Birth, Vacation, Birthday, Wedding...
It is just about possible that some happy event could be just as stressful as a tragic one. People have died laughing, for example.
stressful and happy
NO. Losing a spouse is NOT a "top stressful life event" .... it would be in the "top life traumas" I respectfully disagree. Death of a spouse IS a life event, and in fact, is #1 on everyone's scale of most stressful life events (it is #1 on life events for adults; death of a parent is #1 for non-adults). Even things that should be happy occasions (vacation, holidays) have a stress rating.
reactive depression
Trauma
one is appraising whether an event is stressful and relevant to him or her
true it is stressful that sucks losing someone :(
true it is stressful that sucks losing someone :(
Planning an event can be a stressful time with many details to organize. The easiset way to avoid frustration during event planning is to hire an event planner.
occurs when a person can't cope with a stressful event and develops emotional or behavioral symptoms. The stressful event can be anything: it might be just one isolated incident, or a string of problems that wears the person down
The most stressful event according to the Holmes and Rahe Life Events Scale is the death of a child or spouse.
a cat will purr when in pain as well as when happy