Monday, December 7, 2009

Periods 3, 5, 7 & 8 Blog 2.5 Stress

It seems from our last post that most of you are getting solid amounts of sleep. That is a great thing. Another aspect of recovery that we need to look out for is stress.

A study conducted on the stress and related problems of teens in the city of Baltimore showed the following figures.

The Biggest Causes of Stress
School work (78%)
Parents (78%)
Romantic relationships (64%)
Problems with friends (64%)
Siblings (64%)
The Conclusions of the Study are
Girls are affected more than boys
Girls respond to stress by seeking help from others or by taking certain actions to reduce or remove stress.
Boys respond to stress by not dealing with the stress at all or by engaging the mind away from the sources of stress.
Family members and friends are both sources of stress and support for teenagers.
Teenagers use both healthy and unhealthy ways to cope up with stress.

We are going to spend the next few posts talking about stress, how to identify it and was to deal with it.

First we need to be able to identify the things that cause us stress. For this weeks blog let me know what causes you stress. Think about the things that make you anxious, nervious, or occupy your thought more than you would want. Use the poll to the right to let me know what causes you stress. You do not have to post to comments this week, everyone will get credit for a blog this week, but I want you to answer the poll question.

41 comments:

  1. The biggest thing that causes me stress is school, homework and anything that requires mental energy.

    Wesley Chan

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  2. What causes me stress is chemistry, and being the new kid, but mostly chemistry.

    Theo Couloumbis

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  3. The things that cause me stress are waking up early, pressure, and homework.

    Melissa Libutti

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  4. definitely homework

    -Krisztian Mazo

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  5. School work, particularly large projects and college applications, cause most of my stress.

    -Tim Lenardo

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  6. Anything school, classroom related causes me stress. For example grades teachers and the amount of homework I have to do.

    Taylor Van Neste

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  7. School, sports, homework, family, grades and college apps causes some of my stress

    Steven Rubin

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  8. parents about school ... and thats all
    Sam cheng
    prd. 5

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  9. homework, waking up early, and tests/quizzes...

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  10. lack of sleep, amount of homework, parents nagging....
    --kathy chen

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  11. do we have to comment here or just do the poll?

    stress for me is mainly from school

    nina lish

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  12. Other- like family and sports
    Alex Kern

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  13. Probably work


    - Austin Feng

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  14. College applications (and the admissions decisions) have been causing me most of my stress, though regular schoolwork still plays a pretty big part in it as well.

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  15. Homework, Schoolwork, grades.

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  16. Things that cause me stress are homework, not having enough sleep during the week, grades, and studying for quizzes or tests

    -Keyan Javadi

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  17. probably homework and studying for insane tests

    Ann Chen

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  18. School stresses me out like studying for tests and homework.

    -wendy sun

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  19. School work, college apps., lack of sleep, grades, big test and projects

    David Sureff

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  20. School, parents, and homework stress me out the most. With edline my parents know my grades and if i do not have the right grade, they stress me out more with trying to get better grades.
    -Stefan Oganesoff

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  21. School and homwork cause most of my stress

    Jason Cameron

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  22. Tests, quizzes, parents, and my sister all cause me a great deal of stress.

    Dane Searles

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  23. Homework, tests, and pressure cause me stress.

    -Zoe Junghans

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  24. School Work causes me the most stress.

    Mitchell Myers

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  25. things that cause me stress is school

    Harris Tsinas

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  26. school mostly and waking up early


    Brian fantozzi

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  27. School work and college apps cause most of my stress

    Steven Rubin

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  28. the main cause of stress for me is school work and siblings
    kayla steinberg

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  29. school work like making up homework the minute before class and realizing i have a test in my next class that day
    --darian parsadoust

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  30. Most stress comes from school work or parents grilling me about my school work.

    Andy Pham

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  31. stress hits:
    school
    parents, parents about grades
    grades, test/quizes
    waking up a little to early
    older brother
    sometimes the lack of sleep
    ~Nancy Cheng

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  32. ummm hw, parents, and sleep



    -Erin White

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  33. school and homework and parents cause most of my stress

    nick wise

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  34. school causes most stress

    shayan

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  35. what cause me the most stress is when i do not space out my work and try to do all of it in one night.

    Mack Hollins

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  36. My biggest stressor is getting big assignments in school, exams and applying to college.

    -Ben Zacks

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  37. Stress for me is mostly school and exams
    Jack Connelly

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  38. The thing that causes the most stress in my life is school work and struggling to get long term assignments done before their deadline.

    Max Langworthy

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  39. I stress the most about school and getting good grades
    -Denell Hammond

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  40. Parents & Schoolwork
    -Sayema Tareq

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  41. One of the biggest factors of stress in my life is definitely school, the amount of hw teachers give you, how I always wait to the last moment to do any assignment and i guess some of my romantic relationship.

    JANSEN VERA

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