Informative Speech Outline On Stress

Topic: Managing Stress

General Purpose: To inform

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the different types of stress and ways on how to manage it.

Thesis: Managing stress may be complicated, but there are many positive ways to reduce stress from your life.

I. Introduction

Attention Getter: Have you ever found yourself feeling overloaded or overwhelmed? Where you start to feel your

One cause of stress among college students is interpersonal causes such as relationship between friends and family.

Not having a good relationship with friends or family can make you feel loneliness or worthlessness.

According to Duck (1981), individuals with good relationships live longer and report less physical and psychological illness and greater satisfaction with life.

3. Another cause of stress among college students has to do with academics.

According to Campbell & Svenson (1992), when stress is perceived negatively or becomes excessive, it can affect both health and academic performance.

Challenging classes, workload of college and other academic obstacles leads to

B. There are three different kinds of stress.

Acute stress

According to The American Psychological Association, it states that overdoing on short-term stress can lead to psychological distress, tension headaches, upset stomach and other symptoms.

It is a short term and the most common kind of stress. It can be exciting and thrilling, but it passes quickly. This can be treatable and manageable.

Episodic acute stress

Anyone with episodic acute stress are always very anxious, short tempered, and tense kind of people.

Some of the symptoms are persistent tension headaches, chest pain, and heart disease.

This kind of stress can make your workplace a very stressful