Stress Management

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Stress Management
Koshish
A group of Clinical Psychologists
Dev Sanskriti VishwaVidyalaya Gaytrikunj,
Shantikunj Haridwar, UttaraKhand
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Stress

• Stress The human reaction to events in our
  environment
• Stress as wear and tear on the body

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Aspects of Stress

• Positive,
• Negative,

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Two streams of stress

• Positive Stress
• Getting into college
• Getting engaged
• Winning the lottery

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• Negative Stress
• Difficult work environment
• Overwhelming sights and sounds
• Threat of personal injury

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TYPES OF STRESS

• General Stress
• Cumulative Stress
• Acute Traumatic Stress
• Post Traumatic Stress

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• General Stress
• Everyone has this kind of stress
• It resolves itself within a day or two
• No intervention is necessarily required

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• Cumulative Stress
• Stress builds up in your body
• It becomes more difficult to alleviate your
  symptoms
• You may have more serious physical symptoms
• You may have more serious mental anguish

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• Acute Traumatic Stress
• Critical Incident Stress
• Produces considerable psychological distress
• Abnormal reaction to normal events

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• Post Traumatic Stress
• Severe stress produced by severe psychological
  trauma
• Created by unresolved Critical Incident Stress
• Produces lasting changes

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Stressors in Present Time

• Poor time management
• Mal-adjustment,
• Less capacity to deal effectively,
• Competition,
• Demands,

• Modernization,
• Family Environment,
• Socio-economic status,

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Stages of Stress Syndrome

• Stage I - Alarm Reaction

• Stage II Stage of adaptation

• Stage III Stage of Exhaustion

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• Alarm Reaction
• fight or flight
• Decreasing effect of immune system

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• Stage of Adaptation
• Negative effect of stress continuation
• Lack of physical strength

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• Stage of Exhaustion
• Stress persists for a long time
• The bodys resistance may be reduced or collapse
  quickly
• Psychosomatic disorder

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Negative effect of stress symptoms

• Dry mouth
• Cool skin
• Cold hands and feet
• Increased sweating
• Rapid breathing
• Faster heart rate
• Tense muscles
• Feelings of nausea
• Butterflies in your stomach
• Diarrhea
• A desire to urinate

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Long Term Physical Stress Symptoms

• Insomnia
• Change in Appetite
• Sexual disorders
• Aches and pains
• Frequent colds
• Feelings of intense and tiredness
• Prone to illness

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BEHAVIORAL STRESS SYMPTOMS

• Yawning
• Talking too fast
• Talking too loud
• Fiddling
• Twitching
• Nail biting
• Grinding teeth
• Drumming fingers
• Pacing

• Over reacting
• Emotional
• Defensive
• Irritable
• Irrational
• Defensive
• Hostile
• Critical
• Aggressive

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Effective cognitive symptoms

• By reducing your effectiveness
• Making you accident prone
• Causing you to be forgetful
• Causing you to be very negative
• You may neglect your appearance
• You may make poor judgments
• Causing you to make more mistakes
• Increasing your absenteeism

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Effective cognitive symptoms

• not make good decisions
• motor skills are affected
• no longer enjoy your work
• attention span may be affected
• negative thoughts
• self confidence will suffer
• difficulty concentrating
• positive energy is consumed

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Essence of healthy living

• Examine your diet
• Balance salt
  intake
• Lower your intake of refined sugars and
  carbohydrates
• Lower your caffeine intake

• Add to your diet
• Vegetables
• Fruits
• Complex Carbohydrates
• Vitamins
• Water

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Tips of healthy living

• Rest
• Continuous rest for min. six hours

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• Exercise
• At least 15 min. daily
• break a sweat,

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Sharing

• Someone who is trustworthy- family members/
  friends

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• Make an increased effort to organize your life
• Ask for help
• Delegate things when you need to

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• Learn to manage your anger
• Anger affects your health
• Anger causes you to over react to many situations

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HEALTY LIVING

• To control over-expectation
• Rethink

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Playing Therapy

• Fill your life with fun things to do!!!!
• Grow your sense of humor!!!!

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HEALTHY LIVING

• Take charge of your life.
• Act appropriately
• Be balance in your life

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Avoid

• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Marijuana
• Medicines Pills

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HEALTHY LIVING

• Relaxing needs to be part of your daily routine.

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HEALTHY LIVING

• RELAAAAAAX

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HEALTHY LIVING

• RELAAAAAAX

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HEALTHY LIVING

• RELAAAAAAX

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Yoga

• Pranayam
• Meditation
• Shavasana
• Prayer

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Music therapy

• Light melodious music,

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Colour Therapy

• Yellow
• Orange
• Red
• Purple
• Green
• Blue
• Brown
• Violet
• Black
• White

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STRESS MANAGEMENT

• Love all-serve all,
• help ever-hurt never
• Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya
• Gaytrikunj, Shantikunj, Hardwar,
• UttaraKhand, India
• www.dsvv.org

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STRESS MANAGEMENT

• Questions?????