3. • Stress: body and mind’s response to a demand
• Stressor: anything that puts a demand on the mind or
body
What is Stress?
4. • Environmental Stressors are things in your physical
environment. Ex: pollution, crowding, loud noise, natural
disasters
• Biological Stressors are things that are hard on your body
to participate in activities. Ex: having an
illness, disability, or injury
• Thinking Stressors are mental challenges. Ex: taking a
test
Stressors
5. • Behavioral Stressors are unhealthy behaviors. Ex: not
getting enough sleep, drugs, alcohol.
• Life Change Stressors are major changes whether
negative or positive. Ex: marriage, death of a loved one.
Stressors
6. • Fight-or-Flight: Your body releases epinephrine to
prepare your body for quick action
• Positive Stress is called eustress. It makes you feel alert.
• Negative stress is called distress. It makes you feel
nervous or distracted.
Response to Stress
7. • General Adaptation Syndrome
• Alarm Stage: Headaches, Trouble sleeping
• Resistance Stage: Your body becomes more resistant to
disease and injury
• Exhaustion Stage: Organs like your heart can suffer and
your immune system shuts down.
Long Term Stress
9. • Taking deep breaths brings more oxygen to the body.
• Muscle Tension
• What are some other things you can do to relax?
Relaxing
10. • Resiliency: the ability to recover from
illness, hardship, and other stressors.
• Asset: a skill or resource that can help you reach a goal
• Resilient people build strong support systems by asking
for help.
Resiliency
11. • Prioritize your goals
• Learn to say No
• Keep a schedule
• Don’t overload yourself
• Plan for fun activities
Time Management
12. • What are some ways to prevent stress? What are some
ways to help relieve stress?
Bell Ringer
13. • Loss can cause stress.
• Use the tension relieving activities we talked about on
Monday
Coping With Loss
14. • Grieve: to express deep sadness because of loss
• Stages of Grief:
• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance
Grieving Process
15. • Wake: ceremony that is held to allow family and friends
to view or watch over the deceased person before the
funeral
• Funeral: ceremony in which a deceased person is buried
or cremated
• Memorial Service: ceremony to remember the deceased
person
16. • Get rest and relax, but stick to routines
• Share memories and thoughts about the deceased
• Express feelings by crying or writing in a journal
• Do not place blame, it only avoids the truth about the loss
Help for dealing with loss
17. • Show your support by helping with small errands
• Let them know you are there for them
• Encourage them by telling them they are strong
• If person seems depressed and is avoiding friends and
family members, tell a trusted adult
Help for dealing with loss
18. • Suicide: act of intentionally taking one’s own life
• Most people who consider suicide only do so for a brief
period in their life
• Most people who attempt and fail are grateful to be alive
• Suicide does not happen without warning
• Drugs and Alcohol can impair judgment and put people at
risk to act on suicidal thoughts
Suicide
20. • Feeling hopeless
• Withdrawing from family and friends
• Neglecting basic needs
• Experiencing loss of energy
• Taking more risks
• Using alcohol and drugs
• Giving away personal things
Warning Signs
21. • Take talk of suicide seriously
• Tell your friends suicide is not the answer
• Change negative thoughts into positive thoughts
• Don’t keep a secret if your friend is thinking of suicide
Giving/Getting Help
Editor's Notes
So what is stress? Stress is the body and mind’s response to a demand, which is caused by a stressor. A stressor can be anything from a test to being sick.
Everyone needs a textbook. Turn to page 79 and we are going to do the Life changes stress table. Look at the table and see which scenarios apply to you and add up your score. If your score is less than 100 your life has changed little. Between 100-200, your life has changed moderately. Over 200 your life has changed significantly.
Epinephrine is a hormone formerly called adrenaline. Your breathing speeds up, which helps get more oxygen throughout your body. Your heart beats faster, which increases the flow of blood to carry more oxygen to your muscles. Your muscles tense up, which prepares you to move quickly. The pupils of your eyes get wider, which allows extra light for more sensitive vision. Your digestion slows down, because digestion is an unnecessary activity during an emergency. Blood sugar increases to provide more fuel for fighting or running.Be optimistic about stress. Concentrate on what you can control.
The book recommends 9 hours of sleep a night.
Why do we need more oxygen? More oxygen helps the muscles and organs function more efficiently. Start by tensing the muscles in your shoulders, now relax them. You can do that with all the muscle groups in your body until you are more relaxed
Examples of Loss: death of a loved one, divorce of parent’s, death of a pet, breakup with girlfriend/boyfriend, or moving away from your home. You could develop tension headaches, or you may just be irritable.
Allowing yourself to grieve is very important because grieving helps you heal from the pain of a loss. Not everyone goes through the stages in the same order, and some people don’t even experience all of the stages.Denial: this can’t be happening to me!Anger: Why me? This isn’t fairBargaining: I’d do anything to have them backDepression: There is no hope. I just want to be aloneAcceptance: Its going to be OK
Wake is like what we may call a visitation. This can help family and friends accept the death. Also it gives them opportunity to come together to comfort each other emotionally.Cremate is to burn the body into ashes. Funerals are used to honor the family member and pay tribute to them.Memorial services are like wakes but can occur a long time after the death. Vietnam war memorial
Why should a person not be afraid to show emotion, such as crying, when faced with a loss?
Stop and think about the consequences before you actDon’t use permanent solutions to solve temporary problemsTalk to a friend or trusted adult
