“Academic Stress Among Students: A Class Activity for Awareness and Reflection" A Teacher’s Initiative”

Abstract

Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension. It can come from any event or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress is your body's reaction to a challenge or demand. Stress is a universal phenomenon. Stress is a situation where a person feels threatened and challenged. Stress is also associated with depression, anxiety, hopelessness, maladjustment. Stress can be caused by many factors like emotional, family, social, work, decision, communication, phobia, physical, disease, environmental. These all are stressors that can be caused stress in an individual. Many people believe that stress is a psychological condition and it discomforts a person physically, mentally, and socially. Stress can be defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional, or psychological strain. Education has become a source of income in the eyes of common people, where each student as well as their parents wants their child to be best in academic performances keeping all of the other capabilities aside. Nowadays increased level of competition is a well-known case in the country among the students. Mostly students keep a lot of expectation from own and do compare themselves with the whole better lot in all types of academic performances keeping their own capabilities aside and wants to best them out too. But when they are not able to get desired results, mental or a physical stress starts gaining momentum among them. Keywords:-Academic, Stress, Awareness, Reflection, Initiative.