How Stress Affects My Everyday Life
Student name: Vivian Li
Student ID: 101863616
Course: EWII
Prof.: Jill Jackson
Stress is a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and depression. I had been through all these symptoms when I was under stress. Stress comes from everywhere and it occurs in our everyday life. As I have to face a lot of difficulties, problems and challenges in my everyday life, stress can affect me in three ways, and they are emotional, mental and physical.
The affect from stress on my emotion not only affect me but also the people around me. When under stress, my emotion will become very unstable and easy to get anger. Usually I feel like punch or destroy something to release the stress that I had. I remember once when I was young, I had a deadline essay that I had to hand it in on the next day, but I still don’t have enough information to finish it. Times were getting intense, yet my brother kept disturbing me and bagging me to play with him. By that time, I could feel my stress level were very high, that I could not hold back my temper any longer. I screamed and pulled my harmless little brother on the floor. Then my little brother started to cry in a helpless way. I looked at him and I started to cry too. I felt terrible that I hurt my flimsy and my only brother. At that point, I realized that how horrible can stress do to me, my loved one and people around me.