Eng 102
Nathalie Bonilla
5/1/2017
Rough Draft for Research Paper
College is a very stressful time in our lives we have deadlines to meet and lives that we need to keep up with. Some of us already have families and some of need to support them. It is difficult to work and go to school but many of us do it. Along with trying to get a college diploma we tend to look for methods or ways that work to cope with the stress of going to school. I know many people can relate to this stress, like any adolescence we are very vurnable leaving high school and starting college. The level of stress hasn’t really hit us until we start college. Young adults tend to use weed or alcohol as an outlet to relieve some of the burden that we endure when we get into our adolescence stage of life. Many adults have a hard time balancing work and school and keeping up with both. That’s where the challenge comes into place, and it’s hard not to use weed or alcohol to help ease with the burden of daily living. Everyone has different responsibilities; some adults drop out because the pressure takes over. For many people turning to something like weed or alcohol is easy to do .For some keeping a job is important because at that point they are working to keep that habit alive. I have always asked myself what community college stressors make young adults resort to weed or alcohol? Approximately 22 percent of students graduate within three years attending community colleges according to Community College Review. Many stressors play apart in our lives, in English class we have this play we are reading that uses a lot of examples and drugs to cope with the everyday struggle as adolescence. In the play intersections there are many characters that use weed and alcohol as an outlet. Some have an upcoming death of a loved one. In another scene Relationships start to change because of substance abuse, major life changes such as a new job. All these major scenes in this play show you the stressors that many adolescence face. Like myself and my peers I know are able to relate to these stressors and how we turn to these substances to live with. I want to use this paper to understand what college student’s main stressors are and why they resort to weed and alcohol.
Stress is an emotional and mental strain due to difficult circumstances. It is very easy for a person to get stress. Stress is a complicated word to describe because everyone stresses differently. It not only damages your mental health but it also affects your physical well being. There are many triggers that lead to stress. Death of a loved one is one of them like in the play intersections we have a scene with Janelle, Travis and Danielle. In this scene the three of them have just found out that their grandmother has just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. A death of a loved one or preparing for a death of a loved one is a trigger of stress for sure. According to the stress and substance abuse program. Being young you can defiantly endure a lot of anxiety worry and stress about this situation which will and can defiantly cloud your judgment and have you off. It can mess with your love life and defiantly your school life. Believe it or not but there any many stages of stress. One being that stress can become chronic stress which is so harmful that it starts to bother the levels of chemicals in your body. Other stressors can be major life changes like moving to a new house or job. Relationships can fail and you can resort to unhealthy habits such as substance abuse. It is normal for someone to feel like they need to resort to something to help them with the stress. But the problem is college students use weed or alcohol as a best short term solution. It’s dangerous for them to do this because this can lead to addiction. If addiction occurs the person will have a very hard time stopping. This turns into losing everything such as possesons, health, friends, family and even self respect. Little do people know weed and alcohol like any other substance raises the stress of that person’s life more than it was before. You can almost see the chain reaction the stress causes the person to turn to substances. Being in college we need to wake up early commute, come home late and complete our assignments. Lack of sleep, lack or energy, headaches, anxiety these are some symptoms of stress. Being a college student regardless of how many classes you take you are already at a high level or stress.
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