What is Stress?
Depression
A feeling of emptiness and sadness that ends up affecting the way you think, act, sleep,and take care of yourself
Stress
A physical and mental response to a challenging or threatening situation.
Anorexia Nervos
An eating disorder characterized by a refusal to eat, a distorted body image, and an intense fear of being fat
Bulimia Nervosa
An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging
Catastrophe
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Self injury
An unhealthy way to cope with emotions, stress, or traumatic events
Is stress good or bad?
Both. eustress is good. distress is bad. Short term stress helps us grow
alarm response
First stage of Selye's general adaptation syndrome to stress; involves increasing activity of the sympathetic nervous system, speeding up heart rate, blood pressure, and releasing adrenaline.
Sadness
Normal response to an unpleasant event to ones life
stage of resistance
Second stage of the GAS, during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with a stressor.
stage of exhaustion
The body has depleted itself of body energy and immunity during which General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) stage?
Suicide
The intentionally killing of oneself
Cutting
The use of a sharp object to intentionally cut or scratch ones body deep enough to bleed
Fight or Flight Response
a primitive response that quickly increases heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol
distress
bad stress, negative consequences to which we must adapt and can lead to a stress reaction
eustress
good stress, positive consequences to which we must adapt and that can lead to a stress reaction
goal of stress management
not completely eliminate but rather learn to manage stress to grow to full potential
Stressor
stimulus something that cause stress, or has the potential to elicit stress/fight or flight response