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Subject: stress

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Date Posted: 12:08:55 01/20/07 Sat

Your Stress Scale
STRESS SCALE FOR ADULTS
In the following table you can look up representative changes in your life and see how much stress value each of these changes is adding to your life. NOTE ANY ITEM THAT YOU MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS. Then, total up your score.

(Adapted from the "Social Readjustment Rating Scale" by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe. This scale was first published in the "Journal of Psychosomatic Research", Copyright 1967, vol.II p. 214. It is used by permission of Pergamon Press Ltd.)
STRESS EVENT VALUE
DEATH OF SPOUSE
100

DIVORCE
60

MENOPAUSE
60

SEPARATION FROM LIVING PARTNER
60

JAIL TERM OR PROBATION
60

DEATH OF CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER OTHER THAN SPOUSE
60

SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY OR ILLNESS
45

MARRIAGE OR ESTABLISHING LIFE PARTNERSHIP
45

FIRED AT WORK
45

MARITAL OR RELATIONSHIP RECONCILIATION
40

RETIREMENT
40

CHANGE IN HEALTH OF IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER
40

WORK MORE THAN 40 HOURS PER WEEK
35

PREGNANCY OR CAUSING PREGNANCY
35

SEX DIFFICULTIES
35

GAIN OF NEW FAMILY MEMBER
35

BUSINESS OR WORK ROLE CHANGE
35

CHANGE IN FINANCIAL STATE
35

DEATH OF A CLOSE FRIEND (not a family member)
30

CHANGE IN NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS WITH SPOUSE OR LIFE PARTNER
30

MORTGAGE OR LOAN FOR A MAJOR PURPOSE
25

FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE OR LOAN
25

SLEEP LESS THAN 8 HOURS PER NIGHT
25

CHANGE IN RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK
25

TROUBLE WITH IN-LAWS, OR WITH CHILDREN
25

OUTSTANDING PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT
25

SPOUSE BEGINS OR STOPS WORK
20

BEGIN OR END SCHOOL
20

CHANGE IN LIVING CONDITIONS (visitors in the home, change in roommates, remodeling house)
20

CHANGE IN PERSONAL HABITS (diet, exercise, smoking, etc.)
20

CHRONIC ALLERGIES
20

TROUBLE WITH BOSS
20

CHANGE IN WORK HOURS OR CONDITIONS
15

MOVING TO NEW RESIDENCE
15

PRESENTLY IN PRE-MENSTRUAL PERIOD
15

CHANGE IN SCHOOLS
15

CHANGE IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
15

CHANGE IN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES (more or less than before)
15

MINOR FINANCIAL LOAN
10

CHANGE IN FREQUENCY OF FAMILY GET-TOGETHERS
10

VACATION
10

PRESENTLY IN WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON
10

MINOR VIOLATION OF THE LAW
5

TOTAL SCORE ___________________________

STRESS SCALE FOR YOUTH
STRESS EVENT VALUE
DEATH OF SPOUSE, PARENT, BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND
100

DIVORCE (of yourself or your parents)
65

PUBERTY
65

PREGNANCY (or causing pregnancy)
65

MARITAL SEPARATION OR BREAKUP WITH BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND
60

JAIL TERM OR PROBATION
60

DEATH OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBER (other than spouse, parent or boyfriend/girlfriend)
60

BROKEN ENGAGEMENT
55

ENGAGEMENT
50

SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY OR ILLNESS
45

MARRIAGE
45

ENTERING COLLEGE OR BEGINNING NEXT LEVEL OF SCHOOL (starting junior high or high school)
45

CHANGE IN INDEPENDENCE OR RESPONSIBILITY
45

ANY DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL USE
45

FIRED AT WORK OR EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL
45

CHANGE IN ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE
45

RECONCILIATION WITH MATE, FAMILY OR BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND (getting back together)
40

TROUBLE AT SCHOOL
40

SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEM OF A FAMILY MEMBER
40

WORKING WHILE ATTENDING SCHOOL
35

WORKING MORE THAN 40 HOURS PER WEEK
35

CHANGING COURSE OF STUDY
35

CHANGE IN FREQUENCY OF DATING
35

SEXUAL ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS (confusion of sexual identitity)
35

GAIN OF NEW FAMILY MEMBER (new baby born or parent remarries or adopts)
35

CHANGE IN WORK RESPONSIBILITIES
35

CHANGE IN FINANCIAL STATE
30

DEATH OF A CLOSE FRIEND (not a family member)
30

CHANGE TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORK
30

CHANGE IN NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS WITH MATE, FAMILY OR FRIENTS
30

SLEEP LESS THAN 8 HOURS PER NIGHT
25

TROUBLE WITH IN-LAWS OR BOYFRIEND'S OR GIRLFRIEND'S FAMILY
25

OUTSTANDING PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT (awards, grades, etc.)
25

MATE OR PARENTS START OR STOP WORKING
20

BEGIN OR END SCHOOL
20

CHANGE IN LIVING CONDITIONS (visitors in the home, remodeling house, change in roommates)
20

CHANGE IN PERSONAL HABITS (start or stop a habit like smoking or dieting)
20

CHRONIC ALLERGIES
20

TROUBLE WITH THE BOSS
20

CHANGE IN WORK HOURS
15

CHANGE IN RESIDENCE
15

CHANGE TO A NEW SCHOOL (other than graduation)
10

PRESENTLY IN PRE-MENSTRUAL PERIOD
15

CHANGE IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY
15

GOING IN DEBT (you or your family)
10

CHANGE IN FREQUENCY OF FAMILY GATHERINGS
10

VACATION
10

PRESENTLY IN WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON
10

MINOR VIOLATION OF THE LAW
5

TOTAL SCORE _____________________________________

We have asked you to look at the last twelve months of changes in your life. This may surprise you. It is crucial to understand, however, that a major change in your life has effects that carry over for long periods of time. It is like dropping a rock into a pond. After the initial splash, you will experience ripples of stress. And these ripples may continue in your life for at least a year.

So, if you have experienced total stress within the last twelve months of 250 or greater, even with normal stress tolerance, you may be OVERSTRESSED. Persons with Low Stress Tolerance may be OVERSTRESSED at levels as low as 150.

OVERSTRESS will make you sick. Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running your car engine past the red line; or leaving your toaster stuck in the "on" position; or running a nuclear reactor past maximum permissible power. Sooner or later, something will break, burnup, or melt down.

What breaks depends on where the weak links are in your physical body. And this is largely an inherited characteristic.

Here are the common "weak links", and the symptoms of their malfunction

Brain OVERSTRESS
Fatigue, aches and pains, crying spells, depression, anxiety attacks, sleep disturbance.
Gastrointestinal Tract
Ulcer, cramps and diarrhea, colitis, irritable bowel.
Glandular System
Thyroid gland malfunction.
Cardiovascular
High blood pressure, heart attack, abnormal heart beat, stroke.
Skin
Itchy skin rashes.
Immune System
Decreased resistance to infections and neoplasm.
We have known for a long time that OVERSTRESS could cause physical damage to the gastrointestinal tract, glandular system, skin or cardiovascular system. But only recently have we learned that OVERSTRESS actually causes physical changes in the brain. One of the most exciting medical advances of our decade has been an understanding of how OVERSTRESS physically affects your brain. We now know that the fatigue, aches and pains, crying spells, depression, anxiety attacks and sleep disturbances of OVERSTRESS are caused by brain CHEMICAL MALFUNCTION.

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