stress.docx

2012 Apr. 5 Robin StressNowadays, dozens of people said that they feel stressed more and more, because our social view has changed, it makes us work more than before and bought many other effects on us. However, what stress is? Scientists define that stress is body physical response to perceived demand, threaten or danger. Stress is like a sword with two edges, which brings many advantages and disadvantages. For example, stress help people concentrate on their working. On the other hand, there is a survey conducted by the American Institute of Stress. 75% to 90% of family has stress-related symptoms. It costs over 300 billion dollars every year on medical spent and productivity lost that means government spends 3,000 dollars on every American worker. Form the serious problem. it is becoming necessary for us having surveyed the causes of stress.Well, the causes of stress are manifold. In general, we can separate them into outer causes and inner causes. First of all, the outer reasons are more frequent to make pressure on people. People get a lot of pressure from major life events, small problem and so on. In early 1950s, psychiatrist Thomas Holmes from university of Washington indicated that big life change such as death in family, new job and marriage can contribute stress, because those problems make people have a bad mode that cause people feeling depression. However it wont bring illness. According to the research of Psychiatrist Thomas Holmes and psychologist Richard Raphe, they were working together and asked 5000 people and rank the scale of events of our life influence on stress to them. The result demonstrated that death of spouse get 100 stress points, divorce is 73, spousal separation is 65 and imprisonment is 63. Actually, whats more interesting is that not all stress came from sadness events. For instance, marriage got 50 and pregnancy got 40 points. Not only major life events, also some small problems make stress on us. Having surveyed 210 Florida police officers, we can see that they are like to do some dangerous works more than daily working such as some paper pushing, because they think those office works are boring but those dangerous works can be bought more fun to them. Moreover, research shows that those people stressed who live around airport and they are highly rate of stress related illness than residents of quieter areas. Therefore, environment also is a significant reason to cause stress.Compared with outer causes, inner causes also are surprising to cause people stressed. Experts think individual sense of control makes stress. Different personalities make people feel different level of stress. the study shows that when people play the roller coaster, sitting on different seats embody those peoples personalities like those people who sitting in front of the train means they enjoy it, who sitting in the back shows they are shy, and who choosing sitting in the middle means they dont care about it at all. Those people sitting ahead of train belong to the type A who almost is obsession that want to do many things in a short of period of time. Of course, tape A is easier and more stressful than common people. Against type A, type B is calmer people. They are feeling less stress in same situation with type A.All in all, we cannot change our society which is fully pressure, but we can change our self to release ourselves. Greed is one of the seven of deadly sins, and it also is the reaso