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dprof (59)in STEEM FOR BETTERLIFE • 2 months ago (edited)

What Is Stress?

Stress can simply be said to be an emotional, mental, or physical response to stimulus, and it is a result of overworking, overstudying, etc.

In your country, do people consider hard work as stress? Does stress kill? ?

My country is Nigeria. In Nigeria, hard work is most of what we do in order to earn a living, so itcan be stressful, like overworking in order to cover up or in order to meet up with the deadline. In some villages in Nigeria that are not well developed, people are engaging in hard work like

Carpentry work
Farming
Constructions, etc.

In most villages in Nigeria, all these hard works are mostly carried out using manpower because of a lack of or inadequate machinery to carry out those works, so manpower is being substituted, which is very stressful.

Have you ever felt so stressed before that you felt your head would fall off? Share your experience with stress, either academically or business-wise.

Yes, I have experienced stress before, both in the workplace and academically. I am a graphic designer, so there was a particular program that, after designing it, I took to a particular state called Aba in Nigeria to carry out the printing, and that was my first time going to Aba. I was really tired from the trekking and carrying of papers on my head from the place of buying the paper to the printing press. Before I would go back to my state that day, it was already 12 o'clock midnight, and I even slept at the bus stop. I was really weak and tired until I got used to it.

Another one is academically; my year one was not something to write off. I am the class rep; coupled with my studentship and my responsibility as a class representative, it was really stressful for me. I always run around the campuses in order to meet up with lectures, lecturers, and the students' demands, like sorting out their issues. I had low blood pressure twice in my year due to overstress. I thank God that I survived it. Another academic stress was during our microteaching presentation, it was really stressful for me in terms of designing the flex, constructingthe instructional package, and other things. I thank God it was successful at last.

Does stress affect the brain? What signs does your body give you when you're stressed?

Stress really affects the brain, because every body movemenmy firstt is attached to your brain. I had too much of a headache; my brain and my eye werepresentation; turning on me.

What do you do when you're stressed? Share your remedy.

Whenever I am stressed, I look for a very calm place and associate with friends in order to calm myself and to relieve myself, or I go back to my house and take a shower and then sleep, or I look for a small shield to relax myself. But drinking a chill water is always the best option and hanging out with a friend.