Do you consider yourself to be stressed?

I do consider myself as being a little bit stressed. This is a physical response to threatening situations that helps us to survive. Nonetheless, I experience stress whenever I cannot cope with my daily demands when facing problematic situations in my work life. Many of the stressors that I face in life are usually quite difficult and not under my control. My response to this such things has had a great impact to my stress levels. Many thoughts that I have had and actions I have undertaken when I am stressed can lead to an increase of my stress levels by creating other problems. More often than not I feel depressed over my under achievement of tragic events that have taken lace in my life. This leads to some form of stress.
2) Were you surprised by the results of your self-assessments?
I was a little bit surprised by the Perceived stress scale that was able to help me understand how a different situation affected my feelings and my perceived stress. My PSS score was 4. From the PSS scale, the scores that ranged room 0-13 indicate that I have low stress levels. I was also surprised by the frequency of the symptoms of stress that I experienced over the years. Top of my list was irritability, boredom. These are symptoms that I would experience quite frequently. Other symptoms that I experienced was anxiety, eating too much difficulty in sleeping, headache, restlessness and constipation. However this was not on a regular basis.
The results I established from the Inventory of Collage Students’ Recent Life Experiences also took me by surprise as I was able to determine my exposure to different source of stress . I able to determine the intensity of those stressors and to get an overall score of 82. I was also able to determine which type of hassle played a greater part of my life. Hassle like Too many things to do at once, Struggling to meet your own academic standards, Not enough time to meet your obligations and financial burdens greatly impacted my life. These were the things that I had to look into more deeply so that I could manage my stress levels. The student stress scale also made me understand how each life event and the amount of readjustment that resulted to change. A major life event that I underwent is the death of a close family member. This made me stressed for quite a long time. My total score was 102. From the scale, it indicates that I have a 30 percent chance of serious health change.
3) In what areas would you like to become more stress-free?
The ability to handle my personal problems, the ability not to cope with all things that I have to do. I also want to be able to handle my upsets because things happened unexpectedly. I also want to to manage how often have you been angered because of things that happened that were outside of your control. If If am able to control this this sources of stress I will be stress free.

Work cited

Bickerstaff, Linda. Stress. New York: Rosen Pub, 2006. Print.