Stress belief
Stress makes you sick, it increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease, and basically stress is viewed as the enemy. Can changing how you think about stress make you heather and the science says yes. When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body’s response to stress. The physical changes experienced during stress are interpreted as anxiety or signs that we aren’t coping very well with the pressure but what if you viewed them instead as sings that your body was energised, was preparing you to meet this challenge. Your biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel, instead of bottling it up. When life is difficult your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people who care about you. Your stress response has a built in mechanism for stress resilience and that mechanism is human connection.
My target audience would be anyone who has entered the work wold because on average they experience the most stress. The purpose of my documentary is to educate, to show a side of stress that not many people are aware of. I would include psychologists to provide their opinion. Members of the public and ask them questions like, how much stresses have you experienced in the last year? Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health? And how much time have you spent helping out friends, neighbours, and people in your community?
Changing how you view stress can help but it won’t