1. The Stress Response

2. What is Stress?
Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.
The events that provoke stress are called Stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations - everything from outright physical danger to making a class presentation or taking a semester's worth of your toughest subject.
There are 2 kinds of Stress.

3. Eustress
Good Stress.
Stress can also be activated in a milder form at a time when the pressure's on but there's no actual danger - like stepping up to take the foul shot that could win the game, getting ready to go to a big dance, or sitting down for a final exam. A little of this stress can help keep you on your toes, ready to rise to a challenge.

4. Distress
Bad Stress

5. Types of Stress Environmental: Where you live.
Biological: Your body. (Sickness, injury)
Personal Behavior: Drugs, Alcohol, Risky Choices.

6. The 3 Stages of the Stress Response

7. Stage 1: Alarm In Alarm you visually see or perceive the threat.
The Hypothalamus gland in the brain sends a message down to the Adrenal Glands to release the hormone Adrenaline.
Adrenaline causes a number of things to happen to the body to prepare it to either (Fight or Flight).

9. Effects of Adrenaline Increased Heart Rate. Respiration Increases.
Pupils dilate so you can see better.
Glucose is poured into your blood stream so you have extra fuel to act.
The blood leaves places like your stomach and intestine and goes to the arms and legs so you have more oxygen and glucose in your fighting muscles.

10. Stage 2: Resistance In the Resistance Stage you are super-human.
Adrenaline makes you an ultra strong, ultra fast maniac who can’t feel pain.
It is also the time when your body tries to clean the adrenaline out of your body and get back to normal.

11. Superhuman Strength
“I just felt this energy come” : 300lbs footballer lifts car to save the life of truck driver trapped underneath

12. Superhuman Strength
Teen daughters find strength to lift 3,000-pound tractor off father

13. Superhuman Strength
Hero daughter lifts 5,600-pound Jeep after it trapped her dad’s leg
After the truck he was working on fell off the jack, Adam Simmons, a Plymouth, Mass., resident, was caught under the vehicle. Simmons' 22-year-old daughter, Rachael, heard the yell and performed an incredible feat to help her father.

14. Stage 3: Fatigue Your body is exhausted.
You are physically, mentally and emotionally fatigued.