Stress is the body's response to excessive pressures and demands, manifesting as both negative and positive experiences. Negative stress can lead to various health issues and reflects the mismatch between job demands and worker capabilities, while positive stress provides motivation and urgency for challenging situations. Understanding stressors and their effects is crucial for effective stress management.

1. Stress Management

2. What Is Stress ?
Stress is the reaction you have to excessive pressures or
other types of demand placed upon you. It happens
when you worry that you can’t cope with a current or
future situation.
Sometimes the worry may be about something that
happened in the past and what you should have done
differently.

3. What is Stress ?(cont.)
Stress is the “wear and tear” your mind and body
experience as you attempt to cope with your
continually changing environment.

4. The Stress of Negative Self–Talk
• Pessimistic thinking
• Self-criticism
• Over analysing

5. Negative Stress
Negative stress can contribute to minor ailments such as
headaches, digestive problems, skin complaints, insomnia
and ulcers, to name just a few.
Excessive, prolonged and unrelieved stress can have a
devastatingly harmful and prolonged effect on mental,
physical and spiritual health.

6. Positive Stress
While the word stress has a negative connotation, stress can
also have a positive effect. Positive stress can motivate and
create awareness thus providing the stimulation to cope with
challenging situations.
Positive stress also provides the sense of urgency and
alertness needed for survival when confronting threatening
situations.

7. Physical Symptoms of Stress
• Change in sleep patterns
• Fatigue
• Digestion changes
• Headaches
• Aches and pains
• Indigestion
• Dizziness
• Fainting
• Sweating & trembling
• Tingling hands & feet
• Breathlessness
• Palpitations

8. Behavioral Symptoms of Stress
• Appetite changes - too much or too little
• Eating disorders - anorexia, bulimia
• Increased intake of alcohol & other drugs
• Increased smoking
• Restlessness
• Nail biting

9. Job Stress
• The definition of job stress is the harmful emotional and
physical responses that occur when the requirements of
the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs
of the worker. Job stress is one of the leading causes of
poor health for an individual.
• Job stress is often confused with the normal challenges of
the job, but these concepts are not the same.
Job challenges energize you psychologically and
physically, and it motivates you to learn new skills and
master your job. When a job challenge is met, you feel
relaxed and satisfied.
However, job stress is different. The challenge of the job
has turned into job demands that cannot be realistically
met, relaxation has turned to exhaustion, and that sense
of satisfaction has turned into feelings of stress.
In short, the stage is set for illness, injury, and job failure.

10. Not all the stress you experience
happens at work

11. What Causes Stress
• External Stressors
• Internal Stressors

12. Learn more about the various
forms of stress and how to
eliminate them by following this
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