Stress Management: How to Prevent and Cope with Stress

Facts 

Stress is a mental physical and emotional response to felt challenges as a result of a particular stimulus or strenuous occasions. Stressors, on the other hand, are stimuli or events that cause stress at any given time; they can be positive or negative causing eustress and distress respectively. Stress can be caused by many stressors including major life events, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic conditions, and conflicts. This text, therefore, seeks to evaluate the causes stress and identify the impact of studying stress 

Analysis 

Eustress and distress contrast because in the former stress reactions are to positive stressors while in the latter, stress reaction is to unpleasant stressors. Major life events such as the death of a close friend cause disruptive changes in the life of a person leading to stress. This is different from posttraumatic stress disorder which is a more severe response considering that an individual acquires stress after being exposed to life-threatening occasions such as sexual violence. A chronic disorder, on the other hand, differs from the two because a person gets stress as a result of continuous stimulation of nerves when they recognize that their demands surpass the capacity to meet them.Unlike the other cases discussed, conflict is dissimilar since it makes a person to have uneasiness when they are confronted with tough choices which require right decisions. 

Impacts 

Understanding that stress makes an individual undergo mental and physical disorientation is key. The study of stress is, thus, very fundamental because when one is knowledgeable on the stressors, they will be able to avoid them and consequently live a healthy life. Also, knowing the different approaches to cope with stress will help an individual to adopt a method that best suits their strenuous events. Furthermore, understanding the difference between the various stressors will assist psychologist counselors to assist the patients accordingly. 

Restatement 

The different causes of stress are distinct relating to how they affect individuals` stress response. For instance, a person exposed to life-threatening events has more severe stress reactions than a person undergoing major life events. Further still, it is apparent that these stressors have different occasions where they occur hence making them diverse. Generally, despite the fact that these stressors have the same impact on an individual, they are different in the magnitude of impact on those individuals.