What's Your Stress Score?

A stress score is a basically finding out much you stress or have stressed throughout your lifetime. There are examples in the stress score that are given and the objective is to circle the number that relates to past experiences that you may have went through. For example, a few scenarios that were on the test score were "A Death Of A Close Family Member" along with the number one hundred next to it. If you have experienced a death of a close family member then you circle or jot down the number one hundred. A few other questions that were on the test score were "A Change In Health Of A Family Member", "Increased Workload In School", "First Quarter/Semester In College", "A Change In Living Conditions", "Change In Living Conditions", "Chronic Car Trouble", and so forth corresponding with numbers next to each scenario. After circling or jotting down the numbers you have to add the total numbers relating to the problems you have gone through. Individuals with scores of 300 or higher have a high health risk meaning their stress level is very high. Individuals scoring between 150 and 300 points have about a 50-50 chance of serious health change within two years meaning there's a possibility that your stress level is going to be high. Lastly, individuals scoring below 150 have a 1-in-3 chance of serious health change. After completing the stress score and adding up the total amount I realized I have a a higher health risk. My score was 799. I knew my stress level was going to be high but I wasnt expecting my score to be that high. Realizing how high my score was I decided to go about certain situations differently. Relaxing more and just realizing how high my stress score is will hopefully lower my stress level. Incocnlusion, my stress score will be something I will take with me for life.