Friday, November 18, 2011


All my life I have not been one to stress anything and experience very little stress as I am a very chill and relaxed guy. I have had very few instances in college of me being stressed and none that I can remember in high school, and in all of my life I have never experienced a headache. I originally thought that topic of Stress Management was really useless to me and couldn't help at all and I came to the realization that it couldn't hurt as my whole blog post managed to just get deleted.
I used A Day At A Time and the Stress Diagram which were difficult because I didn't have much to use with them because of my lack of stress. For the A Day At a Time, for three days, I made a list at the end of each day of what stressed me during the day and as I went back to the list I crossed off what was no longer relevant. The list allowed me to realize what caused me the very little bit of stress I experienced and what I may or may not have had difficulty dealing with. My only problem with the strategy is that it doesn't go past the stage of just acknowledging what causes the user's stress.
For the Stress Diagram I made a list of my 'stressors' and from the
list of 3 to 5 'stressors', I went ahead and made a pie graph out of them, with the size of each secti
on proportional to the amount of stress that the 'stressor' is responsible for. I had the same problem with this strategy as I did with A Day At A Time it didn't really go past just acknowledgement; yes it may open my eyes but the question is, will it get me to move.
The strategies were ok but not too great for me. Someone who experienced a significant amount of stress may like one, or both of these strategies and may be able to fuse it with another strategy to become even more accomplished with less of the stress.

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