What does stress mean to you?
What is stress?
Your body’s natural response to a challenging situation good and bad stress
The fight or flight response
STRESSORS = things that trigger stress
Emotional Relationship problems
Economic Money problems
Social Peer pressure
Life crisis Death, Job Loss, Sickness, Divorce
Personality A or B type Anxious Perfectionist
Environmental Extreme weather conditions; pollution
Physical Physical harm – violence, rape
Identifying Stressors
Case study
ASSESSING STRESS LEVELS
# short-term & long-term SIGNS & SYMPTOMS # short-term & long-term
POSITIVE & NEGATIVE STRESS # short-term – beneficial # long-term = bad
How stressed are you? 3 stress tests: Quick assessment Type A personality Depression awareness
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