This document discusses stress and the body's stress response. It defines three stress responses: fight, flight, or freeze. The fight or flight response prepares the body to either confront or flee from a perceived danger through increased heart rate, rapid breathing, pale or flushed skin, dilated pupils, trembling, and numbness. The freeze response occurs when neither fighting nor fleeing seem possible, which could help by keeping one hidden from a predator or signaling that one is not a threat. The document instructs readers to demonstrate their understanding of these responses by depicting their own response to a stressful situation through drawing, comics, or writing.

1. Stress
Management

2. Stress Test
Complete the Stress Test in front of you.
Do you notice any patterns with you and stress?

3. What is Stress?
4 red flags of anxiety and depression
What is the first thing that pops into
your head when you hear the word
stress?
What the different types of stress
responses?
We all talk about stress, but what is it?
Define it with a partner
What happens inside our body when
we go into these responses?

6. Fight, Flight, Or Freeze
Stress Response What is it?
Fight or Flight
The term ‘fight-or-flight’ represents the
choices that our ancestors had when faced
with a danger in
their environment. They could either fight or
flee. In either case, the physiological and
psychological
response to stress prepares the body to
react to the danger.
Freeze
In situations where neither overcoming nor
escaping the threat seems possible, we
might find ourselves overcome with terror
to the point that we can’t act at all.
Ancestrally, this could have been helpful by
keeping us hidden from a predator, or by
signaling to a potential foe that we are not a
threat to them.

7. Fight, Flight, or Freeze
How our body responds…..
Rapid heartbeat and breathing
Increases to provide energy
and oxygen to the bod.
Pale or flushed skin
Blood flows to muscles, your
head and your brain. Less
blood to surface area
Dilated Pupils
More light into your eyes, for
better vision
Trembling
Muscles become tense and
primed for action
Feeling Numb
Blood goes toward your bigger
muscles, your extremities go
numb

8. Your Assignment!
Demonstrate your understanding of the Stress Response of Flight, Fight, or Freeze by
drawing a picture, a comic strip, or writing a short story that ownlines your own personal
response (or what you expect your response might be) to a stressful situation.
Some examples might include:
Public speaking,
Making a large error at work.
Doing something in front of a lot of peers/people