Causes Of Stress In Your Life Essay

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Davidson 1
Rebecca Davidson
Steve Miller
Intro to College Writing
Due: July 2, 2013

What are major causes of stress in your life? Life seems to take many twists and turns that somehow meshes into each other and cause a person to stress. However, the things that stress me out are bills, being pregnant, and being able to maintain school while having a job. And though my siblings look up to me as their role model they notice life is not going to be always easy. They realize how stressful life can get. To begin with, I just hate the fact of having to pay bills. It has been very stressful for me these last couple of months since I had a huge decrease in my income. I recently had been working two jobs to help me maintain my bills, but now that one of my jobs has been shut down due to fraud things have gotten a lot more stressful. It has been very stressful on my end because I still have these bills that I am responsible for in order for me to keep a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and food on the table. I worry about how my rent is going to get paid so that I do not get evicted. I worry about my electricity bill getting paid as well each month so that I do not have to sit in the dark and be miserable without TV. Although being pregnant is a blessing it is for some reason very stressful as well. Every morning I wake up, my body is feeling very weak and I am always vomiting. I even at times have no appetite and that worries me because if I do not eat then my son does not eat either. I have to make sure that my son is receiving the correct amount of vitamins each day so that he can be a healthy baby when he does arrive. Another thing that I find stressful about being pregnant is

Davidson 2 being pregnant during the summer season. I literally hate it with all my guts. I feel very miserable and irritated in the heat, and it makes me feel very hot and sticky so I try my best to stay cool by staying in the house most of the time. Lastly, going to school while having to work an eight to ten hour shift four days a week is like trying to be superwoman and can be very stressful. I need more rest. As it is, I barely