Life Stressors
Life stressors screening

Is stress a medical diagnosis? Yes, it is. Do you have stress? If you are over-stressed, your mind and body will give you warning signs. Take this simple test to see if you have symptoms of too much stress: 1.Do you feel like you are not yourself? 2.Do you feel overwhelmed? 3.Do you feel unable to cope with the workload that you are usually able to handle? 4.Do you often feel anxious, angry, irritable or tense? 5.Do you get headaches or stiffness/tension in your muscles, jaw or back? 6.Do you feel unable to concentrate or to remember things as well? 7.Do you frequently have upset stomach, skin rashes, racing heartbeat, or sweaty palms? 8.Are you more tired or have a lower energy level than usual? 9.Do you lack interest in things that normally used to interest you? 10.Do you have trouble sleeping? 11.Are you using alcohol or drugs to escape problems you may have? If you answered yes to more than one of these questions, you may be feeling signs of stress overload. When you have stress overload, you may become forgetful or have difficulty concentrating. The quality of your work may decline and you may feel alone or isolated from the people around you. Stress: I have done considerable research on this topic. I have elaborated this topic in 50 different questions and answers. What do you know about stress? Are you experiencing any life stressors? What life stressors are you experiencing? What life stressors can a human being experience? What types of stressors have you faced up to now? What types of stressors do you think others have faced? How many life stressors do you know? How have you managed each life stressor at various points? Do you feel upset about anything? If yes, you are having stress. Does stress affect your everyday life and relationships with people? Is this a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or long-term stressor? Is this a mild, moderate, severe, extreme, or catastrophic stressor? Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day? Do you feel like everything around you moves too slow? Do your days seem long and boring? When you relax do you feel like you should be doing something? When you relax do you think about work or problems? Is it a struggle to go to work each morning? Ever have difficulty sleeping? Do you feel like people take advantage of you? Do you feel like everything around you moves too fast? If you are doing something important do you miss meals? Did you know that 90% of doctor visits are for stress related symptoms? What is stress anyway? Do you know? Do you find yourself becoming easily confused? Have you lost your physical fitness? Is it common for you to lose your temper? Are you drinking too much alcohol? Do you find yourself finishing other peoples sentences? Do you get frequent aches and pains in the neck and shoulders? Are you easily depressed? Do you feel like something is missing in your life? Do you bite your nails? Do you sometimes feel unhappy even when your life is ok? Do you sometimes feel like you'd like to hit someone? Do you get blinding headaches for no apparent reason? Do you get angry frequently? Is it sometimes difficult to make decisions? Are avoiding contact with people as much as possible? Is it difficult to make and keep friends? Are you suffering from frequent indigestion? Are you finding that you are breathing fast? Are getting coughs, colds and other minor infections? Do you have dreams that you know will never come true? Do you have sexual problems that you never used to have? Are you secretive? Are your muscles frequently feeling tight and tense? Do you wake up from sleep and still feel tired? Are you putting things off until the last possible moment? Did you know that the emotional and physical responses you have to stress are set in motion by a series of chemical releases and reactions? What do you know about various life stressors? What should you know about various life stressors? How do you screen a person for past, present, and future life stressors in his or her life? Do you have any past or acquired harms/stressors? Do you have any stressors at this point? Do you have any concerns or stressors relevant to the future? What are the details of your past stressors or acquired harms, existing stressors, and future stressors? What best describes past, present, and future life stressors in your life? How do sustained life stressors progress? Stress, anxiety, depression, and other medical conditions. How should you screen a person for past, present, or future life stressors in his or her life? You will learn the answer to this question later. You need to first learn answers to basic questions relevant to the topic. Life stressors can be past, present, or future life stressors. A competent counselor can be helpful. An incompetent counselor can be harmful. Counseling is helpful in stress management under supervision of a competent medical doctor. Because there are so many stressors, one counseling session is not enough. A medical doctor can do counseling.

