Essays on Chronic Stress

Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

A00493777 Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Introduction

According to a recent presentation by The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength and stamina, and it is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States proposal

Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health related complications (Azevedo Da Silva et al., 2012). Thus implementing a regular physical activity ...

A number of factors are responsible for potentially causing the increase rate of suicidal risk in our patients. This ranges from the biological, psychosocial to cultural causes. Biological causes can be caused by a state of a mental disorder linked with biological changes. The disorder is known to cause depressions among patients. It accounts for the highest probability of suicidal behaviors amongst individuals at a variety of ages. People with the mental disorder are more vulnerable to suicidal risks than those with mental illness. The disorder is known to be heritable along the family line where it could have ...

Introduction

There has been a lot of interest between physical health and mental illness. There is a bidirectional relationship between physical health and mental health (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2008). People who are diagnosed with severe mental illness are faced with a higher likelihood of developing various physical conditions, some of which are fleeting while others are chronic (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2008). Additionally, the people who are diagnosed with certain conditions that affect their physical health have a two-fold risk of developing anxiety and depression when compared to the other population (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2008). The correlation between ...

In the presentation titled “Emotions Stress and Rate of Telomere Shortening: Are Our Cells Listening to Us?” Dr. Elissa Epel from the University of California (UCTV) department of psychiatry shows that stress speeds up the aging process at a genetic level. She chose to use caregivers in this case mothers with children suffering from a chronic condition in her study because they are prone to stress in their work. She focuses on how cell aging specifically on stress, thoughts and lifestyle in addition to addressing gene expression and restoring resiliency. Her major assertion is that when cells divide some ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Prospectus: The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as ...

This paper is divided into three different sections; 1) relevant subjects in 1990, discussed in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in volume 59, issue 6, 2) methodology used within the article, “Chronic Parenting Stress: Moderating Versus Mediating Effects of Social Support, and 3) a comparison between two articles, the first being a professional article and the second being a newspaper article. Other outside sources will be included within the text to verify information used in the study. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology covers many topics, but in 1990 there were several topical trends. One trend ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Prospectus: The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as ...

Stress and Quality of Life

Stress is the body's response to any action that disturbs the equilibrium or a stable state of health. This impact can be both emotional and physical. Nowadays people do not need to hunt for wild animals to feed themselves and do not need to run away from predators. The main idea is that stress is a widespread experience that negatively impacts the quality of life. Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer et al. (2010) wrote an article named "Chronic stress experience in young physicians: impact of person- and workplace-related factors." The authors had the objective to consider the impact of workplace factors on ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States proposal

Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health related complications (Azevedo Da Silva et al., 2012). Thus implementing a regular physical activity ...

Self-Knowledge

Self-knowledge is the process of self-awareness, understanding your deep essence, the meaning of life and your physical and mental capabilities. This need was originally laid in a person, as opposed to animals. A human makes almost everything in his life himself: selects the target, makes and corrects his mistakes, builds relationships with other people. Having come to an understanding of the meaning of his abilities, he becomes interesting not only to others, but also to himself, his personal self-esteem, quality and fullness of life increase. “I” concept is an individual's perception of himself and his role in the world. ...

A homeless individual is a person without a regular, satisfactory, and fixed residence for spending a night. The primary residence of such a person is mostly supervised shelter for providing a temporary accommodation. These shelters include emergency shelters and transitional houses that only provide temporary housing. It is a major concern in the US despite being among the most developed countries in the World. Most of the cities in different states in the US are typically faced with the challenge of homelessness. California is among the states that have high levels of street families. Homeless persons usually experience many ...

When a person wants to lose weight, he just wants to get rid of excess fat. However, in the reality it often turns out that the majority of modern diets and training methods cannot burn fat. The result is that people together with fat lose muscle mass.

The Role of the Thyroid Gland

Low thyroid hormone level often causes a general slowing of the metabolic rate, including the inhibition of processes of fuel utilization by muscles, lack of power, increased sensitivity to cold and catarrhal diseases. Today low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets have high popularity. People suffering from insulin resistance may gain an advantage from them by ...

