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Stress improves this system, which helps you not get sick.
What is the immune system?
Long term stress can reduce function in this system that keeps you from getting sick.
What is the immune system?
These two things INCREASE during the stress response.
What is breathing and heart rate?
The major hormone involved in kicking off the stress response?
What is "adrenaline?"
A reaction to change.
What is "stress?"
Stress improves this system that helps you run faster and lift heavy things.
What is the muscular system?
Constant stress without rest/a break can put the body in "shutdown mode," also known as the _____ response.
What is the "freeze" response?
This also increases, helping prepare you to run fast or fight back.
What is muscle tension?
Three major brain sections involved in processing.
What is the survival brain, emotional brain, and thinking/reasoning/logical brain?
When stressed, people do 1 (or more) of these 3 things...
Stress improve this system, which helps you breath and pump blood throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Unmanaged stress can result in these common PHYSICAL conditions.
What is heart disease and diabetes?
These system shut down, giving it's energy to other organs.
What is digestion?
Section of the brain responsible to involuntary body stuff (i.e. breathing, circulation, digestion, etc.).
What is the survival brain?
Stress that happens all the time, that DOES NOT significantly disrupt life stuff?
What is "everyday stress?"
Stress releases this hormone that encourages you to connect with others and seek support. (Known as the "cuddle hormone.")
What is oxytocin?
Unmanaged stress can cause these common MENTAL conditions.
What is anxiety and depression?
This is the primary fuel for the stress response.
What is glucose/blood sugar/carbs?
Section of the brain is unique to mammals, responsible for emotion and learning, and categorizes things as pleasure/good or pain/bad.
What is the emotional brain?
Stress reactions that significantly impact every day life.
What is "traumatic stress?"
What is memory and alertness?
This part of the brain doesn't work when someone is actively stressed.
What is the cerebral neocortex/logical/reasoning brain?
What is dilate/get bigger?
The structure of the brain that "sounds the alarm," and kicks off the stress repsonse.
What is the amygdala?
Things we can do to manage the affects of stress.
What are "coping strategies?"