from my brain trying to conserve the energy that my body needed in order to be able to continue handling the stressful events of the day and those to

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