DISTRESS OR DE-STRESS

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DISTRESS OR DE-STRESS

• BECOME CONSCIOUS OF IT.
• -It has its own language appears in the way we
  talk how we feel and comes through in our
  attitudes responses tone
• -WE ALL VARY IN OUR CAUSES OF STRESS.

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CAUSES

• WAY AND STYLE WE EARN OUR LIVINGS.
• DYNAMICS OF INTERPERSONAL DEALINGS, PARTICULARLY
  MISCONCEPTIONS.
• INTERNAL PROCESSES MEANING OUR ATTITUDES,
  BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS. REACTING PERSONALLY,
  EMOTIONALLY DEPLETES ONES ENERGY.

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GAS A RESPONSE TO STRESS

• (GENERALIZED ADAPTATION SYNDROME)
• CONSISTS OF 3 STAGES
• Alarm (Emotional Arousal)
• Resistance (Physiological Efforts to Resist or
  Adapt)
• Exhaustion (Depletion of Energy Stores)
• Caution This does not explain how any one
  person perceives and reacts to a stressor.

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Stress Differences

• Might depend more on the COGNITIVE primary and
  secondary appraisals of the situation.
• What are primary and secondary appraisals?

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SOURCES OF STRESS

• CONFLICTING MOTIVES
• UNPREDICTABILITY AND LACK OF CONTROL
• CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOURCES
• APPROACH/AVOIDANCE SITUATIONS

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DE-STRESS YOUR LIFE

• STEPS TO TRANSFORMING THE SELF

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DE-STRESS STEP 1

• 1. Identify Your Life Goals
• -What experiences do I wish to have while I am
  here?
• -How do I want this place and myself to be
  different when I leave?
• Therefore, know your purpose keep your dreams
  alive. Write them down and stick them all over
  the place. Keeps you motivated.

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DE-STRESS STEP 2

• FREEING UP YOUR TIME
• Make others part of the process.
• Use the dayplanner! Schedule in everyones
  activities. Determine how time can be saved and
  still your family, significant others and self
  happy.

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DE-STRESS STEP 3

• Omit unnecessary activity! Whats really
  important on your to do list? Learn to create
  a Not to do List. (i.e. Im not going to run
  around trying to make everyone happy, so Ill
  feel happy Im not going to rewrite my notes
  every night just because it seems like the best
  thing to do Im not going to keep live plants)
• Most important activities should only be those
  that directly affect your achieving your life
  goals.

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DE-STRESS STEP 4

• Practice and rehearse saying no. Practice the
  steps it will take you to turn down someone
  because youre too busy. Practice saying no.

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DE-STRESS STEP 5

• Taking Control not always possible when dealing
  with outside pressures. But, you can control how
  you deal internally.

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REMEDIES

• Understand what stress is and what causes it for
  YOU.
• Know thyself admit to how stress affects you.
• Acquire skills to combat stress in daily life
• Short term breathing, 5 min. mental vacation,
  stretching. Long-term requires personal
  development and new quests.