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What are examples of past, present, and future life stressors? Past stressors or acquired harms. Existing stressors. Future stressors. Past stressors or acquired harms. What best describes your situation? Did you face any of the following in the past year? Did you face any of the following in the past 10 years? Did you face any of the following from the time of your birth or from awareness of this world unto now? Did you experience any one of these that has troubled you since the day you were born? Did you face any of the following in the past 30 years? ___ Yes ___ No Assault ___ Yes ___ No Hitting ___ Yes ___ No Kicking ___ Yes ___ No Biting ___ Yes ___ No Shoving ___ Yes ___ No Restraining ___ Yes ___ No Slapping ___ Yes ___ No Throwing objects ___ Yes ___ No Stalking ___ Yes ___ No Punching ___ Yes ___ No Choking ___ Yes ___ No Pushing ___ Yes ___ No Burning ___ Yes ___ No Being a victim denied medical care ___ Yes ___ No Sleep deprivation ___ Yes ___ No Being a victim forced into drug/alcohol use ___ Yes ___ No Being restrained from calling or communicating with a brother, sister, father, or mother. ___ Yes ___ No Being restrained from calling or communicating with a specific person. Who did you try to call or communicate with? Who tried to restrain you? ___ Yes ___ No Being pointed at with a sharp object, gun, weapon, utensil, or other object with intent to harm or intimidate. ___ Yes ___ No Suffering any word or gesture that inflicted intentional emotional distress. ___ Yes ___ No Any inappropriate touch by others that made you feel bad. ___ Yes ___ No Any situation that made you feel bad. ___ Yes ___ No Other types of contact or manipulation that resulted in physical or psychological injury/harms. ___ Yes ___ No Rape, forced sexual activity, intimidated, tricked, or drugged to have sex. ___ Yes ___ No Maliciously impregnated. ___ Yes ___ No Intimidated. ___ Yes ___ No Being hit with an object. ___ Yes ___ No Being forced to persuade a victim to commit activities uncomfortable or distressful. ___ Yes ___ No Other (any activity that makes you feel distressed) ___ Yes ___ No Deprivation of any right. ___ Yes ___ No Verbal abuse ___ Yes ___ No Accidents. ___ Yes ___ No Any type of trauma. ___ Yes ___ No Any type of harm. Building collapse. ___ Yes ___ No Child abuse or captivity. ___ Yes ___ No Childbirth. ___ Yes ___ No Death of a loved one. ___ Yes ___ No Domestic violence. ___ Yes ___ No Fall. ___ Yes ___ No Fire. ___ Yes ___ No Genocide. ___ Yes ___ No Natural disaster (hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis). ___ Yes ___ No Neglect of a child leading to a serious harms. ___ Yes ___ No Nutritional deficiency. ___ Yes ___ No Road traffic crash. ___ Yes ___ No Rape. ___ Yes ___ No Shooting. ___ Yes ___ No Torture. If yes, what are the details? ______________________________ If any of the above describes your situation, what are the details of the incident/incidents? ______________________________ If any other traumatic, stressful, harmful, or horrifying event, give more details. ______________________________ What were the day, date, time, location, circumstances, and persons involved in any of these occurrences? ______________________________ How old were you at that point? ______________________________ How old were the others? ______________________________ What exactly happened on the day, date, time, and location? ______________________________ If there was any other situation, what are the details? ______________________________ How often has this been happening? ______________________________ ______________________________ If yes, what are the details? If any of the above describes your situation, what are the details of the incident/incidents? ______________________________ If any other traumatic, stressful, harmful, or horrifying event, give more details. ______________________________ What were the day, date, time, location, circumstances, and persons involved in any of these occurrences? ______________________________ How old were you at that point? ______________________________ How old were the others? ______________________________ What exactly happened on the day, date, time, and location? ______________________________ Has there ever been a time in the past when you were suicidal? ______________________________ If there was any other situation, what are the details? ______________________________ How often has this been happening? ______________________________ Every day in a year. Every month in a year. Once in a year. Only on the mentioned day, date and location. Never. Are you living alone or is someone else in the household? ______________________________ Who all are in your household? ______________________________ How long have you lived alone? ______________________________ How long have you lived with a person of the opposite gender not related to you by birth or in the family? ______________________________ How long have you lived together at a specific location in the same bedroom? More than 10 years. 