Stress in Psychology

If a person experiences a lot of stress, it tends to act like a type of common cold because the person is usually tired and sleepy more frequently and becomes more susceptible to becoming even more sick than before. Stress is normal and can occur almost everyday, but learning how to deal with it is a key factor to maintaining good health.
             While the body unconsciously maintains homeostasis internally, we as people try to maintain homeostasis externally. People strive for several things in life and having control over their life is one of them. Having and maintaining control tends to give people a feeling of self-gratification because it is something that they have accomplished and have been successful with. Because we encounter numerous and various situations daily, we tend to become so wrapped up with everything around us that we occasionally lose grasp of what we once had under control. The ideal of being helpless and vulnerable can be disturbing, which is why we try to have control over our environment.
             The majority of the people in the world grow up with an idea or sense of beliefs, whether it is personal or religious. There are some people who tend to believe in fate, or something outside of their control has a great impact on their decision-making and perception on life. But there are also people who tend to go through life with the belief that everything that occurs in their life is under their control. There are always the exceptions where an uncontrollable and traumatic event occurs on occasions. In those situations, people very often will feel helpless. Say that there was a child that went to school everyday and had continuously got picked on and teased by all of his/her fellow classmates. Unfortunately the child is required to go to school everyday, so the child has to deal with it. The child learns to become helpless while at school. Because of the everyday torment, the child just gets used to it and stops defending itself.