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Stress Is Only Natural
Effects of Stress
Defense Mechanisms
Managing Distress
Vocabulary
100
Any stress that keeps you from reaching your goals or makes you sick.
What is distress?
100
Listing all the life changes you have faced in the last year.
What is a personal stress inventory?
100
Exercise to burn off energy.
What is one way to relieve physical effects of stress ?
100
Headaches, teeth-grinding, and heart-pounding.
What are warning signs of physical distress?
100
Doing something to take your mind off the problem to focus on something else that is not stressful.
What is relaxtation?
200
Loss of sleep, depression and feeling tired.
What are symptoms of distress?
200
A hormone triggering your body’s stress response.
What is epinephrine?
200
A short term automatic way to protect yourself from being hurt emotionally.
What is a defense mechanism?
200
Ability to handle stress in healthy ways.
What is stress management?
200
A set of physical changes that prepare your body to act in response to a stressor.
What is stress response?
300
Something that makes you feel good and is triggered by something that makes you excited or happy.
What is positive stress?
300
Changes preparing your body to act in response to a stressor.
What is fight or flight?
300
Blocking out all thoughts about a situation.
What is repression?
300
Nightmares, mood-swings, depression and forgetfulness.
What are emotional and mental signs of stress?
300
The combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body’s natural response to it.
What is stress?
400
Determines whether you feel distress or positive stress.
What is how you react to stressors?
400
Physical or mental exhaustion.
What is fatigue?
400
Making excuses for justifying behavior to avoid a problem or gain acceptance.
What is rationaliztion?
400
Taking energy from your stress response and directing it into an activity that’s not stressful.
What is redirection?
400
Using your imagination to escape an unpleasant situation.
What is daydreaming?
500
A collection of minor problems that build up.
What is distress?
500
Stomach aches, headaches, changes in appetite, high blood pressure or makes asthma worsen.
What is long term effects of stress?
500
Expressing emotions like anger or disappointment in a very childlike way.
What is regression?
500
Looking at a situation from another point of view and changing your emotional response to a situation.
What is reframing?
500
Putting negative feelings on someone else
What is projection?