Summary: Stress

Every person can experience stressful situations in lifetime and feel stress in various situations. For every person stress is different but coping with it is almost the same. People use some kind of techniques that can be helpful but as people are different the ways of coping with stress are varying.

Techniques of reducing stress are common and uncommon. Common techniques are going for a walk, listening to the music, laying in bed or on the beach and listening or watching waves, music listening. These ways do not require much energy or thinking. They are more relied on time. Uncommon techniques are cooking, domestic tasks, gardening, writing, various sports and yoga. These kinds of relaxing require more energy. Activities replace bad minds and a person thinks only about a current task.

All techniques are useful and help to cope with stress but the most important thing is a person. Individual choice and personality type can help to find the most relaxing activity and reduce stress by makeup pleasant activities.



According to handout.

Short talk: Happy and Unhappy Countries

For the past decade social scientists and pollsters have given hundreds of thousands questionnaires for people around the globe to find out which country is happiest.

Denmark:

• happiest place on Earth
• life expectancy:
• 81,2 for women
• 77,05 for men
• they pay the highest taxes, but government cover all health and education charges, spends more on children and elders.
• people love their life, enjoy jobs.
• people have nice things, but shopping is not priority.
• the happier country is the more trustful people are.
• 92 % belong for social clubs.

Lithuania:

• 63rd place in ranking of happiest countries.
• people have quite poor self-esteem
• maybe money could bring happiness

Zimbabwe:

• last in ranking
• life expectancy:
• 34 for women
• 37 for men
• reasons can be:
• lack of education
• illnesses
• pressure of another countries because of money and goods which can be found in Zimbabwe

Money can not make people to be happy. When people will start changing their  attitudes, when they will start think about others as about themselves, then something they could change.

Short talk: Stress test

Overall score: Measure overall emotional well - being.

• 2,96 in range 1-5.
• higher score is well adjusted.
• my score indicates that I am severally stressed and benefit from intensive help [especially if score is over 2,99]

Quality of life score: Measure how happy or satisfied person is in his life including over-all self-esteem, health, friends and family, work, school.

• 2,8 in range 1-5.
• extremely stressed

Symptom distress score: Symptoms of depression, anxiety, hostility.

• 2,67 in range 1-5
• extremely stressed

Level of functioning: How well person is able to get along in the community.

• 3,5 in range 1-5.
• very stressed.

Stress level is similar to those who benefited from psychological care.

Test: http://stresstest.net/