Unnatural causes

The series of documentaries attempts to answer the question on how inequality affects our health. The investigators discover that there is more to human health than just medical care, genetic makeup, and behaviors. The social, economic, and physical environment on our upbringing and workplace highly affect our health. Other practices such as smoking, exercise and diets have influence in our longevity and health too. The issue of color being a factor and determinant in health has changed with increased equality between all American citizens. It is clear that most the new and young mother in America have no direct ...

Abstract

This research paper sought to explain the issue of depression in the elderly population in the modern context and to give the grounds that multifactorial depression is primarily a psychological issue. The analysis included a brief summary of the concept of depression among senior citizens as seen by the World Health Organization and researchers. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the onset of depression was based on the necessity to consider the risk factors in terms of psychological, biological, social, cultural, economic and family. The observations allowed centering on the major risks of depression in older adults as ...

Studies have shown that stress can be beneficial to some level. Every individual is faces life challenges that require them to react in the best way that will promote their survival. According to a new neuroscience field, there is a mental zone that can slow down the hyperactive part of the brain that responds to stress, and at the same time allow the brain networks perform at maximum levels (Goewey 1). When this mental zone is activated, success can be achieved in all areas of one’s life. However, excessive stress can cause damage to the body if not ...

What was your “Stress Test” score? 23

I do not think that the test accurately captures my experiences since its normal to experience stress as a result of my high expectations. Therefore, I think that normal stress levels do not necessarily mean I have a problem,

Stress, stressors, and coping

Psychologists differentiate stressors, strain, and stress through the meaning of the terms. A stressor is something that activates the release of stress hormones. Common stressors include practicing unhealthy habits, not having enough time, expecting too much, etc. Moreover, stress is a medical term that refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli, comprising of both physiological and psychological response, ...

Introduction

Women as caregivers is a significant issue because it has been hypothesized by many scholars that the stress associated with multiple roles can be conducive to physical and mental health problems. However, this is a controversial topic because they are some experts who contend that benefits are gained with this additional responsibility. There appears to be a myriad of literature that places emphasis on the stress of women engaging in multiple roles. Women have always been considered responsible for domestic chores. parenting and in some instances caring for elderly parents. A few decades ago women were not required to work outside ...

Part 1: Stress and Weight Gain

The hormones implicated in the weight gain response that some individuals experience when stressed are adrenaline, CRH or corticotropin-releasing hormone, and cortisol. This response is an evolutionary adaptation to cope with high energy expenditure of human’s hunter-gatherer ancestor, but it modern day, this response is due to psychological stressors from chronic worry and anxiety from daily life. The problem with this adaptation in modern humans is that the hormones do not have the same effect it once did, which was to provide energy for a hunt and subsequently replenish the body. However, the modern human neither expels a lot of ...

There are certain events in the life of every person which have an important bearing on the rest of his life. Events that in many meaningful ways change the course of life of an individual, by transforming the way he thinks, speaks, carries himself around, and in ways he interacts with the others in his surroundings. Events that change life style for better or for the worse are termed as significant life events (Brannon et al., 2013). 1.1 The significant life events are mainly of two types. These significant life events in the life of an individual are ...

Introduction

It is not possible to discuss the matters related to mobility and social class without a discussion concerning poverty. In simple words, poverty can be described as the insufficient provision of shelter and food that is essential for life maintenance. According to an estimate, there are more or less thirty five million American citizens are living in poverty in the present times (Hart, 2002). Poverty is one of those grave social phenomenon that are extremely complicated. For the same reason, it is also a complicated task to try to discover the causes of poverty. There are a number of stereotypic explanations regarding ...

Robert Sapolsky, one of the famous professors of neurology and biology and at Stanford University wrote the book “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” to compare and contrast the stress responses in humans and animals. The book draws attention to experimental science to understand the concept of stress. Sapolsky’s research on animal behavior for several years in the forests of Africa forms the foundation of the book. The book gives an account of the impact of stress in humans and the strategies that enable to cope with the stress. The different chapters in the book explain the effect ...