5-10 years. 1-5 years. Less than a year. Less than a month. A few hours. ______________________________ If there is a failure to provide necessities, the state has to provide basic survival necessities. If the state provided necessities and any individual or individuals are deprived the rights, it is a criminal offense. What individual deprived you of your rights? ______________________________ How did he or she deprive you of your rights? ______________________________ Here are various scenarios. There is no food for you while the state has issued food for the person. You cannot eat at the same table or location while the person is in the same household. If there is emotional neglect or not having intercourse between male and female spouses, that is a violation of fidelity and conjugal rights. In one scenario, a fraudulently placed administration involved in various harms and crimes creates lies under the pretext of domestic violence to harm the opposition. There was no domestic violence. This is a criminal conspiracy/conspiracies. Did you face any emergency from your birth until now? ______________________________ How are you feeling today? ______________________________ Angry (Agitated, Irritated, Resentful, Miffed, Upset, Mad, Furious, Raging) Excited (Ecstatic, Energetic, Aroused, Bouncy, Nervous, pericy, Antsy) Happy (Fulfilled, Contented, Glad, Complete, Satisfied, Optimistic, Pleased) Loving (Intimate, Love, Warm-Hearted, Tender, Sympathetic, Touched, Kind, Soft) Sad (Down, Blue, Mopey, Grieved, Dejected, Depressed, Heartbroken) Scared (Tense, Nervous, Ancious, Jittery, Frightened, Panic-Stricken, Terrified) Surprised (Surprise Amazement, surprise, astonishment)

Have they harmed? What is the complaint? What do you do if anyone has harmed you or others? You file a complaint. You ask for solutions and remedies. You make sure this is not repeated. Depending on the harms, you seek punitive and pecuniary damages. You advise them to upgrade their required skills and knowledge to prevent such harms.

Existing stressors. Any event in life that a person finds threatening, difficult to cope with or causes excess pressure can be a potential cause of stress. 1. External Stressors a) Major Life Events Adults Types of stressors Life event Death of a spouse Emergency complaint. Non-emergency complaint. Complaint against a person. Complaint against a product. Complaint against a service. Complaint against a thing. Complaint with details of relevant harms. Marital separation Imprisonment Death of a close family member Personal injury or illness Relationship issues Dismissal from work Marital reconciliation Retirement Change in health of family member Pregnancy Sexual difficulties Gain a new family member Begin or end school Business readjustment Death of a close friend Change to different line of work Change in frequency of arguments Change in responsibilities at work Child leaving home Change in living conditions Change in working hours or conditions Change in residence Change in schools Change in recreation Change in mosque/church/etc activities Change in social activities Change in sleeping habits Change in number of family reunions Change in eating habits Outstanding personal achievement Revision of personal habits Spouse starts or stops work Survival Needs(Issues) Trouble with in-laws Trouble with boss Vacation Non-adults Life Event Life Death of parent Unplanned pregnancy/abortion Relationship Issues Quarreling Parents Acquiring a visible deformity Fathering a child Jail sentence of parent for over one year Parental Separation Death of a brother or sister Change in acceptance by peers Unplanned pregnancy of sister Discovery of being an adopted child Death of a close friend Emotional blackmail Intimidation Having a visible congenital deformity Living With Stepparents Serious illness requiring hospitalization Teen Stress at Home Lingers in School Failure of a grade in school Not making an extracurricular activity Hospitalization of a parent Jail sentence of parent for over 30 days Breaking up with boyfriend