The author, Lucy Dwyer, uses data from many professional sources, such as Dr. Sharon Sevier, chair of the board of The American School COunselor Association and counselor at Lafayette High School in St. Louis, and Jason Bradley, counselor at Roseville High School in Northern California, to test their hypothesis that stress and anxiety levels are rising in teenagers. Sevier highlights college’s rising selectivity as a cause of anxiety in teens, along with the rising level of competition that comes with that selectivity. This hypothesis is strongly supported by counselors and nurses across the nation, such as Amber Lutz, counselor at Kirkwood University in St. Louis, and Cindy Zellefrow, a nurse at South-Western City Schools in Grove City, Ohio.
Often times, it is just a term that is passed around, anxiety. When someone says cut down your anxiety do you actually know how? Well according to (WebMD) to prevent developing an anxiety disorder or just controlling anxiety you can do this in many simple ways. Start with living a healthy life. Take care of your body, eat a well-balanced diet and take a multivitamin on the daily. Limit or take out all consumption of alcohol, caffeine, and sugar. Spend 20 minutes a day on yourself, spend this time just relaxing or doing something you enjoy. Cut down your crazy schedule. Only complete tasks that are absolutely necessary. Plan day to day, don’t stress yourself out looking into the future. Don’t make life any harder than it needs to be. Keep track of your anxiety; keep a journal recording when it occurs and what makes it happen in your life. Interrupt hyperventilation from an anxiety attack you might be feeling. Breathe in and out slowly, into a paper bag if necessary. By grasping hold onto your life and doing these preventative steps it could lessen your chances of getting an anxiety disorder.
In response, i agree with Shannon L. A’s quote “The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.” In most of the mental illnesses covered the defining factor that contributes to it is when someone is too focussed on the pat and or future. In ‘Stress and anxiety Disorders’ major life changes can cause or contribute to the evolution of that individual's mental illness. When an unpleasant past experience is constantly causing a feeling of panic, problems sleeping, nausea, dry mouth, numbness/ tingling, not being able to stay calm, etc… then it can be referred to having a form of an anxiety disorder. Also spending too much time focusing on the future
Hi Roslyn, your discussion was straightforward and highlighted many excellent points. Interestingly, Harvey, Talbot & Gershon (2009) stated that sleep problems is a core symptom of bipolar disorder. Do you believe it can be explained why there appears to be a relationship between mental disorders and sleep disturbance? To add to the possible treatments you listed, yoga, exercise and meditation can be employed as a means of treatment as these activities, especially yoga, have been recognized for their therapeutic effects (Woodyard, 2011). I was able to learn from your description on how stress and anxiety disorders can wreak havoc on one's physical health. Personally, I have witnessed the havoc stress can wreak on someone's health as unfortunately,
According to studies, women have a 30.5% chance of being diagnosed with anxiety than men.
As Mahatma Gandhi said, "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be." Therefore, if you feel that you are a very stressed person or doomed to feel stressed out, then you will likely find ways to manifest that stress through your perception on life. In addition, you won 't even bother to learn how to deal with stress because you won 't believe you can.
Anxiety is a feeling of fear, restlessness and unease about a situation that is approaching and at the same time we are unclear about what this situation is or what the exact reason for our state of malaise is. Unlike in fear, where we know exactly what is that we fear and what its causes are. For example, being assaulted in that situation we can experience the specific fear that we are being assaulted.
