Battling with stress

Life is full of many hassles and fustrations that can effect the way you think or act, this is called stress. Stress is a defensive mecahnism by your body that releases hormones when you feel threatened. Work, school, and money are just a few ways that can cause our bodies to stress. Our muscles become tense, blood pressure rises, our heart beats faster, and our breathing becomes heavy. In turn these symptoms can makes us stronger and are important to our flee or fight responses. Besides physical symptoms, being stressed also releases many mental symptoms, like the inablility to concentrate, loss of memory, anxiesty, or poor judgement. School work is a major cause for stress in college students. Ive experienced it myself, sometimes I feel so overwelmed with work, that it causes me to feel some symptoms of being stressed. Alot of times I find it very hard to concentrate when I have a large workload to do. Stress is normal for people to experience, in fact most of you probably have some sort of stress right now. But sometimes stress becomes so powerful that it has been known to lead to suicides amoung many college students. I read about a Cornell student who jumped off a bridge because he was so stressed out about finals. You can read the article hear: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/students-found-dead-cornell-university-month-suicide/story?id=10108672
That article was very sad to read. I dont even want to think about what could of been going through these peoples minds for them to want to take their own lives. Almost 90% of all suicides deal with the victim being stressed out and depressed. 1/12 people try to commit suicide each year, most of them are caused by the person being to stressed out to function. Over coming your stress is all about overcoming your thought process. You have to take charge of your emotions and schedule, admitting that your stressed is one of the best things you can do to become non stressed. It very important to set some time aside for relaxtation.