1.0 INTRODUCTION
What is stress? Stress as stated in Oxford Dictionary which related to human being is “a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances”. According to Australian Psychological Society (2012) “Stress is often described as a feeling of being overloaded, wound-up tight, tense and worried”. “Stress is what you feel when there is any adjustment you have to make in your life.”(Dr. Ellen Domm, 2012).
Stress is a normal thing for a human being to experience as we have the mental and emotion ability naturally. For example, when we are in a situation which require us to be demanded by others, we are likely to feel the emotional strain or tension as people are asking for our attention which sometime beyond our capability.
As stated by the Australian Psychological Society (2012), the feeling of being overloaded, wound-up tight, tense and worried is the description of
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What does it truly means? Stress is in the eyes of the beholder is just as the simple as the burdens we place on ourselves are often based upon what we perceive to be reality, rather than what actually exists. In other words, it’s not what happens to us in life that is stressful, but rather, how we interpret events as either stressful or not. For example, Zill Faezrull and Raizil are two different people with different character and personality, given two are in the same stress situation such as both are required to submit an essential report which will affect their future in 1 hour time. The term stress is in the eyes of the beholder can be seen as Zill Faezrull handle his stress/work smoothly with the production of an excellent detailed report instead of Raizil which got stress with the situation and time then produce a poor lack of detailed report. With this statement, it is a true fact that stress is indeed in the eyes of the beholder