This document discusses stress, its types, causes, and ways to handle it. It defines stress as the body's reaction to challenging events and distinguishes between acute short-term stress and chronic long-term stress. Acute stress can be exciting in small amounts while chronic stress has detrimental health effects. Stress types include acute episodic stress from daily challenges and chronic stress from long-term grinding stressors like an unhappy marriage. Common stress causes are major life changes, work, relationships, finances, being too busy, family, worry, and unrealistic expectations. The document recommends handling stress through exercise, social support, healthy habits, time management, avoiding additional stressors, relaxation, and assertiveness.

1. K-12
PROGRAM
Health Education
(Stress)

3. • 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.
• It’s a simply a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs
our physical or mental equilibrium. In other
words, it's an omnipresent part of life. A stressful
event can trigger the “fight-or-flight” response,
causing hormones such as adrenaline and
cortisol to surge through the body. A little bit of
stress, known as “acute stress,” can be exciting
—it keeps us active and alert. But long-term, or
“chronic stress,” can have detrimental effects
on health

4. Are all stress are bad?
• No, because it make you to be
aware is a certain situation.
Stress can help you meet daily
challenges and motivates you to
reach your goals. In fact, stress
can help you accomplish tasks
more efficiently. It can even boost
memory.

5. Types of
Stress

6. Acute Stress
Episodic Stress
Chronic Stress

7. ACUTE STRESS
• Acute stress is the most common form of
stress its also know as short term stress.
For just simple emotion that you
experience such as loneliness, jealous,
sadness etch, can cause of acute stress.
• This stress can resolve in an hour or in a
day only.

8. Episodic Stress
• Work place is one of the aspect in
episodic stress by doing the things that
make you stressful everyday without
changes can be classify as an episodic
stress.
• The symptoms of episodic acute stress
are the symptoms of extended over
arousal: persistent tension headaches,
migraines, hypertension, chest pain and
heart disease.

9. Chronic Stress
• Also know as lifetime stress. This
is the grinding stress that wears
people away day after day, year
after year. Chronic stress
destroys bodies, minds and lives.
Most of the people who have this
kind of stress is unhappy married
couple.

10. Cause of
Stress

11. • Major life changes
• Work or school
• Relationship difficulties
• Financial problems
• Being too busy
• Children and family
• Chronic worry
• Pessimism
• Rigid thinking, lack of flexibility
• Negative self-talk
• Unrealistic expectations/Perfectionism
• All-or-nothing attitude

12. How To
Handle Stress

13. • Get moving – by doing exercise
• Connect to others – having time to your friends
• Healthy lifestyle – eat healthy diet/food
• Learn how to say “no”
• Express your feelings instead of bottling them
up
• Relax yourself/Pamper time
• Get Your Rest
• Manage your time
• Avoid people who stress you out
• Take control of your environment
• Be more assertive.

14. References
• Anspaugh DJ, et al. (2011). Coping with and managing
stress. In Wellness: Concepts and Applications, 8th ed.,
pp. 307–340. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Edwards M. (2000) Stress Management for Cancer
Patients: a Self Help Manual, Acorn Publishing.
• Hambly K., Muir A. (1997) Stress Management in
Primary Care, Butterworth Heinemann.
• Handling Stress (1992) The Open University, The Open
University Press
• Weller S. (2000) The Breath Book: 20 Ways to Breathe
Away Stress, Anxiety and Fatigue, Thorsons.

15. Thank
You