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Question
Stress is an emotional feeling that causes mental, physical, and emotional tension. Stress is caused by so many different factors regarded as stressors. Stress can be acute or chronic, acute stress is for a short time frame that does not last long and disappear fast, meanwhile chronic stress is a long-lived form of stress that persists for a very long time. So many people battled stress in different ways although some try to avoid stress, but it is a normal part of life that we all have to deal with. The causes of stress vary from person to person, some people see it in a negative way but on the other hand, it can bring the best to us. With the difficulty in stress, one can work very hard to change the situation.
In addition, stressors can bring change in people's lives and this can occur to anybody, especially students because of their homework and financial difficulties. We have to know that in life, not everybody reacts to stressor in the same way because people have different ways of handling situations . Furthermore, what some people will take as stress to some other person it is not stress because the person can handle that problem. There is a saying that, "another person's meat is another person's poison". Some of the stressors affecting a lot of students include college programs, financial obligations, and major life changes.
College programs
Students who get too little sleep, have poor diets, or have too much downtime set by their college programs have high stress levels. Other students are stressed as a result of changes in their programs, either in their exams, cultural activities, courses, or timetables. Even though many students get stressed without expecting it to happen, some common signs and symptoms exhibited by such students include anxiety, anger, decision-making challenges, sleeplessness, and headaches. For effective management and treatment of students stressed up by their college programs, the medical practitioner handling the patient should ask them questions that will help unearth the specific stressors affecting the students that need to be evaluated.
Financial Obligations
Everybody, including students, has financial obligations that they have to meet for life to become stable. Financial burden can be very stressful, affecting the health of a person in countless ways and consequently affect people's career and lifestyle, making it impossible to work out things. Like many other people, students are concerned about how to meet their financial obligations. These obligations may include payments for classes, repayment of loans, and paying for accommodations and other bills. Also, these payments have to be met regardless of the income levels for individual involvement. Financial obligations are a major cause of stress to many students who struggle not to burden their parents with the cost of college life. Students stressed by financial obligations tend to argue about money with people around them, experience mood swings, anger, tiredness, muscle pain, and loss of appetite. Thus, it is important to first understand the main cause of financial stress for individual students to advise them on the best strategies that can be used for their stress management.
Major life changes:
Some people are stressed after undergoing major life changes. For instance, losing love, graduation from college or high school, marriage, or having children are some of the most commonly encountered major life changes. Usually, these signifiers of change are accompanied by stress, where individuals are worried about what to expect next. Also, some common signs and symptoms are exhibited by people who are stressed after experiencing such life changes. These signs include anger, sadness, restlessness, anxiety, lack of motivation, or feeling overwhelmed . Thus, an effective assessment of individual stress conditions resulting from major life changes using the therapeutic and nonjudgmental technique requires a deep knowledge of the patient's psychological needs that call to be met. This knowledge can be acquired by asking the patient questions that are directly related to them instead of focusing on the challenges that they are going through.
Some of the questions to ask a client regarding stress include "What are you here for?", "what they think is the problem from their perspective, and how the issue makes them feel.