“Do you respond to chronic stress with a nervous breakdown?” I walked through the halls of Flathead High school with this question. Some students wondered what I meant, while others said they had never heard of such a disease. Often I met people who said that stress was exactly what they were experiencing. “It seems I have stress every day,” said sophomore Sean Kelly. “I try not to think about it, though.” But why do people who have stress try not to deal with it? Does it mean that they are to busy, or just afraid to think that they are in a stressful situation and therefore need some time to cope with it? Before students can deal with the stress they are under, many need to first realize it is present. “Sometimes when people have stress, they don’t deal with it,” said junior Ashleigh Solak. “Either they don’t know it is there or they simply can’t deal with it.” |
