Stress
#FoodForThought
❓1. What comes to mind when you hear the word “stress”?
❓2. What are the causes of stress? What are five things that cause extreme stress?
❓3. Talk about the most stressful day that you have ever had. How did you handle that?
❓4. What are some jobs that cause a lot deal of stress? Would you take those jobs if you were paid a high salary?
❓5. What are the consequences of having stress?
❓6. Do you think that being single is less stressful than being married?
#Repository
🌀Anxiety: an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in the future:
Children normally feel a lot of anxiety about their first day at school.
🌀Cold sweat: a state of uncontrollable anxiety and fear:
I break out in a cold sweat just thinking about public speaking.
🌀Concern: a feeling of worry or nervousness, or something that worries you: Concern for the safety of the two missing teenagers is growing:
There's a lot of public concern over dangerous toxins recently found in food.
🌀Pressure: a difficult situation that makes you feel worried or unhappy:
She's got a lot of pressure on her at work just now.
🌀Suspense: the feeling of excitement or anxiety that you have when you are waiting for something to happen and are uncertain about what it is going to be:
She kept him in suspense for several days before she said that she would marry him.
🌀Tension: a feeling of nervousness before an important or difficult event:
You could feel the tension in the room as we waited for our exam results.
#Juxtapositions 1/3
❇️Stress:
🔰Adjectives:
Considerable, extreme, great, high, incredible, intense, severe, excessive, undue, added, greater, heightened, increased, low, daily, emotional, mental, psychological, social, occupational, work-related, family, environmental, economic, financial
🔅e.g.:
Separation is a time of high emotional stress.
The program helps workers with work-related and family stress.
Different organisms react differently to environmental stress.
The high mortgage payments put them under severe financial stress.
🔰Verbs:
—- + Stress
Cause, create, avoid, remove, add to, increase, alleviate, decrease, ease, lessen, minimize, reduce, relieve, be under, endure, experience, have, suffer, suffer from, undergo, cope with, handle, manage, stand, take
Stress + ——
Bring something about, bring something on, cause something, trigger something
🔅e.g.:
A divorce causes children great emotional stress.
There are many things an employer can do to ease employees' stress.
He's been under a lot of stress lately.
He's had to give up his job as leader of the project—he just couldn't take the stress.
🔰Nouns:
Level, control, management, response, hormone, reduction, relief
🔅e.g.:
Staff are encouraged to go on stress-management courses.
The release of the stress hormone cortisol is part of the human stress response.
🔰Preposition:
Under
🔅e.g.:
He broke under stress and had to leave.
🔰Phrases:
A source of stress, a symptom of stress
🔅e.g.:
An overcrowded workplace can be a major source of stress.
Tiredness is one of the most common symptoms of stress.
#Juxtapositions 2/3
❇️Stressed:
🔰Verbs:
Be, feel, look, seem, sound, become, get, make somebody
🔅e.g.:
She's just making herself more stressed.
🔰Adverbs:
Extremely, fairly, very, completely, totally, overly, a little, slightly, clearly, obviously
🔅e.g.:
I was just totally stressed out and afraid I couldn't continue.
She felt overly stressed and needed to calm down.
🔰Preposition:
About, over
🔅e.g.:
He's stressed out about money.
#Juxtapositions 3/3
❇️Stressful:
🔰Verbs:
Be, prove, sound, become, get, find something
🔅e.g.:
My job's getting more and more stressful.
I find these meetings rather stressful.
🔰Adverbs:
Extremely, fairly, very, highly, a little, slightly, emotionally
🔅e.g.:
It was an emotionally stressful time for him.
🔰Nouns:
Condition, environment, event, lifestyle, situation
🔅e.g.:
Leading a stressful life hinders our efficiency and lessens our ability to live a healthy and happy life.