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Understanding Stress: Types, Effects, and Coping Strategies for a Balanced Life

Stress is the body’s mental, emotional, and physiological response to new or threatening situations. Stressors can be physical, emotional, social, environmental, spiritual, occupational, or mental, and can impact feelings, thoughts, behavior, and physiology. There are two main types of stress: eustress (positive) that adds meaning to life and distress (negative) that can interfere with functioning. Different personality types react differently to stress. Effective stress management techniques include problem-solving, physical activity, relaxation, good nutrition, and altering one’s perception of stressors.

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Understanding Stress: Types, Effects, and Coping Strategies for a Balanced Life

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  1. What is Stress?

  2. STRESS • The mental, emotional and physiological response of the body to any situation that is new, threatening, frightening or exciting

  3. STRESSOR • A STRESS-CAUSING EVENT OR SITUATION

  4. Wellness Dimension Stressors • Physical • Emotional • Social • Environmental • Spiritual • Occupational • Mental

  5. What can stress affect? • Feelings • Thoughts • Behavior • Physiology

  6. Types of Stress • GOOD STRESS • EUSTRESS • Adds meaning to life, encourages pleasure, success in something we couldn’t do before • NEGATIVE STRESS • DISTRESS • Stress that results in negative responses, can interfere with our mental, emotional and physiological limits…we may not function effectively

  7. How can stress contribute to illness?

  8. Personality Types • Type A • Hard-driving, urgent sense of time • Impatient • Competitive • Insecurity over status • Inability to relax • Aggressive, at times hostile • Overly competitive • Higher incidence of heart disease if they express anger and hostility

  9. Type B • Calm, casual, relaxed, easy-going • Take one thing at a time • Do not feel pressured or hurried • Seldom set their own deadlines • More realistic goals set • Not as upset over losing or not attaining a goal

  10. Hardy Personality • Type C • Remains healthy even under extreme stress • Just as highly stressed as Type A, but is not at higher risk for disease • 4 C’s = Challenge, Commitment, Confidence and Control

  11. COPING

  12. Stress Management • Replace stressful life with beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that promote peace, joy and mind-body harmony • Problem-solving coping • Limit or eliminate interaction with stressor • Have confidence in your ability to lesson stress • Be physically active

  13. Let go, give yourself a break • Schedule time effectively • Set priorities • Good nutrition • Relaxation techniques/adequate sleep • Alter your perception of the stressful situation • Change your beliefs and goals

  14. View change as positive • Prepare for stressful events with a plan • Engage in non-stressful activities • Don’t worry about things you cannot control • Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations • Schedule time effectively

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