David's Overview

Christopher needs to learn how to deal with his stress, because it will continue to negatively affect him. The Help Guide says, “But when stress becomes overwhelming, it can damage your health, mood, relationships, and quality of life”(Segal). Christopher’s stress is causing him to make irrational decisions that are going to damage his relationship with his father. His lack of seeing other options, causes his stress to increase. He is trying to deal with all the stress he has on a limited amount of knowledge about the situation, which causes irrational decisions. Since he can not handle the stress he starts to become frustrated and overwhelmed. His irrational decisions have stemmed from the large amount of stress, and the stress is causing his mind not to work at the same level as it used to. He can not deal with the stress, so the stress is going to shape his mood and decisions.