Stress
The physiological fight or flight response triggered when the crash phone rings.
What is stress response?
Trauma caused by hearing about or processing others' distressing emergency calls.
What is Vicarious Trauma?
Emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged work-related stress.
What is burn out?
Mental, emotional, and physical limits to help put your needs first such a asking for help or delegating
What are healthy boundaries?
It's 0300 on your 3rd Monster and you just said Good morning" to the coffee machine.
What is Mids?
Long term stress caused by weeks of exercises, inspections, or high operational tempo.
What is chronic stress?
Feeling helpless, decease job satisfaction, feeling numb, feeling overwhelmed, and just inability to feel pleasure.
What are warning signs of compassion fatigue?
The burnout symptoms of feeling detached, highly cyncical, or sarcastic about daily CP duties.
What is depersonalization (or cynicism)?
Friends, family, colleagues, and others who can provide support to me after a stressful day at work
What is a support system?
The Giant speaker that sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher to everyone outside.
What is the Giant Voice?
Positive motivating type of stress that sharpens your focus during a critical brief.
What is Eustress?
Intrusive mental images or dreams of a traumatic base incident you only handled over the phone.
What are flashbacks (or nightmares)?
The authorized absence you should take to reset. even if mids are short-staffed.
What is leave?
Managing time in one's life to find a happy median with responsibilities.
What is life balance?
The weather warning that pauses flight line operations but still prompts 50 calls asking, "Is PT cancelled?"
What is Lightning within 5?
A simple technique of slow controlled breathing used to lower your heart rate at the console.
What is breathing exercise (box breathing, tactical breathing)?
Withdrawing from unit social events or avoiding friends to save what little emotional energy you have left.
What is isolation (or social withdrawal)?
The physical head pains that can strike mid-way through a 12-hour shift.
What are headaches?
Paying attention to thoughts, feelings, and interactions with others in oneself to gain awareness.
What is self-awareness? (mindfulness, journaling, meditation)
The base recall metric eternally stuck at 99.8% because one Airmen went camping off-grid.
What is 100% Accountability?
The primary stress hormone that disrupts sleep patterns.
What is cortisol?
Using highly dark or cynical humor as an emotional shield to keep from feeling the weight of a bad situation.
What is a coping mechanism?
Healthy limits set to protect your peace, like muting work group chats on your off-days.
What are boundaries?
Millions of people down load these to train the brain to focus in the moment and guide you through meditation.
What are mindfulness apps? Some good examples are ReSound GN, Calm, Headspace etc?
What is an OPREP? (or HHQ message)