Stress and Stress Management

  Buying a new car and taking a final exam are more similar than different, as far as your body is concerned.  Prolonged stress can make a person likely to suffer from diseases  The fight or flight reaction only occurred in past eras…it does not happen today.  Whether an event is stressful depends more on the person experiencing it than on the event itself. Pre – Quiz All True / False

  You cannot change the way you react to stress.  Past experiences can help you relax when the same stressor occurs.  All forms of stress are bad and unhealthy  An athlete that performs at a high level puts stress on that athletes body. TRUE / False Cont.

 The term “stress” is used a lot within your world. But, what is stress and how does it truly effect your health? Well there are many different types of stress all of which will effect the same things: Physical and Psychological demands will always occur. What is Stress?

  Eustress – Good forms of stress that allows your body to have a demand and than recover. Bad Stress  Distress – Stress that is perceived as negative by the person receiving the stress.  Chronic Stress – Prolonged stress that is unrelieved that puts a person to the point of exhaustion while damaging health. Good and Bad Stress

 Take a moment to think of a good form of stress you have had in your life. Explain why it was a good form and how it helped you as a person. Take a moment to think of a time when you were battling a form of Chronic Stress. How did it finally end and what can you do to prevent it from happing again? Or can you? Personal Questions/Answer

 Stressor – A specific demand placed on the body Adapt – Change or adjust in order to accommodate new conditions. Perception – meaning given to an event or occurrence based on your previous experience or understanding. Now get out your book turn to page 82 and take the Stress test. Add up points and explain what you might have to do in order to eliminate stress/stressors in your life. Vocab Notes

  Physically and Psychologically a persons body reacts to stress. The nervous system always sets off a chain of reactions to attempt to get the body back to “normal”.  Nervous system sends and receives messages to/from the brain that make a persons body react to a stressor.  Hormonal System – are glands, organs that protect the body. The nervous system is what tells the hormonal system what it needs done to keep the body “normal”.  Hormone –  Gland - How Does Stress Effect the Body and its Systems?

  Immune System – Cells, tissues and organs that protect the body from diseases.  Immunity –  Types of Stress Hormones 1 2 Cont.

  Stress Response - what a person does to a demand or stressor  Stages of a Stress Response 1 – Alarm 2 – Resistance 3 – Recovery/Exhaustion Fight or Flight Response – Stress that makes body to either stand up to stress or to escape it. Page 91 – Life Choice Inventory Take the test on how well you resist stress. Stress Response

  Coping Devices are non-harmful ways to deal with stress. Types of Coping Devices Displacement – Channel Energy to something Else Ventilation – let off steam by expressing feelings to another person. Coping Devices/Defense Mechanisms

  Denial  Fantasy  Projection  Rationalization  Regression  Selective Forgetting  Withdraw Defense Mechanisms self –destructive ways of dealing with stress

  Read Pages 102 and 103 Explain what the placebo effect is. Define from the reading Ethics Quacks Placebo Effect