a. What are the major causes of stress in your life? What coping strategies do you use, and what could you do to deal with stress more effectively?
Major causes of stress in my life would be due to sports. Sports cause me to have physical stress and wear me down. Soccer is my main sport. I may be the goalie in soccer, but I do run my fair share in a game. Another stressful part of soccer would be the fact that I am a goalie. I can't have a real impact on the offensive side of the game because I am always defending my goal. This frustrates me at times when my team is struggling to score and I can't help them out because its nearly impossible to do without protecting our goal which is my job. Soccer goalie is also stressful in the sense that I am supposed to be a vocal leader on the field since I have the best view of the entire field. So I am consistently screaming to people and giving them directions which believe it or not takes a huge toll on your body stressfully and physically. The strategies I use at times is I just let the team play and don't say anything because we do have a coach that does essentially the same things I do just off of the field and probably better. In order to help myself more, I think I could just let the game play and not get upset if the offense can't pull itself together. It may be painful to watch but as long as I am doing my part, I can't do much more.
b. Examine your film notes and homework notes. After watching the film and reading the article about stress, explain why stress is so dangerous to your health in a variety of ways. Why do you think America leads the world in stress-related diseases?
Stress is very dangerous to ones health. Stress can shut down the immune system mess with chromosomes in your body causing you to age faster. Americans lead the world in stress-related diseases because of how hard we work. I feel like we work much harder then the rest of the world and this may be due to such a terrible economy as of now. I believe that "The American Dream" may also have something to do with the stress; everybody wants to obtain this "American Dream" and for most people I feel that people need to work very hard to get to where they want to be.
