Stress Response
The stage the "fight or flight" occurs
Alarm Stage
This stress is perceived within your coping abilities
Eustress (positive)
Getting hurt or being sick
An example of a Biological stressor
a form of therapy that focuses on how a person’s thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect their feelings and behaviors.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Stress effects this system by intensifies the chronic pain of arthritis and other joint disorders. It also produces tension-type headaches, caused by the tightening of the muscles in the neck and scalp
Musculoskeletal system
In this stage the body begins to shut down
Exhaustion
This stress is perceived outside of your coping abilities
Distress (negative)
Environmental Stress
Crowd noise, yelling
forms of treatment that are particularly helpful for people who tend to carry stress in their muscles and joints.
Therapeutic massage, hydrotherapy, and bodywork
Chronic stress affects this system and increases a person's risk of getting an infectious illness.
Immune system
The adrenaline is still being secreted, but not as much
Resistance Stage
occurs as a result of a change of routine
Acute stress
An example of a Cognitive (thinking) Stressor
These help to control anxiety and depression as well as treat such physical symptoms of stress
Medications
The effects of chronic stress on this system include diarrhea, constipation, bloating, and irritable bowel syndrome.
gastrointestinal system
Rapid heart rate, increased breathing, muscle tension occur here
Alarm Stage
As a result of your job or moving frequently
Chronic
death in the family, move to another town/school
An example of a Life stressor
these can help persons with stress-related disorders to recognize and activate the body's own capacities for self-healing
Naturopathic recommendations
Sudden stress effects this system by increasing heart rate, but also causes the arteries to narrow, which may block the flow of blood to the heart.
cardiovascular system
What are the 3 stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome
Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion
the collective physiological and emotional responses to any stimulus that disturbs an individual’s homeostasis
stress
stimulus or event that provokes a stress response in an organism.
Stressor
approaches that emphasize sensory pleasure are suggested for severely stressed people who lose their capacity to enjoy life
Aromatherapy , pet therapy, humor therapy, music therapy
The physical effects of stress hormones on this system include interference with memory and learning. Acute stress interferes with short-term memory, although this effect goes away after the stress is resolved.