3. What Is Stress?
• Stress is a feeling that's created when we react
to particular events. It's the body's way of
rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a
tough situation with
focus, strength, stamina, and heightened
alertness.
• Stress is your body's way of responding to any
kind of demand.
4.
5. Forms of stress
• General stress
• Cumulative stress
• Acute traumatic stress
• Post traumatic stress
6. General stress
• Everyone has this kind of
stress
• It resolves itself within a
day or two
• No intervention is
necessarily required.
7. Cumulative stress
• Stress builds up in your
body
• It becomes more
difficult to alleviate your
symptoms
• You may have more
serious physical
symptoms and mental
anguish
8. Acute traumatic stress
• Critical incident stress
• Produces
considerable
physiological distress
• A normal reaction to
abnormal events
9. Post traumatic stress
• Severe stress
produced by severe
physiological trauma
• Created by unresolved
critical incident stress
• Produces lasting
changes
