By Stressy - 12/02/2010 11:39 - United Kingdom

Today, in my psychology class, we were given a sheet that had a list of stressful events and we were to select the ones we had experienced in the last 12 months. I got highest in my class of above an 80% chance of getting a life threatening illness due to stress. Everyone laughed. FML
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i_t_s_m_e 0

Do you know how curious I am now? As I too am from Coventry and did this experiment in my psychology class today. I wonder if it was the same class...? Interesting. But if it was the same class, you'll know that one of the main flaws if this experiment is that it fails to take individual differences into account. Plus, it ignores the good things in people's lives, that help to counter balance stress. So really, you don't need to worry about it at all!

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Crissie_fml 0

Since you were in psychology class you should have also learned that it is always nature and nurture, never just one or the other. Excluding depression, all of the stress in the world won't cause a disorder psychologically unless you are already predisposed biologically.

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lil_miss_shorty 2

Bah we took that test too in my psych class. It means nothing really :P I think I turned out to have a Type C personality, if that makes you feel any better. (For those who don't take psychology, type C personalitites are the most likely to develop cancer. Don't quite know how that works but hey I'm just going with the research here lol.)

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i_t_s_m_e 0

biology and psychology are not independent; each represents the functioning of a super system with components that can no longer be thought of as separate or autonomous mechanisms. The past quarter century of scientific inquiry has supplanted the traditional Western medical view of a split between body and mind with a truer, more unitary perspective. Our mind and body are one and our physiology, including our immune system, is directly affected by our emotions. Thus the repression of emotions threatens not only our psychological health but also our physical well-being. It does so by suppressing our immune response. In turn, immune suppression leaves us susceptible to bacterial or viral invaders, or to malignant changes from within. I copied this from a website. Here's the full link if you want it :) http://www.alive.com/3103a6a2.php?subject_bread_cramb=116

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spez86 0

there trying to catagorize us don't let them ((.))((.)) ^ {____}. there watching brain washing aaahhhhhhh

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Incubuss 0

I did this in my Psychology class as well. Someone got a similar score to that and everyone laughed in ours because half of the studies don't truly reflect real life. Especially the one you're talking about. Studies into stress are almost all correlational so we can't establish cause and effect, which means we don't know whether the stressful situations are what actually cause the illnesses. Get a sense of ******* humour.

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sportsnut 0

i must say, you probably brought on most of the stress by yourself especially if you are getting stressed out about that. I would laugh too and it certainly would not be at you, i just wouldn't care enough about your life to make it be about you. Its a fun exercise as it is

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maa_rico 4

did you just type the word bitch? omg u r getting worst

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epictrollathon 0

Hey, who doesn't get a good laugh from a life threatening illness? Buck up; you're not dead yet!

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Compass 0

They're all douches. They're contributing to your death, you know.

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ShadowzI 0

that happen to me till. I scored 660 points for stress, I noticed the second highest was a bout 220. everyone laughed.

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whiteasavampire8 0

same thing happened to me today in health class. except no one laughed. they all just stared at me like I was some kind of freak:(

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