Elaborate the given statement: “The only person without stress is a dead person”
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STRESS
Stress occurs anytime we must adjust or adapt to the environment. Whenever a challenge or a threat forces a person to adjust or adapt --and ultimately depends on how a situation is perceived. To know if a person is stressed, we must know what meaning the person places on events. Work pressures, travel, marital problems, sports, a new job, financial troubles, mountain climbing, dating, and other pleasant activities --all produce stress. It is a normal part of life. When it is severe or prolonged, it can do tremendous damage to one's health.
"To be totally without stress is to be dead." (Hans Selye, 1976)
A healthy lifestyle includes a fair amount of stress.
Body's stress reaction. Begins with ANS arousal. Short-term stresses of this sort rarely do any damage, however uncomfortable.
Stressors.
1. Lack of predictability
2. Much pressure
3. Lack of control or choice.
The unpredictable nature of one's work, for example. And, when activities must be speeded up due to deadlines, when extra work is added unexpectantly, or when a person must work near maximum capacity for long periods. And, more stress is felt in situations over which one has little control. Chronic stress at work can cause burnout. [Emotional "shocks" that are intense, repeated, unpredictable, uncontrollable, and linked to pressure --the stress will be magnified and damage is likely to result.]
Stressors appraised as a threat - What do we think and tell ourselves about stressors?
Threat has to do with one's idea of control.
One's personal sense of control in any situation comes from believing one can reach desired goals.
It is threatening for a person to feel that he or she lacks competence to cope with a particular demand.
A perceived lack of control is as important as actual lack of control in causing us to feel threatened.
An inability to control stressors is very similar to the conditions that cause learned helplessness.
FRUSTRATION
Frustration is a negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching a goal. One of many causes of stress. It is not the same as anger. Caused by obstacles of many kinds. As the strength, urgency, or importance of a blocked motive increases, frustration increases. Motivation becomes stronger as we near a goal, at which point frustration can become more intense. Effects of repeated frustrations can accumulate until a small irritation sets off an unexpectedly violent response --the straw that broke the camels back. There are external and personal sources of frustration.
External source: Based on conditions outside of the individual that impede progress toward a goal: delay, failure, rejection, loss, and other direct blocking of motives --social (slow drivers, tall people in theaters, people who cut into lines) or nonsocial (stuck doors, a dead battery, rain on the day of the game) --flat tire, proposal rejected, bare cupboard, etc. Most apt, as humans, to refer to behavior of another human --highly sensitive to social sources of frustration.
Personal source: Based on personal characteristics and limitations even though failure may be attributed to external causes.
REACTIONS TO FRUSTRATION
[Getting through or around a barrier]
Persistence. To get around a barrier, to reach a goal. Can be very adaptive. Characterized by more vigorous efforts more variable responses
Escape or Withdrawal. May mean actually leaving a source of frustration (dropping out of school, quitting a job, leaving a marriage), or psychologically escaping (apathy, pretending not to care, or use of drugs)
Aggression. Most persistent and frequent response to frustration, but it is not the first or only reaction. Direct aggression is disruptive and generally discouraged - so - frequently displaced or redirected to whomever or whatever, rather than at boss or teacher...
Thus we can say that-"The only person without stress is a dead person"
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