My world began to spin out of control. I found myself unable to concentrate, my heart was racing and I was out of breath. I was restless, edgy and keyed up. I couldn’t sleep and my muscles constantly ached. My short-term memory was very short term.

Just about all the friends I know do not like spiders but my dislike goes deeper. There are many things we do not know about each other.

The subject of stress management and college students is a bit of a tricky one. While it is no big secret that college students are under a lot of pressure each and every day while studying, the fact that they have such a wide variety of stress sources and triggers is what makes it difficult to assess and help them.