or girlfriend Beginning to date Suspension from school Becoming involved with drugs or alcohol Birth of a brother or sister Increase in arguments between parents Loss of job by parent Outstanding personal achievement Accepted at college of choice Being a senior in high school Hospitalization of a sibling Increased absence of parent from home Brother or sister leaving home Addition of third adult to family Becoming a full fledged member of a ,isque/church Decrease in arguments between parents Decrease in arguments with parents Mother or father beginning work Survival Needs(Issues) b) Daily Hassles Some Examples of Daily Hassles Misplacing keys Arguments Traffic jams Time pressures Lack of sleep Fear of Crime Shopping Bureaucracy Waiting Loneliness Queuing Pollution Gossip Relatives Excess noise Inconsiderate people Difficult neighbours Car breakdown Meal Preparation Job dissatisfaction Office Politics Problems with children 2. Internal Stressors Beliefs Expectations Locus of control Low assertion Low self esteem People pleasing Perception Perfectionism Personality Examples of Some Causes of Stress Physical Stressors Sleep debt Excess/to little exercise Poor diet Drug misuse Alcohol misuse Excess heat Excess caffeine Chronic hyperventilation Excess cold Illness Smoking Hypoglycaemia Lack of relaxation Surgery Chronic pain Psychological Stressors Excess anger Unrealistic beliefs Excess pessimism Health worries Unrealistic expectations Excessive worrying Unhappy childhood Remuneration (Survival Needs) Perfectionism Loneliness Low self esteem Low levels of assertion People pleasing Boredom Negative self talk Personality Rigid thinking style Excessive self criticism Exams Giving talks/presentations Environmental Stressors Pollution Excess noise Poor housing Damp conditions Traffic jams Work Stressors Commuting Time pressures Job insecurity Excess working hours Workplace bullying Company takeovers Understaffing Conflicts with colleagues Remuneration issues(Low pay) Role ambiguity Delegation problems Lack of work recognition Poor support/supervision Workaholic Family Stressors Caring for a chronically ill relative Partner with health problems Partner with alcohol/drug problems Relationship difficulties Arguments with children Bereavement Children leaving home Social Stressors Fear of crime Living in an urban area Deprivation of human survival needs Low social support Bureaucracy/red tape Rude, aggressive, unhelpful people Victim of crime Problem neighbours Racial harassment Other Housing issues Moved house Major house renovation Separation from loved one Relationship issues Child started school/nursery Increased care for elderly or ill person Problems with relatives Problems with friends/neighbours Pet-related problems Work-related problems Change in nature of work Threat of redundancy Changed job Made redundant Remuneration issues Retired Legal problem Emotional or physical illness of close family or relative Serious illness of close family or relative requiring hospitalisation Surgical operation experienced by family member or relative Death of a spouse Death of family member or relative Death of a close friend Emotional or physical illness of yourself Serious illness requiring your own hospitalisation Surgical operation on yourself Pregnancy Birth of a baby Birth of a grandchild Family member left home Difficult relationship with children Difficult relationship with parents What life stressors are emergencies? Inadequate or improper food. Inadequate or improper housing. Inadequate or improper health care. Inadequate or improper security. Inadequate transportation relevant to emergency. Inadequate clothing relevant to climate. Inadequate or improper guidelines relevant to basic needs. Any medical emergency. What are various life stressors a human being can experience? There are more than 180 life stressors. A human being can experience one or more life stressors at any given point. Life stressors can be good stressors or bad stressors. If bad life stressors are not managed properly or appropriate help is not obtained, bad life stressors can lead to various harms. A medical doctor can experience life stressors. A counselor can experience life stressors. Stressors can be good or bad. http://www.qureshiuniversity.com/lifestressorsexamples.html http://www.qureshiuniversity.com/psychiatrystressors.html Arguments with children Alcohol misuse Arguments Addition to family Bereavement Bureaucracy/red tape Boredom Being fired at work Beginning or ceasing formal schooling Business readjustment Beliefs Birth of a baby (Normal) Birth of a baby (Conspiracy) Birth of a grandchild Conspiracy Change in living conditions Change in resources Change in number of arguments with spouse Change to a different line of work Change in eating habits Changes in residence Changing to a new school Change in number of family gatherings Career change Change in eating habits Change in number of marital arguments Change in work responsibilities Change in work hours, conditions Change in mosque, church activities Change in social activities Change in recreational habits Change in residence Change in family member’s health Change in schools Change in sleeping habits Change in the health/behavior of a family member Change in nature of work Children leaving home Caring for a chronically ill relative Commuting Conflicts with colleagues Car breakdown Chronic pain Death of close friend Damp conditions Drug misuse Difficult neighbours Death of close family member Divorce(Relevant to type of relationship) Detention in jail or other institution Death of spouse Death of close family member Delegation problems Difficult relationship with children Difficult relationship with parents Distressed relationships Excess noise Excessive self criticism Excessive worrying Excess pessimism Excess anger Excess cold Expectations Excessive Exercise Excess/to little exercise Excess heat Excess caffeine Fear of crime Food, housing problems Fired from job Family member left home Gaining a new family member(ie.,birth,adoption) Gossip Giving talks/presentations Health worries Inconsiderate people Illness Increased care for elderly or ill person Injury Jail term Job dissatisfaction Lack of sleep Loneliness Locus of control Low assertion Low self esteem Lifecycle Disruption Lack of relaxation Loneliness Low self esteem Late hours Low levels of assertion Living in an urban area Low social support Major change in number of family get-togethers Major change in sleeping habits (a lot more or a lot less than usual) Major change in social activities (________) Major change in usual type and/or amount of recreation Major change in mosque, church or temple activity (i.e.. a lot more or less than usual) Major changes in working hours or conditions Major change in living condition Major change in responsibilities at work Misplacing keys Marital reconciliation Marriage (Describe) Marital separation Major business readjustment Marital reconciliation with mate Marriage(Describe) Marital Separation from mate Meal Preparation Major house renovation Made redundant Nutritional Deficiencies Noise Pollution Negative self talk Older adult moving in Office Politics Personal injury or illness People pleasing Perfectionism Poor diet Perception Perfectionism Pregnancy Personal injury or illness Pollution Problems with children People pleasing Personality Pollution Poor support/supervision Pain Poor Diet Poor housing Partner with health problems Partner with alcohol/drug problems Problem neighbours Problems with relatives Problems with friends/neighbours Pet-related problems Retirement from work Repeated conspiracies Revision of personal habits (dress manners, associations, quitting smoking) Role ambiguity Relationship difficulties Rude, aggressive, unhelpful people Relatives Rigid thinking style Racial harassment Racism And Discrimination Separation from loved one Sleep Deprivation Surgical operation experienced by family member or relative Surgical operation on yourself Spouse stressor An unaffectionate spouse Unforgiving attitude of a spouse Lack of proper communication between spouses Unable to find quality time for each other Extramarital relationships Step children Dealing with in-laws Repeated conpiracies (See conspiracies in detail) Son or daughter leaving home Spouse begins or ceases working Starting or finishing school Sexual Difficulties Sleep Problems Smoking Surgery Temperature Extremes Toxic Exposures Traumas (mental/emotional/physical) Travel Trouble with in-laws Trouble with boss Taking on a _________ (car,etc.,) Traffic jams Time pressures Trouble with boss Threat of redundancy Unrealistic beliefs Understaffing Unrealistic expectations Victim of crime Waiting Workaholic Work-related problems * long hours * heavy workload and/or tight deadlines * organisational change * lack of __________ * lack of clear direction at work * lack of autonomy * boring work * lack of proper resources, equipment or training * poor working conditions * few promotional opportunities * harassment and/or discrimination * conflict with colleagues or supervisors * traumatic incidents, such as workplace accidents