TRUE: Getting enough sleep, and eating healthy, and exercising on a day to day basis can reduce stress.
Learning to organize your time.
Time-management
Activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
Exercise
Any organized activity in which people work out as a group
Group Exercise
Mindful breathing can help reduce stress.
TRUE: The more you practice, the better you will become at reducing stress.
Anything that causes stress, in day to day life
Stressor
Something you will make outlining all of the things that you need to complete.
To-do list
Group Therapy
You should talk to someone if you are stressed and possibly want to harm yourself.
TRUE: talking to a friend or trusted adult can help to keep you safe.
Stress associated with long term problems that are beyond a person's control
Chronic Stress
To stop doing something for a short period of time.
Take a break.
Stress can save your life.
TRUE: Think about the amygdala response in a threatening situation.
This response refers to involuntary physiological changes that happen in the body and mind when a person feels threatened. This response exists to keep people safe, preparing them to face, escape, or hide from danger.
Fight, Flight, or Freeze
One of the most commonly named coping skills amongst 7th grade students.
Listening to music.
Coping mechanisms can be used repeatedly and reduce stress with the same effect.
FALSE: Sometimes you need to use different coping skills at different times for the best effect.
A physical reaction the results from stress rather than an injury or illness
Psychosomatic Response
To speak or write to someone because you need support or advice from them. One of the most difficult things to do.
Ask for help.