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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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By cjd - 23/03/2012 14:23 - Canada - Montreal

Today, in health class we were watching a documentary about anxiety. My teacher asked if any of us often feel anxious. I was too anxious to raise my hand, and went into a minor panic attack. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/09/2009 21:31 - United States

Today, I was in my psychology class taking the hardest test ever. After I spent most of the period trying to fill in the few answers that I knew, I looked up to see everyone with their notebooks on their desks. It was an open-note test. FML

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By nicoleee - 29/03/2012 20:16 - United States

Today, I was talking about phobias and anxiety disorders in psychology class. I nearly had a panic attack because I was worried that someone might realize I suffer from them. FML

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SIKE!

By Scared - 06/07/2021 08:01

Today, in my psychology class, the professor had us write down our name and birthday on one side of the paper and on the other side put down a mental disorder we would like to know more about. I was going to write 'Social anxiety disorder' but I was too worried about what people would think. FML

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By siddance - 04/09/2015 18:08 - United States - San Diego

Today, I had an extreme panic attack in the middle of class. I interrupted another person's presentation, burst into tears, and ran out of class whilst everyone looked at me. FML

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By disfordiploma - 25/03/2009 04:12 - United States

Today, I found out that I'm failing this semester because I've missed too many classes. I've missed the classes because I've been having panic attacks, a symptom of my anxiety disorder. I got the anxiety disorder because I was so afraid of failing school. FML

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Symptomatic

By Anonymous - 27/02/2022 13:59 - Germany

Today, I discovered that a high enough stress level can cause the same symptoms as the flu. So whenever things are quite awful at work, I get the added bonus of feeling like I’m coming down with something really nasty. FML

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Help!

By Anonymous - 18/11/2021 19:58

Today, our boss nicely asked if we were stressed. Before I could answer in the affirmative and ask for help, my colleague replied, “Stress is for the weak!” She was serious. FML

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By canwesayfail - 18/05/2016 02:20 - United States - Gloucester

Today, the only part of my Psychology final that I was 100% confident in was my name. FML

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Bad sign

By Kate - 17/10/2024 20:00 - Canada - London

Today, my doctor asked if I had any "unusual stress." I laughed and said, "I’ve been crying in the shower, does that count?" He paused, looked at me seriously, and said, "Yes. Yes, it does." FML

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Friday 12 February 2010 20:29

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!

chasin_butterfli 0

Friday 12 February 2010 20:06

Time for a vacation? 

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BigLostBear 0

Saturday 13 February 2010 4:18

I agree with #71

anonymous112295 0

Saturday 13 February 2010 4:25

I agree with 82. Hahahahaa

canadianbuddy_fml 0

Saturday 13 February 2010 4:31

it's time to stop stressing about not having friend and actually go out and get some.

SingingalotFYE 0

Saturday 13 February 2010 5:48

omg we got the same worksheet in health class! yeah, I got like the highest percentage in the class too lol

cbshorty235 2

Saturday 13 February 2010 8:10

actually the results of that test only prove that you have an 80% chance of having some type of illness NOT a life threatening one. you should pay attention in class the maybe you wouldn't be so stressed

lightburns 10

Saturday 13 February 2010 12:47

I remember us doing that for AS psychology... I also played pacman in front of the class so they could see my stress going up and down depending on where the ghosts were

TheOtherNewest1 6

Saturday 13 February 2010 16:09

I think it's kind of ****** up that they announced the results...

missmarley93 1

Saturday 13 February 2010 17:09

ugh, we had to do something like that in my PALS class...it didn't say our chances of getting a stress-related illness but it did say something like I'm overly stressed, but hearing that just made me even more stressed. ughhh! lol