This document discusses stress management. It defines stress and outlines different types of stress including eustress, distress, general stress, cumulative stress, acute traumatic stress, and post-traumatic stress. It describes the physical, behavioral, and performance symptoms of short-term and long-term stress. Finally, it recommends healthy ways to manage stress such as diet, exercise, sleep, social support, relaxation, and avoiding misuse of substances.

1. Stress Management
PRESENTED BY
BABASAB PATIL

2. Stress in students
 Stress: The human
reaction to events in
our environment
 Han Selye defines
stress as wear and tear
on the body

3. STRESS!!!
 Eustress: Good Stress
 Getting into college
 Getting engaged
 Winning the lottery

4. STRESS !!!
 Distress: Stress from bad
sources
 Difficult work environment
 Overwhelming sights and
sounds
 Threat of personal injury

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

9. General Adaptation Syndrome
 Stage I - Alarm Reaction
 The “fight or flight” response which causes you to
be ready for physical activity
 However, it decreases the effectiveness of the
immune system which makes you more
susceptible to illness

10. General Adaptation Syndrome
 Stage II – Stage of adaptation
 If stress continues, the body adapts to the stressors it is
being exposed to
 If the stressor is starvation, the person experiences a
reduced desire for physical activity to conserve energy,
and the absorption of nutrients from any food intake is
maximized

11. General Adaptation Syndrome
 Stage III – Stage of Exhaustion
 Stress persists for a long time
 The body’s resistance may be reduced or collapse quickly
 People who experience long-term stress may have heart
attacks, severe infections, or chronic pain or illness

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. BEHAVIOR STRESS
SYMPTOMS
 These symptoms will have a negative affect on your
performance
 By reducing your effectiveness
 Making you accident prone
 Causing you to be forgetful
 Causing you to be very negative
 You may neglect your appearance
 You may make poor judgments
 Causing you to make more mistakes
 Increasing your absenteeism

16. 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

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

18. HEALTHY LIVING
 Rest:
 Get a minimum of six
hours of continuous
rest

19. HEALTHY LIVING
 Exercise:
 At least twenty
minutes, five times a
week
 break a sweat, to
release endorphins

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

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

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

23. 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

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

25. HEALTHY LIVING
 Take charge of your
life.
 Act appropriately
-don’t simply react to
stressful situations
 Find balance in all that
you do.

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

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

28. HEALTHY LIVING
 Relaxing needs to be
part of your daily
routine.

29. HEALTHY LIVING
 RELAAAAAAX

30. HEALTHY LIVING
 RELAAAAAAX

31. HEALTHY LIVING
 RELAAAAAAX

32. STRESS MANAGEMENT
 COUNSELING
CENTER
Campus Center 225
Phone 386-7122
Web Site at
www.canton.edu

33. STRESS MANAGEMENT
 Questions?????