Throughout my college career, I have experienced both tremendous stress and overwhelming anxiety. This was caused by my heavy workload. I also was involved in several organizations, especially last semester. I was constantly on-the-go, and was barely getting any sleep. This lack of sleep was not due to stress, but because I genuinely had a lot of work to do. I realized I was experiencing tremendous stress and overwhelming anxiety was during exam week during last spring semester. I had over slept and had to rush to finish one of my last papers. I was being really hard on myself and began getting upset. This would turn into a panic attack. After it subsided and was able to relax, I knew I had to find a way start relieving my stress. I have also
exposure gradually increases as the anxiety the client feels when they are in that environment
First of all, adjusting to academic challenges in the freshman year can create stress for students in a variety of ways. First-year students experience stress while trying to keep up with the new academic workloads in college, which are completely different and more challenging than the workloads in high school. To illustrate this, in Alan Schwartz’s article in the New York Times magazine entitled “More College Freshmen Report Having Felt Depressed,” he wrote about the results
Over the course of the last few decades, America has been faced with a tremendous increase in anxiety and other stress related disorders. This increase in anxiety has brought on more than just anxious thoughts and feelings, but has in turn increased those becoming dependent on prescription pills, use of psychotherapy and other various mental health services, and has also increased stress among individuals throughout the nation. Whether this stress and anxiety is being influenced by the monetary reasons, the competitive workforce, declining economy, family responsibilities, relationships, personal health concerns, job stability, health problems affecting family, or personal safety, something needs to be done to help alleviate this seemingly
Moving from a place where we are so familiar with to the unknown is a terrifying feeling we could experience. It is a terrifying feeling because we get attached to the place that we come to know and love. Reason being we are familiar with the streets that we drive on, the houses around the neighborhood. We know how to get from one place to another. We are familiar with the people around our surroundings. It is a daily routine that we come to get so comfortable with but we should always welcome change since it is part of life taking risks and pushing to come out of our comfort zone to experience new things. It is a hard thing to do sometimes because we are close-minded and frankly, we are never ready for change. We fear what the outcome
Throughout my life, I have come to realize that work-life balance is essential to life satisfaction. However, with finals fast approaching, college students are studying harder, and stress levels are rising. Life satisfaction is a cognitive component of well-being and plays a significant role when decoding mental health concerns. To explore the relationship between stress and mental health, researchers Cahit Kaya, Timothy N. Tansey, and Macid Melekoglu administered a questionnaire based study to 235 college students in Turkey.
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017, I attended a Stress and Anxiety workshop at the Miller Learning Center in room 207 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The event was hosted by University Health Center Counseling and Psychiatric Services for personal enrichment. The purpose of this session was to learn about new ways to manage stress and anxiety while maintaining a hectic schedule. As I entered the room, there was a group of 30 diverse students - ones who I would assume had everything under control. It became less nerve-racking as there were students ranging from freshman to seniors, boys and girls, students of color - anxiety bonded us together. Our instructor, Dr. Debra Kay Alvis, provided a calm and kind presence: soothing her audience after their long day of stress. She broke her lecture into two sections: science and experiment.
Young adults, or adolescents, begin their last four grades of statutory education in a place called high school. The purpose of this arduous journey is to teach a large range of prosperous skills, information, and knowledge that will aid students throughout college and ultimately the real world. In the society we live in today, however, people never question the pressure this quantitative form of education imposes upon students. This crushing, mortifying stress plummets the mental and physical health of pupils—sometimes to the point of no return. Colleges contribute greatly to this injustice as well: tuition fees and acceptance rates result being the primary concerns of families across the nation. Today’s society should not endorse the over pressurization of college, as that in return results in the declination of health of high school students.
Preparing for college in this day and age is a whole new level of competition. High school students are now packing their lives full of activities and hours studying to look like the best candidate for their top choice schools. High school juniors are now not just striving to do well on standardized tests, but to get the perfect score, and anything less than a 4.0 GPA just won’t do. The little free time that these students have is filled with clubs, sports, volunteering, or even all three. Universities are becoming more and more selective, which is driving students to outdo their peers to claim their spot at their dream school. I didn’t make even a fraction of the effort that these students are, and even I felt the pressure. I can’t even begin to fathom how hard these students are working, and the amount of pressure they are under. Reading the stories of these students drove me to want to find out more. We all know how stressful preparing for college can be, but I suspect that these students are far more stressed out than most people are aware of.