1. Journal #17  Explain the difference between a Type A personality and a Type B personality.  Which type best describes you? Or do you believe you are a combination of both?  What are some reasons you believe you have categorized your self in a particular personality type?

2. ANALYZING THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS OF STRESS AND ANXIETY April 24, 2012

3. What Is Stress?  The body’s and mind’s reaction to everyday demands or threats; they may be real or imaginary.  It can be useful or harmful; energizing or exhausting.  Positive or negative depending on how it is perceived, managed, and used.  Stress Tolerance- amount of stress one can handle before you are unable to deal.  Distress: Negative Stress  Eustress: positive stress

5. Anxiety  An uneasy feeling or the act of worrying about what may happen.  Sometimes confused with depression.

6. Stressors: person, place, event or situation that places a demand on the mind and body  Biological: biochemical imbalances, mental or physical illnesses, and injuries.  Cognitive: the way you perceive a situation.  Environmental: poverty, pollution or natural disasters.  Personal Behavior: negative reactions in the body and mind due to drugs and/or alcohol.  Life: situations that happen at home, school, and in relationships.

7. How Do I Know?  Not to be confused with depression or other mental illnesses.  Physical: headache, sweating, dry mouth, fatigue, tightness in chest.  Emotional: impatience, preoccupation, lost of interest, nightmares  Behavioral: carelessness, decreased productivity, withdrawal, loss of appetite.

8. I am Whatever You Say I am  Type A Personality- a competitive, high achieving personality type.  Type B Personality- laid back, non-competitive personality.  Hardy Personality-able to stay healthy despite major or traumatic stressors.

9. Should You Stay or Should you Go?  3 Stages from the reaction of Stress  GAS-General adaption syndrome 1. Alarm Stage: High Alert 2. Resistant Stage: Fighting Back 1. Exhaustion/Fatigue Stage: Loss of Energy

10. Alarm: Fight or Flight  Muscles Tense  Increased heart rate  Breathing increase  Pupils dilate  More blood sent to muscles  Increased sweating  Increased blood pressure

11. Resistance: Survivor  The body tries to repair itself from the stressful event and return back to normal state.  Body functions at a higher than normal level.

12. Exhaustion/Fatigue  Results in a tired feeling.  Energy is depleted.  Body returns to normal if the stressor is no longer there.  Body goes back to alarm stage if stress is not resolved.

13.  Groups of 3 (Pick 3 Scenarios)  Person #1: Pretend you are in this situation and explain how you would feel and respond.  Person #2: Using the ACT technique and your notes to respond and give advise to person #1  Person #3: Was healthy advise given? Why or why not? What are some things you would change?  Each person should write at least a paragraph worth of responses.