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Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  .This section is about causes of stress.  Topics include: ( ) Environmental.  ( ) Psychological.  ---  1/24/2006


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  (1) Emotional.  (2) Sexual: internal drives, external stimulus.  (3) Drives.  (4) Intellectual.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  (1) Everyone and everything is stress.  (2) Life is stress, pain is stress, life is pain.  (3) Life is conflict.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  (1) Failures, mistakes.  (2) Decay: mind body, stuff and possessions.  (3) (A) Past things, (B) Present, (C) Future, the unknown.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  (1) Life stress.  (2) Physical vs. psychological.  (3) Real vs. imagined or exaggerated.  (4) Emotional: a feeling vs. intellectual: a thought.  (5) Behavioral vs. experiential.  (6) Healthy vs. unhealthy.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Areas.  (1) Work: environment, people, task.  (2) Social: like/lust, family.  (3) Emotion: loneliness, fear, worry, anger, sadness, boredom, frustration.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Drive repression causes frustration, which causes stress.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Emotions cause stress?  Stress causes emotions?  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  In times of trouble (problems).  In times of plenty (challenges).  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Internal stress vs. external stress.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Life today is very stressful.  Urban, overcrowded, poor, lonely, complicated, repressive.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Opposition stress, change stress, environment stress, drive stress, job stress: the work, the people.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  People caused vs. non people caused (natural, manmade).  External vs. internal (body, mind).  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Stress caused by (1) Natural physical environment.  (2) Others, by their words or acts.  (3) Self by thoughts.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Stress types and amounts we put ourselves under.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Stressors: ignorance, poor problem solving skills, poor logic.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Stressors.  (1) Threat of death, homelessness, life without love. (2) Opposition: from nature, others, self.  (3) Failures and losses, rejection.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Too much, too soon vs. just right vs. too little, too late.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Types.  (1) Things that could help us vs. things that could hurt us.  (2) Things that are helping us vs. things that aren't.  (3) Things that are hurting us vs. things that aren't.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, stress, causes.  ---  Work: forced to be with people you don't like, doing what you don't like to do.  ---  12/30/1992




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