Introduction

I am extremely interested in organizational behavior – as a prospective future leader of an organization, it is immensely important that I learn exactly how organizations behave and interact if I am to make full use of each employee’s specific traits and skills. An organization is a powerful collective of unique minds and special attributes, and it is the responsibility of a leader to harness those energies in a powerful, productive and ethical way. One way in which a leader can be most effective is to facilitate trustworthiness between individuals, as well as promote ethical stewardship in leadership behavior. I am also very interested ...

Vulnerability to Web Addiction

Management Vulnerability to Web Addiction\ Introduction The vulnerability to the web addiction could be followed in the various reasons such as it is the psychological or the physical process involved and it can be said as something that transform the deeds into the habit formation. Addiction could be related to anything under the sky. The predictors of vulnerability to the addiction are of the view that the stress the chief factor has now known it upsurge the vulnerability to the new coined term addiction. The studies that have been conducted all over the world regarding the ...

(Author) Stress is a condition of mental or emotional strain or tension. Body responds to various stressors every day. Stressors may include emotional reactions to situations such as traffic, heat, or cold from the environment or an object, heavy bleeding from a wound, or even substance abuse. There are three phases or stages of the stress response. In Stage 1, which is represented by Alarm reaction, body gives instantaneous response to the physical, mental, or emotional upset. This response is also known as “fight or flight” response. In Stage 2, which is represented by Resistance, body responds by moving towards ...

Culturally-competent nursing

Culturalogical assessment is significant while providing nursing care to individuals, families, groups and institutions of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Leininger’s theory of culture care diversity and universality (CCDU) emphasizes on the vital role of nurses in entering the client’s world to discover cultural knowledge embedded within individual and family values. Therefore, nurses should be knowledgeable about the client’s culture and factors influencing their needs and lifeways. In today’s era of globalization, diverse populations are disseminated in all corners of the world. Barriers exist in the healthcare practices for the diverse populations and there is ...

Stress has been a common “illness” among professional’s alike and ordinary people. Several have been claiming that they are stress out. This claim has resulted to numerous drugs that are available over the counter to reduce stress. In addition, stress reliever sessions and classes have also been put up by psychologists or even gym instructors just for the purpose of reducing the stress that a person is feeling. What is stress and what causes it? Psychologically speaking, stress is defined as a reaction to a stimulus that can affect both the physical and mental equilibrium. As a result, it can cause numerous disturbances ...

Abstract

Both chronic stress and an exposure to a traumatic experience can cause a myriad of issues, both mentally and physically. If the physical and emotional symptoms that accompany prolonged stress or posttraumatic stress disorder is not addressed, the effects can be lethal. Fortunately, research has helped us to understand the impact stress has on one’s mental and physical well-being, leading to developments within the field of psychology known as positive psychology. Through monitoring the mind-body connection, the effects of stress can be reduced greatly. The following paper will address the diagnostic criteria and background of PTSD, the biological changes that ...

Symptoms and Coping Strategies for Caregivers

Patricia Caldoron Grand Canyon University Symptoms and Coping Strategies for Caregivers Compassion fatigue is a state in which an individual feels mentally, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. As medical professionals, nurses often encounter compassion fatigue because of their empathic relationships with patients and their dedication to helping prevent, cure, and manage illness. However, by becoming preoccupied with their patients’ problems and overwhelmed by their responsibilities and workloads in healthcare, nurses will often neglect their own physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Prolonged neglect results in compassion fatigue symptoms that can be categorized into cognitive, emotional, behavioral, spiritual, and somatic ...

Introduction

This research paper compares and contrasts the views of professionals with respect to fibromyalgia; whether it is of psychological or physical nature / origin. Having conducted the following research and studied the views of others, especially those who we would all hope should know – the medical professionals, the view of this researcher is that fibromyalgia is more psychological in nature, even though that opinion is changed considerably from the view that was almost universally held in less enlightened times, when referring to a condition as having psychological causes was interpreted as implying the person was suffering from a mental illness, which ...

