ANGER
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WHY THINGS HURT
THANKSGIVING POTPOURRI
100

This emotion is linked to increased pain, anxiety and depression.

What is anger?

100

Habits and practices that are conducive to sleeping well on a regular basis.

What is Sleep Hygiene?

100

This is a natural human response that prompts us to address challenges and threats in our lives. The way we respond to it, however, makes a big difference to our overall wellbeing.

What is stress?

100

Pain is made worse by this.

What is fear?

100

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this traditional Thanksgiving dessert was created in 2010 in Ohio. It weighed in at 3,699 pounds, making it the world's largest.

What is a pumpkin pie?

200

Anger can have this effect on blood pressure and heart rate.

What is increasing/worsening it?

200

Sleep cycles include: N1, N2, N3 and this other cycle.

What is REM sleep?

200

These are strategies people use to manage stressful situations.

What are coping skills?

200

This is a physiological reaction to a perceived threat that increases our chances of survival in threatening situations. 

What is the Fight-or-Flight Response?

200

This state has long been the "turkey capital" of the U.S., consistently ranking #1 in turkey production, raising 40-42 million turkeys every year.

What is Minnesota?

300

True or False: Anger can be a good thing.

What is TRUE? (It can give you a way to express negative feelings or motivate you to find solutions to problems.)

300

This kind of light stimulates the brain, leading to difficult sleep.

What is blue light?

300

Stress can have this effect on your chronic pain.

What is make it worse? (or increase it)

300

This is an exaggerated negative focus toward actual or expected pain.

What is Pain Catastrophizing?

300

This NFL football team has never played a game on Thanksgiving Day.

Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?

400

This is an illustration of how although anger can be easy to see, other emotions can be hidden "beneath the surface".

What is the Anger Iceberg?

400

Sleeping on this side of your body promotes digestion and the natural movement of food and waste through the GI tract.

What is the left side?
400

This hormone affects several aspects of your body and mainly helps regulate your body's response to stress.

What is cortisol?

400
One of the differences between acute pain and chronic pain is this.

1. Acute pain is sudden and intense. Chronic pain is persistent and typically lasts longer than 3 months.

2. Acute pain is caused by physical injury or illness. Chronic pain can continue even after the injury or illness has healed or resolved, or it can even occur when there has been no injury at all.

400

This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

The Cycle of Anger includes several steps, beginning with this, and ending with the Behavioral Response.

What is the Triggering Event?
500

Generally speaking, we spend this amount or percentage of our lives asleep.

What is 1/3 or 33%?

500
According to the American Psychological Association, the average stress level of adults in the U.S. in 2015 was this number, on a scale of 1-10.

What is 5.1?

500

These are distributed widely in the brain, the spinal cord, on peripheral neurons and in the digestive tract. When opioids bind to them, it can lead to pain relief and feelings of pleasure.

What are opioid receptors?

500

According to a 2017 survey of Americans, this is the best part of Thanksgiving.

What are leftovers?

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