What is stress? Firstly, stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When people feel stressed by something going on around them, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger. But this can also be a bad thing, if their stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength. This class will discuss different causes of stress, how stress affects you, the difference between 'good' or 'positive' stress and 'bad' or 'negative' stress, and some common facts about how stress affects people today. So, how do stress affect us? Stress can affect both your body and your mind. People under large amounts of stress can become tired, sick, and unable to concentrate or think clearly. Sometimes, they even suffer mental breakdowns.
First of all, the stresses are mostly came when we have financial problems. One of the stresses the adult used to faced was the high debt of credit cards. Nowadays, we could actually buy things without using cash. Therefore, we do not control our money spent by us daily. Moreover, the savings rates have been steadily declining since a peak in the earHly 80’s when it was almost 18%. Today savings is pretty much non-existent hovering around 2% to 5%. This is far from what we need to save to be financially secure in the future. This is a real serious problem because our financial future both on a macro level and a micro level is largely dependent on how much we save today. Unfortunately the real consequence of a low savings rate has yet to be seen. Nevertheless, there is no formal education on money. Who teach us to use our money systematically? There is only a few formal financial education in the school system. There is very little offered in the workplace. So many people have to learn from friends or family but that creates it’s own set of problems because many of them don’t have the knowledge, ability or resources to teach others about money. In conclusion of this paragraph, the stress could come from the financial problems which faced by us now and made us depressed.
In another hand, teenagers in the era of globalization have many stresses which mainly come from their studies. It is because most of the modern parents wanted their child to get a superb results in their examination. Therefore, the parents will arranged their children's schedule packed with tuition and activities. In spite of that, teenagers hold a lot of responsibility in their respective society. The above reasons can cause them stress and will get them in trouble. Then, they will eventually cause problems in school and becomes a discipline problem which will directly stressed up the teachers too. Also, when the examination is close they will burn their midnight oil to study in order to get a good result. They also will stressed themselves up to think a better way in order to study effectively. When they did not reach the target that their parents gave, they will feel sad and get pressure. Indirectly, this will increase the rate of people commit suicide. In retrospect, all the authority should try to avoid stress in order to let the teenagers to live in a peaceful life. It is because teenager's life was supposed to be the most happiest moment in our whole life.
Also, parents divorce will also cause their children to stress. Before they divorce, they will quarrelled and fought everyday and lead their children to feel depressed. In contrast, after they divorce the children which do not know who they wanted to follow have to choose whether going with mother or father. This is hard for them to make such an important decision. They will feel stressful and having problems in their daily routines. In addition, the children will tease by their friends if they do not have a mother or a father. This will lead the child to have pressure to go to school and social activities. Therefore, they will stay at home and lock themselves up I the room the whole day. So before deciding to divorce, make sure you have done all you can to improve your relationship to prevent our children being stress over their parents. Moreover, divorce will highlights your fears and sensitivities, so old wounds from the past might resurface. You will need to recover your self-esteem, which will take time. Hence, divorce is kind of a serious thing that will effect our children in either mentally or physically.
In conclusion, there are many reasons that causes the stress among the teenagers nowadays. Therefore, we need to learn how to solve our problems and do not ever stressed yourself up.
