Sunday, January 27, 2008
Exam is over!!!
So, the topic of discussion for today is Post-Exam Syndrome (PES)..
Post-Exam Syndrome is a type of emotional imbalance which usually occurs in people who have just finished their exams..
The major cause of PES is not known but there are ample theories that try to explain this abnormal mental condition..
As I mentioned on my previous entries, people who are having exams are very prone to extreme mental pressures..
This happen when the mind realises that the individual needs to cope with something beyond his capacity..
The body then pumps loads of Adrenaline through the blood vessels which causes anxiety..
Extreme anxiety will, then cause the person to force himself awake so as to accomplish the task he is doing and this results in probable reverse biological clock..
This poses stress on both the mind and body and causes mood swing..
PES is mainly an extension of this condition..
After exams, the body is still not able to revert to its original state due to the sudden change in normal routine..
As a result, even though the burden is off, your body is still weary after constant stress exposure..
Mood swing is even more common in PES as the mind and the body contradicts with each other with the mind trying to relax but the body refuses to..
This causes the individual to be even more distressed as he cannot comprehend why he still feels so weary even though his burden is gone...
PES is normally uncommon in our daily life because humans have what the experts called Emotional Quotient (EQ) which is basically a measure of people's adaptability to their surroundings...
People with EQ find it very easy to blend in to the surrounding and vice versa..
EQ is not like Intelligence Quotient (IQ) where there is a value to indicate your intelligence level...
EQ is just more like a standard invented to relate human's psychological behaviour with their surroundings..
With that definition in mind, EQ is related to something that we experienced rather than something we learnt..
If you have a lot of experience of staying in different places in a certain period, then most likely you will have a high EQ..
This may not be obvious to certain people but you will surely find it increasingly easy to adapt to new environments once you have had that much experience under your belt...
So, in short, PES occurs mainly because of our inability to cope with changes in our surroundings which in turn, causes severe effects to our mental and physical condition...
There is no way to avoid it, we can only learn from experience...
Btw, I'm not sure if there is such thing called PES in the first place..I just created it out of the blue..and the theory is of course, my own theory...If you have read all the way until here, I'm sorry to say that I have wasted your time...Cheers..
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