Kelly Mcgonigal's 'How To Make Stress Your Friend'

Headaches. Low energy. Upset stomach. Sleepless nights. These are just some of the countless side effects of stress. However, Dr. Kelly McGonigal believes otherwise. In her TED Talk “How to make stress your friend,” she describes how stress can be used in a reverse way contradictory to popular beliefs. Dr. McGonigal is convinced that stress has received a completely negative attitude, which she deems as wrong. She believes that stress can be manipulated to create positive effects. Dr. Kelly McGonigal’s, “How to make stress your friend,” TED Talk is a rhetorical success because it effectively convinces those who are looking for help with dealing with stress and forward thinking scholars who attend the TED Talks. She achieves this success by

Discuss some of the facts and evidence that were brought up in the speech to support the speaker’s statements (main points). 30,000 adults were monitored in the United States for eight years. These adults were ask certain questions which corresponded to their views about the effects of stress. Public death records were search eight years later to make notations of those who had past. There was a 43% increase in those who had undergone a great amount of stress the previous year. This 43% only applied to participants who believed that stress negatively affected their life. Participants who were under great amounts of stress yet believed it was not detrimental to health had no immediate risk of dying. These participants were also not more inclined to die.

I agree with Kelly McGonigal, not because whatever she said, is true about stress, but I feel that situation in my life. As she said that stress can be the healthier and gives you joy and meaning of a life. For example, I am not sure that this has been with me since I born, but I need stress in order to survive, and studying well because if I don’t have stress than I feel like helpless, or shiftless. Likewise, people need to distinguish between the good and bad stress before looking the result of it. Similarly, this topic is like “ see and think always right for better opportunities and for being a better

Our book describes stress as “any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and tax one’s coping ability” (Weiten, 2014). Stress is not necessarily a traumatic, life destroying event. It can be as simple a small change in one’s daily schedule. People will have multiple stresses throughout their lifetime. Some will be little and daily, but overtime these add up and can affect you in many ways. Stress can be positive or negative and can take many forms; a few being frustration, internal conflict, change, and pressure. All of which make almost a daily appearance in my life (Weiten, 2014).

A paper due, bills to pay, kids are screaming, a test in every class, going through a divorce, meetings to attend and going to soccer practice after school. These are just a few everyday aspects of life. Everyone is busy in today’s multitasking world. However, it is important to stop and think, even on the most hectic days. People were definitely not as stressed in past years. Stress is more prevalent now than ever. To show this, the definition of stress will first be shown, which will have research on internal and external issues related to it, and then the time lapse in mental health will be presented, along with long-term health effects that stress can cause and finally how stress can be managed.

This scholarly paper is about stress, one of the social determinants of health, and how stress occurs and how it influences the health and wellbeing of an individual. Stress affects the mental and psychological health of a person, which reflects in their thoughts and emotions, ultimately, making them think or act in a different way than normal. This abnormal behaviour could potentially lead to further severe mental damage. Stress also affects a person’s family and people near them, resulting in separation or loss of friendship, marriage and other social bonds with communities. The paper also endeavours to look into some of the strategies to overcome stress and the ways to fit into a healthy and happy life

Kelly McGonigal's stress discussion caused me to view stress in a positive which I never that was possible since stress is always viewed negatively. Countless times, I have read or heard how horrible stress is for your body, but who would have thought that you can trick your body into believing that stress is a good experience. Kelly McGonigal picks apart how stress can affected the body and heart in a good way. The adrenaline that causes the heart to pound from stress is actually a way the body starts to prepare to conquer stress. Oxytocin is your body's way of protecting itself from stress; a simple stress hormone that helps strengthen the heart for the next stressful experience. However, I know some extremely social individuals that bottle

Stress is a common health issue for the body and mind, but it can be managed if not avoid.

Stress is a significant issue, as how we deal with stress determines how our lives are. In order to reach a solution of how to avoid stress, we must first understand the causes of it. All stress originates from us as human beings wanting to be perfect, being afraid of the unknown, and loathing

Chapter Five focused on the idea of social stress and health. Stress is defined as a physiological and emotional response to some stimulus, called a stressor. Stressors can be further divided into acute, including life events such as divorce or job loss, or chronic, meaning they persist over time, such as poverty. Physiologically, stress causes increased blood pressure, respiratory rate, heart rate, and glucose breakdown; while nonessential functions, such as digestion and reproductive processes, are stalled. I thought that the documentary, “Stress: The Portrait of a Killer,” posed an incredibly interesting point—that human stress levels are affected just as strongly as those of our counterparts in the animal kingdom by hierarchal organization

The documentary “stress silent killer” was not only eye opening, but also enhanced the overall learning experience. As humans, we have a natural response to stress, and we cannot locate the off switch in regards to turning off the stress. Most often, we stress for no actual psychological purpose and we are doing so in a relentless manner. After time goes on the stress response turns out to be more impeding than the stressor itself.

“Stress in health and disease is medical, sociologically and philosophically the most meaningful subject for humanity that I can think of.” (Hans H. Selye, MD, 1982)

Stresses can result from the environment, psychological, or social situations (external) or from illness, or from a medical procedure (internal). The "fight or flight" response, which is a complex reaction of neurologic and endocrinologic systems can be initiated by stress . (1)

Stress is a very popular concept about which there is still a lot of controversy. '' Stress as an adaptive response, moderated by individual differences, that is a consequence of any action, situation, or event that places special demands on a person '' (Ivancevich, page 214). We say that a person is subjected to a stress situation when he has to face environmental demands that exceed his resources, so that the subject perceives that he cannot give them an effective response, which causes an increase in the activation of the organism. However, stress is not always a bad thing, since in many cases the stress response puts a number of exceptional resources at the disposal of the person, fostering a better perception of the situation, a better search for solutions and a better selection of answers to deal with the situation that has caused it.

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