Stress On The Body Research Paper

Stress on the Body Stress can, and will, control every aspect of a college student’s life. Students do not let stress take over on purpose, but it creeps into their daily lives and slowly take over to where the student is constantly stressed. The causes of stress can be from anything ranging from a quiz in the future to worrying about how to pay off student loans in the future. After a while the stress develops more stress. It does not take long for stress to build up, but when stress does build up, it affects the body in many ways. As students go through school, they strive to do their best so that they can to impress their parents, teachers, and peers; however, some students cannot keep up with the other students or the standards that are set for them to be successful. So whenever the student has several deadlines all around the same time, it will cause the student to become stressed because of the school work. Also, students who have disabilities, such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder will naturally have trouble in the learning environment which causes them to be stressed. Those students are at a disadvantage compared to the others, because they have to keep up with the other students. Along with trying to make good grades in school, the student will want to develop relationships while he is in the school setting. Doing this may cause more stress added onto what is already present at school. This is especially true at smaller schools where everyone knows each other and is easy for information to get around. Some people have adapted to using this small channel of contacts to spread false information about anything that they want. So if a peer may not like a student, the peer can spread believable false information to the population of the school. Because of this happening, some people may have an increase in both their anxiety and their stress levels. Along with relationships, worrying about money can add a tremendous amount of stress to the average person. …show more content…
Because money is used to get almost anything, it is often used as a measure of success. Some people will take the necessity of money and worry about it enough to do nothing but stress over it. When it comes to money, it is easy to start to worry about when their bills are due, when their pay check comes in, how they are going to pay off their loans, or if they can buy certain objects. If that person is short on money that month due to a loss of hours at his work, he will feel stressed about what is necessary to get with the money and how to budget everything. After the stress from the previous examples settles into a person’s daily life, it will not take long for the stress to build up and start to affect the body. It does not take long for the physical effects such as fatigue, nervousness, and increased heart rate to start and take effect. Many internal effects like higher blood pressure take effect much later than the physical effects and many times affects the health in a negative way. If a person does not start to relieve their stress by relaxing and lowering his blood pressure, could cause some severe long term damage to his health. Stress can also cause a person to have a lot of