Lesson 5

• Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances
• stress is a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and diseases
• stress is losing the capacity to manage your life and its circumstances
• stressor - is a chemical or biological agent, environmental conditions, external stimulus, or an event that causes stress to an organism
• External stressors - includes changes in temperature and stressful psychological environment
• external stressors include: Physical environment, social (interaction with people, organizational, and daily hassles
• External stressors in physical environment - noise bright lights, heat, confined spaces
• External stressors in social - interaction with people: rudeness, bossiness, or agressiveness
• external stressors in organizational - rules, regulations, "red tape". promotion, new baby
• red tape -  something that takes much longer than it should and involves more procedures, forms, or rules than make sense. 
• external stressors in Daily hassles - commuting (traffic), misplacing keys, mechanical breakdowns
• internal stressors - include physical ailments such as infection or inflammation, and psychological problems (worrying)
• internal stressors - come from inside of us and determine how you cope and handle external stressors.
• Internal stressors include: expectation, fear, uncertainty and lack of control, overall health and fitness levels, pessimistic thinking, lack of sleep, and lifestyles/ habits
• Becky Beacom (2015) - adolescence "a period of storm and stress"
• Becky Beacom (2015) adolescence "a period of storm and stress" - homework/school (55%), parents and family expectations (15%), social life (9%), lack of sleep, time, multitasking (8%), sports (9%), others (9%)
• Strategies for coping with stress for a healthy life - the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2015) states the sources for adolescents : school demands and frustrations, negative thoughts and feelings about themselves etc.