Essay About Stress-Assessment And Stress Levels

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Elizabeth HildenbrandPSY-100November 27, 2016Amanda Laster-LoftusPsychology for Life        After taking the stress-assessment from
When a person is stressed it can interfere with their motivation and emotions. If something, like learning a no task, gets stressful, it can cause stress levels to rise and the motivation to finish learning a task to fall. For example, learning Spanish, it is a difficult language and has many small parts to understand. I for one, had a very hard time understand every little detail and finally just called it quits since I did not feel I was getting anywhere. It was a very stressful class when I did not understand what the instructor was talking about. When having my third and final child, I had an issue with the epidural and it caused me to have seizures. This has now become a stressful issue, since the three seizures I had affected my brain. Some of my memory has been affected and I cannot remember some details of my life, or, if I am asked to do something and I do not do it right then I will forget what it is. I now have to write everything down in a notepad just to remember the small things.         I normally just walk away from anything that is stressing me out. Now I have breathing exercises that I can do, even with my children. The YouTube video, Stress Management: Fun Stress Relief! Robert Rivest. Which is very interesting. Watching this video showed that even the simplest breathing can calm and de-stress a mood in minutes with no real physical movement. Another was counting, just by counting slowly it will calm nerves and take the stress off the mind to lower stress levels. I tend to count to ten when needed. Also, when someone sees me count and close my eyes, they know I have reached a breaking point.