Managing Stress and Coping With Loss

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Managing Stress and Coping With Loss

• Chapter 4

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Stress and Your Health

• Stress the bodys and minds response to a
  demand
• Stressor any situation that puts a demand on
  the body or mind.
• Types of Stressors
• Environmental pollution, noise, natural
  disasters
• Biological illness, disability, injury
• Thinking taking a test
• Behavioral not enough sleep or exercise
• Life Change death of a loved one, getting
  married

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Physical Response to Stress

• Fight-or-Flight Response
• Body provides you with energy, reflexes and
  strength to respond to a stressor
• Epinephrine released (adrenaline) prepares body
  for quick action
• Breathing increases, more oxygen in body
• Heart beats faster, increases blood flow
• Muscles tense up
• Pupils in eyes get wider
• Digestion stops (unnecessary activity)
• Blood sugar rises, more fuel for fighting or
  running

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Eustress vs. Distress

• Eustress
• Positive stress that energizes you
• Feel alert and lively
• Confident and in control
• Distress
• Negative stress that can make a person sick or
  keep a person from reaching a goal
• Nervous, forgetful, confused

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Long Term Stress

• Can cause a wide range of stress-related diseases
• Weaken immune system colds
• Cause tension headaches
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Ulcers
• Depression, anxiety disorder

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General Adaptation Syndrome

• A model that describes the relationship between
  stress and disease
• 3 Stages
• Alarm Stage
• Resistance Stage
• Exhaustion Stage

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Alarm Stage

• Body and mind become alert
• Fight or flight response
• All of your bodys effort goes into responding to
  the demand
• Headaches, stomachaches, difficulty sleeping and
  anxiety

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Resistance Stage

• If stress continues
• Your body becomes more resistant to disease and
  injury than normal
• Cope with added stress, only limited time

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Exhaustion Stage

• Your body cannot take the resistance to the
  stressor any more
• Exhaustion sets in
• Heart may suffer
• Immune system can
• no longer fight illness

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Dealing With Stress

• What stresses are you encountering?
• Tests
• Sports
• Turnabout date
• Boyfriend/girlfriend
• Family
• How do you deal with them?
• Exercise?
• Read a book, write a poem?
• Watch a movie? Call a friend?
• Play videogames?

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Exercise Regularly, Get Enough Rest, Eat Right

• Keep you fit and helps relieve tension
• Tension physical effect of stress marked by
  straining of muscles
• 9 Hours of sleep every night
• Can lead to exhaustion illness
• Need vitamins, minerals, and energy to deal with
  everyday demands
• Helps with immune system

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Relaxation Techniques

• Breathing Exercises
• Deep breathing, completely filling lungs with air
  instead of shallow breaths
• More oxygen to body, better functioning
• Calming effect, heart rate slows down, blood
  pressure drops
• Comfortable position, close eyes and concentrate
  on your breathing
• Inhale slowly, exhale slowly, 15 minutes

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Learn To Relax

• Tension-Releasing Exercises
• Tense muscles in one part of body
• Then relax them and move to another muscle group
  and repeat
• Combine with deep breathing exercises
• Listen to music, read a book

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Build Resiliency

• Resiliency ability to recover from illness,
  hardship and other stressors
• Optimistic
• Struggle less and succeed more
• Asset a skill or resource that can help you
  reach a goal
• Ex. Support, Social skills, Positive values
• Can be improved on

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Managing Your Time

• Not having enough time is a common stressor
• Prioritize is to arrange items in order of
  importance
• Know and Set your limits
• Make A Schedule
• Priorities first be realistic prepare for
  problems make time to relax do it

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Grieving Process

• Denial
• Refuses to believe the loss occurred
• Anger
• Lose control, blame yourself or others
• Bargaining
• Avoiding what is true
• Depression
• Natural and important, shouldnt last for days
• Acceptance
• Learn how to live with a loss, still painful

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Suicide

• Suicide the act of intentionally taking ones
  own life
• 5th leading cause of death in people between ages
  15-24
• Most dont really want to die
• Helpless about how to end their emotional pain

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Suicide

• Never a solution, other ways to deal
• Suicide does not happen without warning. People
  who have attempted it often asked for help in an
  indirect way
• Use of alcohol and drugs impairs judgments and
  can lead to suicide
• Any talk or mention should not be taken lightly

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Warning Signs for Suicide

• Feeling Hopeless
• Withdrawing from family and friends
• Neglecting basic needs
• Experiencing loss of energy
• Taking more risks
• Using alcohol and drugs
• Giving away personal things

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Suicide

• Not a solution to temporary problems
• It is permanent, cannot go back and change their
  mind
• Remaining silent can only cause isolation and
  further withdrawal from daily life

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Words That Warn

• I wish I were dead
• I just want to go to sleep and never wake up
• I wont be a problem for you much longer
• I wont have to put up with this much longer
• This pain will be over soon
• Nothing matters

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Help

• Take all talk of suicide seriously
• Tell your friend that suicide is not the answer
• Change negative thoughts into positive ones
• Dont keep a secret