College Stress

            There’s no doubt that College students are under a great amount of pressure, which again causes a lot of hardship and of course more stress. There is vast expectancy from our parents to do well in class while balancing work and family. The rise of college tuition is also another concern; in addition to that, many of the students are buried with debt. Plus with the slow economy, it is making it easier said than done to find jobs after graduation. Much like the rest of the world, it continues to get more and more competitive. Ughhhh!!! One thing after another; why is life so complicated? I’ve been away from school about eight years now and recently got back into it; wow I thought being deployed overseas was difficult.

            College life can be very stressful and very harmful when stress is excessive in ones life. By far, from what I have read and researched, depression and anxiety are the most prevalent problems students confront. The second leading cause of death among college students is suicide. The number one killer is accidents, which include accidental overdoses and drinking and driving deaths, many of which might be linked to depression and anxiety. I will refer back to the environment we are in and where ever you look stress stares you right in the face. Its like getting old, no matter what you do its inevitable.

            College life…..sometimes  parents, faculty and other influencers tend to idealize their college experience and remember it as one big party and good times. While they were in college, had very little to worry about or have any responsibilities. To the students presently attending college, however, the process is often discouraging and stressful. The struggle to get good grades, the demand to perform, relationships, fear of AIDS, career choice and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. Also stress is often caused by general unhappiness and a sense of aimlessness of lack of purpose. People sometimes wind up making choices and living life styles that is expected of them but don’t really fit them. A student may be studying Law because his or her parents studied law but in all realty he wants to be a photographer. That’s only the beginning, what about when you graduate and have to face the real world…

Death by Stress…...Slowly but Surely

What am I thinking about? Rent? Wow, were is all my money going? I feel a lump; I know cancer when I feel it. What is she up too? Why does she not like me? Why is he not answering my phone calls? I just want to end my life so I don’t have to suffer. STRESS, it is everyone’s bottomless pit. Stress, harassing our minds and tormenting our sleepless nights. Once, its purpose was to help us survive. Most of us have come to think that stress is bad for us, but is part of our fundamental survival system. Back in our Stone Age days where acute stress happens on a regular basis, it kept us more alert, more attuned to the environment and to what actually is a threat or not a threat. Now that our environment has changed, the onslaught of the modern world can stress us to the point of death.

Stress- a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc. It can also be define as something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety and physical force or pressure. May it be short-term or chronic stress, we all will encounter it one way or another. Repeated short-term stress is experienced during most day-to-day living situations. When you are endlessly beating deadlines or running errands. Chronic stress is the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period, which an individual perceives he or she has no control. When you have poor diet, inadequate sleep, lack of exercise, and mismanagement of mental and emotional stress.

Why do we live in such a stressful world? In a world were people are constantly building or making things to make life easier, why does stress still engulf people’s lives. In my opinion oneself creates stress. Lets go back to the Stone age, were we had to worry about a few things like hunting, gathering food or surviving mother nature. In the modern world we are not stressed on hunting or gathering food, we are stressed by each other, taxes, traffic, school, work, and maybe something as small as washing the dishes. Stress is created by social and psychological pandemonium invented by our own species.