Stress Case

Stress

Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is such a common place that it has become a way of life. Stress isn't always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. But when you're constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price. You can protect yourself by recognizing the signs and symptoms of stress and taking steps to reduce its harmful effects. Stress is simply a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium. In other words, it's an omnipresent part of life. A stressful event can trigger the "fight-or-flight" response, causing hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol to surge through the body. A little bit of stress, known as "acute stress," can be exciting--it keeps us active and alert. But long-term, or "chronic stress," can have detrimental effects on health. You may not be able to control the stressors in your world, but you can alter your reaction to them.

I, myself is forever suffering from stress, stress has become part of my daily lifestyle. I've been dealing with stress since I had my first born and now after 2004 until now 213 I have the total of four children. Not that I am saying my children are the reason but my hectic unorganized schedule, they have a big part of it. Every day is a routine in my house for years now and I have been overwhelmed and frustrated by it.

Every day we wake up my partner and I to get the girls ready for school and get ourselves ready for school and work. After I finish school, I then have to head to work until 7pm to then come home to cook and pick up all the mess the girls and our dog cupcake has made. Meanwhile, my partner is bathing the girls and helping them with their homework. By 8:30 or 9 o'clock is that everyone in the house sits down to eat dinner. After we eat dinner dishes is washed and they sit and talk or watch television and I go to my room to do homework until 12 or 1 o'clock. This is my routine every single day. On weekends when you think that you are able to rest and wake up late, the girls are so used to the schedule of being up early that they up real early making all types of mess and noises that there is no way on earth that we can keep sleeping. Not to mention my puppy not being potty trained so I'm constantly cleaning up pee and poo every hour of every day. Saturdays I save all the energy for Sunday because is the day that I get up to wash all four girls' hair and also brush them. Meanwhile I am washing clothes and folding them (all six of us) and putting them where they belong. This is an everyday thing, there is no me time, there is no I'm going out to get some fresh air and be back later because by the time I come back the house that I just left organized and impeccable end ups being worse than a jungle.

The way I cope with stress is more frustrating than everything, because I picked up bad habits thinking that it would help me ease the stress and put me at ease but all it has done is make me worse. I smoke at least 7 cigarettes a day trying to calm my nerves down and I'm constantly on the move picking and organizing to the perfection because it's a part of me. I'm constantly fidgeting and just can't stay still because my body is not use to resting. I'm always mad and slamming stuff because I feel like people in my house think I'm a slave and instead of doing or putting the things back like they were they just toss them and wait for me to do the work again. I'm always cranky and tired and look like I'm unhappy but it's just that I feel like I have too much in my plate. I have to keep in order the life of myself and 6 others including my mother. By the time I go to bed I'm tired as hell and don't want no one to disturb me.

They say stress can be good because it motivates