Stressed out?

What is stress?

1. What are the most common causes and symptoms of stress? How can you tell thatsomeone is suffering from stress?
2. How can keeping a pet help people to feel less stressed? What type of pet do you think would be best for reducing stress?
3. Would you say that you lead a stressful life? Are there times in the day, week or year which are more stressful than others? What aboutrelaxing? When and how do you relax?
4. Some people say that a certain amount ofstress can be good, useful or necessary. Do you agree? Why?/Why not?
5. Do you think that life these days is more stressful than in the past? Why?/Why not?
6. How often do you feel that you don’t have enough time? Do you often do things in a hurry? Does this make you feel stressed?
7. When you feel stressed or irritable do you let your feelings out or do you tend to bottle them up?
8. Would you describe yourself as an organised person? Do you think being organised helps to reduce the amount of stress in life? Why?/Why not?