manage to control yourself from stress

1. Stress Management
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2. Are you St ressed?
 Researchers define
stress as a physical,
mental, or emotional
response to events
that causes bodily or
mental tension.
 Simply put, stress is
any outside force or
event that has an
effect on our body or
mind.
Adrenaline is a
chemical naturally produced
in our body as a response
to stress .

3. STRESS!!!
 Eustress: Good
Stress
– Getting into college
– Getting engaged
– Winning the lottery
 Distress: Stress from
bad sources
– Difficult work
environment
– Overwhelming sights
and sounds
– Threat of personal injury

4. FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
1. General Stress:
– Everyone has this
kind of stress
– It resolves itself
within a day or two
– No intervention is
necessarily required

5. FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
2. Cumulative Stress:
– Stress builds up in your
body
– It becomes more difficult
to alleviate your
symptoms
– You may have more
serious physical
symptoms
– You may have more
serious mental anguish

6. FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
3. Acute Traumatic
Stress:
– Critical Incident Stress
– Produces considerable
psychological distress
– A normal reaction to
abnormal events

7. FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
4. Post Traumatic
Stress:
– Severe stress produced
by severe psychological
trauma
– Created by unresolved
Critical Incident Stress
– Produces lasting
changes

8. General Adaptation
Syndrome
 Stage I - Alarm Reaction
– The “fight or flight” response which
causes you to be ready for physical
activity
 Stage II – Stage of adaptation
– If stress continues, the body adapts to the
stressors it is being exposed to
 Stage III – Stage of Exhaustion
– Stress persists for a long time
– The body’s resistance may be reduced or
collapse quickly

9. Short Term Physical
Stress Symptoms
– Dry mouth
– Cool skin
– Cold hands and feet
– Increased sweating
– Rapid breathing
– Faster heart rate
– Tense muscles
– Feelings of nausea
– Butterflies in your
stomach
– Diarrhea
– A desire to urinate

10. Long Term Physical
Stress Symptoms
– Insomnia
– Change in Appetite
– Sexual disorders
– Aches and pains
– Frequent colds
– Feelings of intense
and long-term
tiredness
– Prone to illness

11. BEHAVIORAL STRESS
SYMPTOMS
 Yawning
 Talking too fast
 Talking too loud
 Fiddling
 Twitching
 Nail biting
 Grinding teeth
 Drumming fingers
 Pacing
 Over reacting
 Emotional
 Defensive
 Irritable
 Irrational
 Defensive
 Hostile
 Critical
 Aggressive

12. PERFORMANCE
STRESS SYMPTOMS
 You may not make good decisions
 Your fine motor skills are affected
 You may no longer enjoy your work
 Your attention span may be affected
 You may have more negative thoughts
 Your self confidence will suffer
 You may have difficulty concentrating
 All of your positive energy is consumed

13. HEALTHY LIVING TO
CONQUER STRESS
 Examine your diet
– Lower your salt
intake
– Lower your intake of
refined sugars and
carbohydrates
– Lower your caffeine
intake
 Add to your diet
– Vegetables
– Fruits
– Complex
Carbohydrates
– Vitamins
– Water

14. HEALTHY LIVING
 Rest:
– Get a minimum of
six hours of
continuous rest
 Exercise:
– At least twenty
minutes, five times
a week
– break a sweat, to
release endorphins

15. HEALTHY LIVING
 Talk things out with
someone you trust -
a family member or
a good friend

16. HEALTHY LIVING
 Make an increased
effort to organize
your life
 Ask for help
 Delegate things
when you need to

17. HEALTHY LIVING
 Learn to manage
your anger
 Anger affects your
health
 Anger causes you
to over react to
many situations

18. HEALTY LIVING
 We get angry often
because someone
did not do what we
thought they should
 Rethink the
situation and learn
to be more flexible

19. HEALTHY LIVING
 Fill your life with fun
things to do!!!!
 Keep your sense of
humor!!!!
 We call it :
PLAY THERAPY

20. HEALTHY LIVING
 Too many people
look for an easy
answer to stress
management by
misusing
 Alcohol
 Drugs
 Marijuana
 Medicines & Pills

21. HEALTHY LIVING
 We all need a
lengthy list of things
that will help us
relax…..
 I love horse back
riding.

22. HEALTHY LIVING
 Relaxing needs to
be part of your daily
routine.

23. HEALTHY LIVING
 RELAAAAAAX