People of all ages experience stress at varying levels and degrees. A five-year-old child can encounter stress when he fails to pile up five blocks as planned. A teenager feels stressed when he or she is unable to get good marks a certain quiz in school. A college student gets depressed when she or she fails to get on his or her professor’s good side. An adult feels burned out and tired when his or her boss constantly criticizes his or her performance at the particular project.

While the above examples of stress are not in the same level when you put them together, to the people who are experiencing them, they might already be carrying the same weight. This is what stress management seminars will help us realize. That though stressors differ among people and among situations, the extent and gravity of their effects depend on how people respond to them.

Therefore, a five-year-old’s response to the blocks could be in the same degree as the adult’s response to his or her superior’s comments. Though the stress happened people of different orientations and ages, how they reacted to them can be considered in a similar level. [Read more...]