Question

Discuss the psychological impact stress has on your life. Include a specific, personal real life example to support your answer.?

Answer 1

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary. Also, I haven’t answered the part about the personal life story as the teacher wants you to talk about your own experience.

(Answer) Depression, anxiety and stress are the three most common issues that psychologists have found in their patients. Over the years, with problems in finance and markets, jobs, pressures of society etc., there are more Americans who succumb taking anti-depressants.

When faced with a stressful situation, the physiological stress response consists of an activation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS)

• Types of responses:

• Fight or flight response (snap decision to make when faced with stress)
• Rest and digest response (calms the brain after the stress has been dealt with)
• Relaxation response. (Body and brain functions begin to come back to normal after the stress has passed. This is a coping mechanism.

Stress can have a severe impact on the nervous system, cause damage to brain cells and even affect blood pressure and heart health. There are some physical repercussions of stress that cannot be undone. Therefore, stress can be one of the most dangerous issues to face.