It has been a common observation in our societies that someone doing the same job for years eventually gets fad up from it and tries to avoid it as much as possible. His efficiency gets weak he does not remain able to provide further effective work outcomes as he was used to do. In extreme cases, it has also been observed that the person eventually leaves the job since he feels that he cannot do any more work. Similarly, when someone is assigned to take care of some person who is chronically ill or disable, initially the caregiver has enthusiasm ...

Abstract

The hippocampus is a part of the limbic system found in the temporal lobe. Hippocampal neurogenesis, the ability of the hippocampus to generate/produce new neurons all through to adulthood, has been linked to emotion moderation, spatial navigation, learning, memory, and cognitive function. These functions are usually impaired in depression and anxiety and hence the speculations that hippocampal neurogenesis plays a critical role in the etiology, pathophysiology and even the treatment depression and anxiety. The hippocampal neurogenesis hypothesis attempts to explain the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in the development of depression and anxiety based on findings from various studies. Findings that neurogenesis ...

Compassion fatigue is a condition that results from emotional, mental, and spiritual depletion, and it includes various symptoms, such as a sense of hopelessness, chronic stress, or constant anxiety. It is considered a secondary traumatic stress disorders because it affects people working with patients who have experienced or are experiencing traumas. While there is no direct experience for their caregivers, empathic engagement with patients provides an emotionally traumatic experience for the caregiver. The first mention of compassion fatigue was in 1992, when Joinson studied burnout characteristics among nurses in the emergency department. After finding their dissatisfaction with work, chronic fatigue, and ...

The New Family Norm

Personality theories A theory can be defined as a theory of reality which helps in understanding, explaining, predicting and controlling that reality. A theory can also be defined as a guide to action. Mostly when we talk about the personality of a person, we are talking about the behavior that makes that person different from others perhaps unique. This feature of personality is referred to as individual differences. As it is evident, some people are neurotic, others are not, and others are more introverted while other people are more extroverted and so on. Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud are some of ...

Hans Selye (1907-1982) a famous endocrinologist and scientist introduced the general adaptation model (GAS) that describes phases that state the impact of stress on individuals. In this piece of writing I will highlight and critically examine the three distinct stages of Selye’s GAS model and how this model explains the relationship between stress and illness.

Alarm Stage

According to Selye, there is a general stimulation of the nervous system in the initial phase reaction. Here, the sympathetic nervous functioning is hindered resulting in hypothermia, hypotension and reduction in muscle tone. Moreover, he cites other manifestations that include hypoglycemia, hemoconcentration, and hypochlororemia. Furthermore, ...

Introduction

Over the years, there has been a lot of research to establish a link between stress (maternal stress and fetal stress) with premature births. A normal human pregnancy will take between 37 and 42 weeks. A preterm labor is one that starts when the 37 weeks of pregnancy have not elapsed. Premature deliveries are usually caused by many factors depending on the environment the mother lives. Stress is one of the causes of preterm deliveries and also one of the most common. Pregnancy is a period when a woman’s body experiences so many changes. The woman’s emotional functions and ...

The four main developmental stages of psychological development are childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Adolescence is a form of transition from childhood to adulthood, and it is the most confusing developmental stage because people begin to question and discover their personal identity, social identity, and social roles. Adolescence is a stage of development during which people develop objectives, values, and beliefs which will serve as their principles and guidelines during adulthood. However, building an identity does not have to necessarily end with adolescence, and suppressed or false identity issues can arise at any point during adulthood. Although people can experience ...

Abstract

Stress is a dynamic and interactional process involving intricate body systems with formulations and operationalisation of the components at different levels(1).There is growing evidence that there is a positive correlation between emotional stress and oral health. As will be demonstrated from the literature reviewed in this paper emotional stress can be implicated in oral problems such as ulcerative conditions, inflammatory conditions, dental decay, TMD, RAS and others that continue to be linked to stress. Stress has also been found to aggravate some oral conditions such as oral lichen planus. In some of these conditions the precise mechanisms by which ...