College Stress
College StressSTRESS IN COLLEGE
Everybody experiences stress in their lives. There are many stressors in college that start with college work. College is a big source of stress for a variety of reasons, and poor planning often leads to crisis situations. The stress of every day life in college shows itself in different ways: the expectations of making an A in every course, the fear of doing poorly on tests, and worrying about failing. However, as stress becomes more serious , we often begin to develop troublesome symptoms which we worry about. We are under stress if we have one or several of the many symptoms caused by stress, including: backaches, stomachaches, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, depression, anger, anxiety, forgetfulness or the inability to make decisions. We often feel that we are under stress -- and many times we are.
The most frequent cause of stress in college is the concern about academic performance and everything that goes with it, for example such as grades and exams. Some students strive for perfection in their academic performance.boy working very hard late at night and skipping meals to study. The yield of this consists of constant headaches and backaches, and getting really depressed because the student could never reach their goals of perfection. Dr. Hans Selye describes
stress as a side effect produced by any situation to which you respond in any way. It is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it. The demand may be pleasant or unpleasant, or damaging. The damaging type of stress is called distress. Within our body, when the arterial pressure falls, the pressure usually also falls in most of the blood storage areas such as veins, liver and the lungs. Consequently, a rise in arterial pressure is directly proportional to a rise in those same storage areas . This phenomenon is called "Stress-Relaxation". In other areas, such as in the smooth muscle, stress relaxations has the ability to change in length without marked changes in tension. It is amazing that almost any type of stress, whether it be physical or neurogenic, will increase the ACTH secretion by the interior pituitary gland and also with in minutes greatly increase secretions of cortisol. Some different types of stress that increase cortisol release are the following: 1. Trauma of almost any type 2. Infection 3. Intense or cold 4. Injection of norepinephrine and other symptomatic drugs 5. Surgical operations 6. Injection of necrotizing substances beneath the skin The effect physiological stress on ACTH secretion in any type of ACTH and consequently of cortisol as well, often can increase cortisol secretion up to 20 fold. It is believed that pain stimuli caused by the stress, are first transmitted upward through the brain stem to the perifornical area of the hypothalamus. In this sequence, eventually to the medial basal eminence where CRF is secreted into the hypophysial portal system. Within minutes...
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