Stress & Stressors
Pathophysiology
Healthy Stress
Unhealthy Stress
100
This is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension that results from adverse or demanding circumstances.
What is unhealthy stress?
100
This part of the brain signals the adrenal glands to produce more stress hormones and then release them into the bloodstream.
What is the function of the Hypothalamus?
100
This is a short lived amount of stress that helps keep you alert and on your toes, ready to rise to a challenge. For example, going to the school’s big dance, writing a final exam, going on your first date with your crush.
What is Eustress (Healthy Stress)?
100
These are examples or signs of stress overload.
What are panic attacks, feeling of being constantly pressured, hassled, and hurried, irritability and moodiness, physical symptoms, such as stomach problems, headaches, or even chest pain, sleeping difficulty?
200
This is proper term for “healthy stress” and “unhealthy stress”.
What is Eustress? What is Distress?
200
Adrenaline and cortisol are examples of something that gets released into our body.
What are the types of stress hormones?
200
This can help you meet daily challenges and motivates you to reach your goals. In fact, it can help you accomplish tasks more efficiently. It can even boost memory.
What is Eustress (Healthy Stress)?
200
Women are twice as likely to experience this type of mental illness than men.
What is depression?
300
This is a good thing because it can motivate you to get things done. Here’s an example: When you feel anxious about an upcoming test, you probably push yourself to study harder, which helps you to do better.
What is minimal anxiety?
300
The biological responses, such as a fast heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure and metabolism are results of this biological process.
What physiological functions in your body get affected by the release of adrenaline and cortisol?
300
These examples prove that some anxiety can be good.
What is motivation? For example: When you feel nervous about an upcoming test, you probably push yourself to study harder, which helps you to do better.
300
This is a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
What is depression?
400
Conflicts with friends and family, juggling homework, exams, after school activities, jobs, and relationships, financial issues, dealing with a bully, major life changes such as the birth of a baby, a divorce, and moving schools/ applying for college are examples of this.
What are examples of stressors?
400
These are part of the cardiovascular system, which open wide to let more blood flow to large muscle groups, putting our muscles on alert and help the pupils dilate to improve our vision.
What are blood vessels?
400
Give words of encouragement. **being nervous for a job interview is normal and is sign of healthy stress.
Your friend Becky is about to go for an interview at White Spot, she is nervous and is stuttering. How can you help Becky?
400
This is characterized by regular episodes of extreme overeating and feelings of loss of control about eating.
What is overeating?
500
14% of this population have more responsibilities than ever before, balancing school with other activities, friends and jobs.
What percentage of Canadian youth experience unhealthy stress on most days?
500
This physiological reaction causes physical changes prepare a person to react quickly and effectively to handle the pressure in the moment.
What is the "fight or flight" response?
500
Nick has been very busy the last two weeks. In those two weeks, he will be writing his 2 final exams, his driving exam and he is going on his first date with Simone. He is overwhelmed but excited. He is experiencing a type of stress.
What is Eustress (health stress)?
500
This tends to develop during the teenage and young adult years, and they are much more common in girls and women; this disorder coexist with psychological and medical issues such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, trouble coping with emotions, and substance abuse.
What is an eating disorder?
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