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Hendrick said lack of time because of procrastination made him feel less confident about his abilities.
Stress factors
Many people suffer the physical ailments without realizing that stress is part of the problem.
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STRESS
Dean Kerkman, a clinical psychologist at Watkins, said that between 60 and 70 percent of physician office visits can be traced to stress-related illnesses.
"Of course, there are a lot of factors involved in stress-related disorders," he said. "For example, many times a person under stress won't eat right now, but if you make more problems on too the original stressors."
Stressors are the individual factors causing a person to experience stress.
Missed meals, particularly breakfast, can harm the body in invisible ways.
In their book "Stress? Find Your Balance," Lynn Ostermark, a research associate at the KU gerontology center, and Allan Press, associate professor of social welfare, say that although missing breakfast might save time in the morning, it costs time later in the day.
"The fine work for miss breakfast shows up as lowered work output, lack of energy, or feeling fatigued."
Busy students also may resort to grabbing a quick meal, usually junk food, from a vending machine. "Stress? Find Your Balance" said that some food sold in vending machines was healthy, and that it was important to make sure the body's nutritional needs were met.
Demo said students typically don't get enough exercise, either. In a flurry of study, students often perch behind a desk for an entire night, which can worsen their situation.
Breaks are crucial to mental health, she said.
After blankly staring at the same sentence a door opens, she looks at her phone.
If this were a mirror, she'd see fat.
Neglecting sleep also helps stockpile stressors. Bill Early, St. Louis sophomore, has orders from his doctor to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. Last year Early became ill, he said, because he worried too much about his school work and didn't sleep enough.
Of course, each person can handle different levels of stress. And a sense of priorities can be the difference between coping or not coping.
"You may not be able to change the stressful situation, but you can change the way you react to it."
And she'll turn down meal after meal to get rid of fat that isn't there. Or clean out half the refrigerator, make room for more food or become damnely obsessed with exercise.
"I was always tired and run down, and I couldn't figure out what was going wrong," he said. "My doctor said that I was suffering from too much stress.
"This year, I have rearranged my priorities. Grades aren't as important to me."
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"When I need a study break, I like to get it, the car and drive to the lake or something," she said. "It doesn't really matter where I'm going, I just like to get away from where I am."
A drive to the lake, or just a brisk walk around the lake is a useful study break and it can release tension.
Eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia are psychological problems that can be physically dangerous - even deadly. The Eating Disorders Clinic located at the Charter Counseling Center of Lawrence is specifically designed to get at the underlying psychological problems, while teaching healthy new eating habits.
"When you exercise, you release a hormone called catecholamine, which helps relieve muscle stress," she said. "Also, you release epinephrine, which is the same as adrenaline, and it can help you get reved back up."
Kerkman operates the biofeedback machine at Watkins which gauges stress. Biofeedback machines take body temperature, heart rate and pressure to evaluate the pressure a person is experiencing.
Under the machine's eye, a person can watch the stress level increase and decrease as it happens. The goal, Kerkman said, is to learn mental control over body stress without the machine's help.
The initial biofeedback consultation is free, although enusing visits cost $5 each.
KU students have an abundance of resources designed to help them cope with stress. The Wellness Clinic; the Counseling Center; the Mental Health Clinic at Watkins; the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, 218 Bailey Hall; KU Psychological Clinic, 315 Fraser Hall; Watkins Health Education; and KU Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall, each serve different needs, although all are aimed at helping KU students handle stress.
Mo., junior, said that it was time to take a break.
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I was always tired and run down, and I couldn't figure out what was going wrong. My doctor said that I was suffering from too much stress.'
"People learn stress, and people can unlearn stress," he said.
Kerkman said that people needed to take control of their internal condition
Through learning techniques such as relaxation and meditation, Demo said, people can reduce their stress while remaining in stressful situations.
"It's important to set goals that you can attain; and when you reach a goal, sit back and enjoy it," she said. "When you survive a tough situation, feel about it instead of always putting yourself down."
"You can catch yourself tensing up, or using creative imagery helps," she said. "Creative imagery is when you mentally put yourself in a scene, like imagine you are at a beach, or something."
"Become aware of your surroundings. Look out the window or walk outside and think something."
Demo said that having fun can be the best cure for the overly stressed and through a healthy dose of self approval, people can learn not to compound their situation with internal stress.
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Denny and his associates began to look at other, more concrete methods of analyzing the effects of stress. They decided to examine the effect on the system, the body's natural defense network.
feel horrible and yeah, my back hurts, too.' We wanted to find some data that didn't rely on self-reporting."
Research problems, however, are common for psychioimmunologists. Since many things affect the immune system's effectiveness, iso-effects of stress on immunity is a challenge.
"Finding a methodology that could narrow the effects such that we are sure that stress is causing the changes in immunity is tricky," he said.
They decided to use persons suffering major depression under the care of the department of psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"We carefully matched them up with others of the same age, sex, background, race, whether they smoked — things like that," he said. "But persons in the comparison group had no history
of psychiatric problems."
Researchers compared blood samples of the same people with the blood of the comparative group.
Scientists long have known that particular white blood cells, called lymphocytes, have the capability to initiate the appropriate body defense.
Denny and his colleagues started with what they knew.
Lymphocytes come in two categories: T-helper cells, which amplify an infection so that the body will defend itself; and T-suppressor cells, which ston the body's response.
This delicate balance works when the two types keep each other in check. It backfires when one type overreacts.
"Allergies are the classic example of an overreactive immune system." Denny said. "With allergies, T-helper cells send a message that it is being attacked, when, in fact, it is not."
Conversely, he said, T-helper cells fail in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome patients.
Denny's research contradicts traditional scientific thought.
Scientists had assumed that stress decreased the amount of T-helper cells in the blood system, thus weakening the defenses, he said.
"What we have found instead is that the total number of T cells, both helper and suppressor cells, is substantially lowered by stress," he said.
Interestingly, he said, the more depressed the patients said they were on the questionnaire, the better.
Dean Kerkman, clinical psychologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the effects of the mental state often had an effect on the results of things such as questionnaires.
"The mind and the body act as one," he said. He affected the way a person responds to his word.
The research is ongoing, and Denny said that he has been tested that it would take another interesting twist.
"I think we will find that the answer is not a deficiency in the neurological system, rather we will find that it is a chemical deficiency."
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