Today, in my psychology class, we were given a sheet that had a list of stressful events and we were to select the ones we had experienced in the last 12 months. I got highest in my class of above an 80% chance of getting a life threatening illness due to stress. Everyone laughed. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, in health class we were watching a documentary about anxiety. My teacher asked if any of us often feel anxious. I was too anxious to raise my hand, and went into a minor panic attack. FML
Today, I was in my psychology class taking the hardest test ever. After I spent most of the period trying to fill in the few answers that I knew, I looked up to see everyone with their notebooks on their desks. It was an open-note test. FML
Today, I was talking about phobias and anxiety disorders in psychology class. I nearly had a panic attack because I was worried that someone might realize I suffer from them. FML
Today, in my psychology class, the professor had us write down our name and birthday on one side of the paper and on the other side put down a mental disorder we would like to know more about. I was going to write 'Social anxiety disorder' but I was too worried about what people would think. FML
Today, I had an extreme panic attack in the middle of class. I interrupted another person's presentation, burst into tears, and ran out of class whilst everyone looked at me. FML
Today, I found out that I'm failing this semester because I've missed too many classes. I've missed the classes because I've been having panic attacks, a symptom of my anxiety disorder. I got the anxiety disorder because I was so afraid of failing school. FML
Today, I discovered that a high enough stress level can cause the same symptoms as the flu. So whenever things are quite awful at work, I get the added bonus of feeling like I’m coming down with something really nasty. FML
Today, our boss nicely asked if we were stressed. Before I could answer in the affirmative and ask for help, my colleague replied, “Stress is for the weak!” She was serious. FML
Today, the only part of my Psychology final that I was 100% confident in was my name. FML
Today, my doctor asked if I had any "unusual stress." I laughed and said, "I’ve been crying in the shower, does that count?" He paused, looked at me seriously, and said, "Yes. Yes, it does." FML
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i_t_s_m_e 0
Do you know how curious I am now? As I too am from Coventry and did this experiment in my psychology class today. I wonder if it was the same class...? Interesting. But if it was the same class, you'll know that one of the main flaws if this experiment is that it fails to take individual differences into account. Plus, it ignores the good things in people's lives, that help to counter balance stress. So really, you don't need to worry about it at all!
chasin_butterfli 0
Time for a vacation?
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DemonChicken 0
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Crissie_fml 0
Since you were in psychology class you should have also learned that it is always nature and nurture, never just one or the other. Excluding depression, all of the stress in the world won't cause a disorder psychologically unless you are already predisposed biologically.
lil_miss_shorty 2
Bah we took that test too in my psych class. It means nothing really :P I think I turned out to have a Type C personality, if that makes you feel any better. (For those who don't take psychology, type C personalitites are the most likely to develop cancer. Don't quite know how that works but hey I'm just going with the research here lol.)
i_t_s_m_e 0
biology and psychology are not independent; each represents the functioning of a super system with components that can no longer be thought of as separate or autonomous mechanisms. The past quarter century of scientific inquiry has supplanted the traditional Western medical view of a split between body and mind with a truer, more unitary perspective. Our mind and body are one and our physiology, including our immune system, is directly affected by our emotions. Thus the repression of emotions threatens not only our psychological health but also our physical well-being. It does so by suppressing our immune response. In turn, immune suppression leaves us susceptible to bacterial or viral invaders, or to malignant changes from within. I copied this from a website. Here's the full link if you want it :) http://www.alive.com/3103a6a2.php?subject_bread_cramb=116
spez86 0
there trying to catagorize us don't let them ((.))((.)) ^ {____}. there watching brain washing aaahhhhhhh
Incubuss 0
I did this in my Psychology class as well. Someone got a similar score to that and everyone laughed in ours because half of the studies don't truly reflect real life. Especially the one you're talking about. Studies into stress are almost all correlational so we can't establish cause and effect, which means we don't know whether the stressful situations are what actually cause the illnesses. Get a sense of ******* humour.
sportsnut 0
i must say, you probably brought on most of the stress by yourself especially if you are getting stressed out about that. I would laugh too and it certainly would not be at you, i just wouldn't care enough about your life to make it be about you. Its a fun exercise as it is
maa_rico 4
did you just type the word bitch? omg u r getting worst
epictrollathon 0
Hey, who doesn't get a good laugh from a life threatening illness? Buck up; you're not dead yet!
Compass 0
They're all douches. They're contributing to your death, you know.
ShadowzI 0
that happen to me till. I scored 660 points for stress, I noticed the second highest was a bout 220. everyone laughed.
whiteasavampire8 0
same thing happened to me today in health class. except no one laughed. they all just stared at me like I was some kind of freak:(