Stress Management Test

Here’s a quick test to deter­mine your stress lev­el.  Read the fol­low­ing descrip­tion com­plete­ly before look­ing at the picture.

The pic­ture below was used in a case study on stress lev­els at St. Mary’s Hos­pi­tal. Look at both dol­phins jump­ing out of the water. The dol­phins are iden­ti­cal. A close­ly mon­i­tored, sci­en­tif­ic study revealed that, in spite of the fact that the dol­phins are iden­ti­cal, a per­son under stress would find dif­fer­ences between the two dol­phins. The more dif­fer­ences a per­son finds between the dol­phins, the more stress that per­son is experiencing.

Look at the pho­to­graph, and if you find more than one or two dif­fer­ences, you may want to take a vaca­tion or at least get a massage.

–> CLICK HERE to see the pic­ture before read­ing more.

 

How did you do? Do you need a vaca­tion?! Appar­ent­ly I do!

 

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51 Comments

  1. eleanor on March 22, 2007 at 9:48

    *chuck­les*



  2. Caroline on March 22, 2007 at 12:00

    Glad you liked it Eleanor! Were you pret­ty stressed out?!



  3. Anthony on May 15, 2007 at 3:17

    Scared me at first.……and then lol.



  4. Caroline on May 17, 2007 at 4:56

    Did it show that you need­ed a vaca­tion pret­ty bad­ly?! Glad you enjoyed it!



  5. sandra on June 28, 2007 at 5:42

    bril­liant scared the life out of me at first but real­ly good joke



  6. Caroline on June 28, 2007 at 2:45

    San­dra,
    I hope we did­n’t add to the stress in your life! ;-)

    Glad you liked it!



  7. Mark on July 19, 2007 at 11:40

    TOO funny…and I got the “joke” right away!!!



  8. Alvaro on July 19, 2007 at 3:48

    what joke :-)



  9. Robbie J on July 24, 2007 at 10:17

    …some times laugh­ter is the pill we need…



  10. Alvaro on July 24, 2007 at 1:55

    a very good pill!



  11. James on November 10, 2007 at 12:03

    All rightey! This did make me LOL!! Thank you for post­ing it.



  12. paul on November 28, 2007 at 6:24

    haven’t seen any dif­fer­ence between the both dol­phins. They are the same. So, I am relaxed :)) :))



  13. anon on November 28, 2007 at 6:13

    I thought the mes­sage from this would be that we actu­al­ly are stressed after being told see­ing dif­fer­ences is abnor­mal, then see­ing a difference.



  14. Venkat on November 29, 2007 at 11:47

    Laugh­ing out loud real­ly helps..

    Thanks for those laughs



  15. Alvaro on November 29, 2007 at 11:49

    Read­ing about so many laughs brings me a nice smile :-)



  16. Unkown on December 4, 2007 at 3:53

    umm..that was not very fun­ny because i am so stressed but anyho..i just did some research on stress and LIVE LIFE THE WAY YOU WANT BECAUASE THERE IS ONLY ONE.
    love yall



  17. Unkown on December 4, 2007 at 3:55

    just kid­din that was very fun­ny caroline



  18. Alvaro on December 4, 2007 at 6:48

    Hel­lo unkown, Car­o­line is tak­ing some days off but will trans­mit the feeling…I under­stand how it may have sur­prised you at first, but am hap­py to see it even­tu­al­ly helped you release a bit of tension.

    Thank you for stop­ping by



  19. cynthia hammer on January 19, 2008 at 12:42

    I loved it. I used to work on a dairy farm and every­one loves dol­phins. A won­der­ful pic­ture and I had to laugh.



  20. yahobahne on January 21, 2008 at 7:31

    I saw one dol­phin and one cow. Am I stressed out and need a vacation?



  21. malyn on January 23, 2008 at 11:30

    haha..it almost freak me out..*joke* nice one!



  22. Raoul on February 14, 2008 at 5:56

    I must have zero stress because I saw no dif­fer­ence in the two dol­phins. (g)



  23. Alvaro on February 14, 2008 at 8:49

    Raoul, that’s strange. You did­n’t see 2 cows :-)



  24. whisky on February 17, 2008 at 7:43

    I think I need to post a link to that in my jour­nal. All of human­i­ty should take that test.



  25. Alvaro on February 17, 2008 at 10:00

    And not just human­i­ty. What would a third dol­phin see in that picture…



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