Stress Journal

Hi everyone! I’m back again to talk about stress. This time I will be talking about stress journals. A stress journal is something that is supposed to help you evaluate your stress. It shows a stressful event, a reaction, and a coping response. This journal is designed with the idea that you will be able when you are stressed and how well you cope with it. With recording my stress for approximately a week I found that I don’t really have as much stress as I thought. I think our minds allow us to blow things out of proportion. Even though we feel stressed I find that my stress came from primarily one thing. College Classes! At this point in the semester I am under a lot of stress. I have two novels to read, a group paper coming due for Psychology, work due for College Writing, and an Art project. This is probably the heaviest load thus far in my “college career.” I think that keeping this stress journal maybe has stressed me out a little more than I already was. It just reminded me of the things that I wanted to put out of my head. Obviously But, I guess I have to suck it up and continue pushing through. Below is the chart that I filled out with directions from webmd.com. If you would like to see the article you can follow this link http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/stress-journal-topic-overview .

Time	Stressful Event	Reaction (behavior,thoughts)	Coping response
Fri 1928 (02/24/12)	Late for movies	Told my friend to drive fast and run a stop sign	Not Sure
Sat 1200	Drive home from Clarion on snow covered roads	Feared wrecking my car.	Drove slow and put on light music
Sun 1845	Still hadn’t done my Ethics homework due Mon.	Weight on my chest, constantly in back of mind	Made myself sit down and do it.
Mon 1410	Read part of my book for Psych project	I need to read this fast, I hope it is interesting	I am going to make myself read a little bit each night
Tues 1215	I have a lot of papers and books to write and read	Constantly on my mind	Not Sure
Wednesday 1900	Have to go to meeting which will cause me to lose time for studying	Constantly on my mind, can’t get to sleep. It is past midnight and still awake.	Just have to do a lot more work on the weekend.
Thurs 0530	Somehow forgot to write blog.	I think, “Can I get this done in time?”	Write it at 5:30 am.