Stress
The physiological fight or flight response triggered when the crash phone rings.
What is stress response?
Trauma caused by hearing about or processing others' distressing experiences.
What is Vicarious Trauma?
Emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged work-related stress.
What is burn out?
Mental, emotional, and physical limits to help put your needs first such a asking for help or delegating
What are healthy boundaries?
Handing out treats during a unit visit, only to realize the squadron only likes you for your snacks.
What is Ministry of Presence - or snack evangelism?
Long term stress caused by weeks of exercises, inspections, or high operational tempo.
What is chronic stress?
Feeling helpless, decease job satisfaction, feeling numb, feeling overwhelmed, and just inability to feel pleasure.
What are warning signs of compassion fatigue?
The burnout symptoms of feeling detached, highly cyncical, or sarcastic about daily CP duties.
What is depersonalization (or cynicism)?
Friends, family, colleagues, and others who can provide support to me after a stressful day at work
What is a support system?
When an Airmen starts a sentence with, "Off the record, Chappy . . . " and you internally brace for a wild story.
What is 100% confidentiality?
Positive motivating type of stress that sharpens your focus during a critical brief.
What is Eustress?
Intrusive mental images or dreams of a traumatic base incident you only handled over the phone.
What are flashbacks (or nightmares)?
The authorized absence you should take to reset. even if mids are short-staffed.
What is leave?
Managing time in one's life to find a happy median with responsibilities.
What is life balance?
The sudden, awkward silence that happens the moment you walk into the break room and everyone realizes a Chaplain is standing there.
What is the "Chaplain filter"? (or cleaning up the language)
A simple technique of slow controlled breathing used to lower your heart rate at the console.
What is breathing exercise (box breathing, tactical breathing)?
Withdrawing from unit social events or avoiding friends to save what little emotional energy you have left.
What is isolation (or social withdrawal)?
The physical head pains that can strike mid-way through a 12-hour shift.
What are headaches?
Paying attention to thoughts, feelings, and interactions with others in oneself to gain awareness.
What is self-awareness? (mindfulness, journaling, meditation)
When you are asked to give the invocation at a change of command ceremony, and you are explicitly told to keep it under 30 seconds.
What is a speed prayer?
The primary stress hormone that disrupts sleep patterns.
What is cortisol?
Using highly dark or cynical humor as an emotional shield to keep from feeling the weight of a bad situation.
What is a coping mechanism?
Healthy limits set to protect your peace, like delegating work when able.
What are boundaries?
Millions of people down load these to train the brain to focus in the moment and guide you through meditation.
What are mindfulness apps? Some good examples are ReSound GN, Calm, Headspace etc?
Spending 45 minutes counseling someone, only to realize they just wanted to borrow the Chapel microwave.
What is Ministry of hospitality - or Chaplain on auto pilot.