Stress
Stress Reduction Skills
Becoming Organized
Defining Priorities
Reducing Relationship Struggles
Relapse due to Stress
100

This occurs when obstacles block a person from reaching a goal.

What is a frustration?

100

Do this helps the body releases endorphins, Hormonal Regulation, Improved Blood Flow and Oxygenation, Distraction and Focus, Increased Self-Efficacy, and improved sleep quality which all helps reduce stress. 

What is exercise? 

100

This helps reduce a sense of being overwhelmed. 

What is Time Management or organization?

100

This fosters a sense of control, allowing for focused time management, and enabling the allocation of resources to what truly matters, leading to a more balanced and less overwhelming approach to daily life. 

What is Defining Priorities?  

100

David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called this man “the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo.”

Who is Walt Disney?

100

It is important to manage the severity of stress to stop this.

What is relapse?

200

He had over 400 heads to convey different faces and movements. He is seen as a "reverse Grinch."

Who is Jack Skellington? 

200

This help reduce stress by Increased Awareness and Reduced Reactivity, developing a "Being" Mindset, duce activity in the amygdala, Self-Compassion and Acceptance, improved Focus and Attention and lowers heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol levels.  

What is mindfulness exercises? 

200

This happened When your environment and schedule are organized, you spend less time worrying about misplaced items or forgotten tasks, freeing up mental space and reducing anxiety. 

What is Mental Clutter?

200

Prioritization can lead to an increase of this as you are able to focus your energy and time on the tasks that will have the greatest impact, leading to a sense of accomplishment and reduced stress.

What is Increased Productivity?

200

This should be replaced by a support system that encourages and supports healthy recovery-orientated activities. 

What is using friends?
200

This can cause someone to feel run-down, decrease immune system, increase depression and fatigue, which can lead to relapse. 

What is Chronic stress?

300

This occurs when there are two opposing forces - one force against the other.

What is conflict?

300

This increases emoitonal well-being, self-awareness, resiliency, and self-esteem. It also reduces a state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. 

What is self-care? 

300

When you're organized, you can do this because you have all the information you need and are less likely to be overwhelmed by the chaos.

What is improve decision-making process?

300

On opening day this ran out of food and drinking's, counterfeit tickets led to unexpectedly large crowed. and shoes got stuck in freshly laid asphalt in 100-degress weather.

What is Disneyland?

300

As long as nonsober friends and associates believe you are still using, they will continue to call, drop by and stay in touch. One should do this to stop them from doing so. 

What is tell them clearly that you are in recovery?

300

This is only a temporary relief of stress that often makes things worse later on.

What is substance use?

400

This is helping you feel motivation, perform better, respond to danger, help you learn. become more resilient, and help you develop?

What is stress is beneficial in moderation?

400

He is bulletproof, fireproof, shockproof, and can think faster than a supercomputer.

Who is Stitch?
400

When you can easily find what you need and know what's coming up, you experience less of this to improve searching for things or forgetting important details.

What is frustration? 

400

Prioritizing allows you to allocate time for both work/school and personal activities, helping to create this and reduce stress by ensuring that you have time for self-care and relaxation.

What is Improved Work-Life Balance?

400

Promises do not rebuild trust. Doing this instead will help repair relationships. 

What is being honest and following through on commitments? 

400

Stress can also affect the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain responsible for decision-making and this which can make it difficult to make rational decisions and control this which can lead to drug or alcohol use.

What is impulsive behaviors?

500

This comes from the force people to achieve a specific goal by speeding up, working harder, or changing the way they do something.

What is a pressure?

500

Eating more, smoking more, relapsing, withdraw from others, becoming more irritable, impatient, depression, or acting immaturely are examples of this. 

Unhealthy coping skills or lack of coping skills. 

500

This heroine and daughter of a chief name means "ocean" in Polynesian language

Who is Moana?

500

Focusing on valued activities, even if they don't happen every day, can build this by shifting focus away from blaming, worrying, and ruminating and towards small actions that have personal meaning for you.

What is resiliency?

500

This can improve relationships by trying to see things from your partner's viewpoint and acknowledge their feelings, even if you don't agree with them. 

What is Empathy?

500

Stress can trigger the release of cortisol, a hormone that is associated with the fight-or-flight response. Cortisol can increase feelings of this and make it difficult to cope with stressful situations.  

What is Anxiety?
600

This is determined by how long or short stress last, if there are additional stressors happening at the same time, the individual perception of the stress, coping skills and external resources and supports. 

Whast is severity of stress? 

600

This help Challenge negative thoughts, Focus on what you can control, Practice gratitude and Journaling,  

What is Cognitive Strategies or Changing your thoughts and perspectives. 

600

Having a system in place and knowing where things are helps you feel thisa about your environment and your life, which can significantly reduce stress.

What is a Sense of Control?

600

To do this, first list all tasks, then assess their importance and urgency, and finally, prioritize those with the highest impact and deadlines.

What is determining what to prioritize?

600

This strengthens emotional bonds, creates shared memories, building trust, fosters a deep connection, enhances overall weel-being, and reduces stress. 

What is Quality time? 

600

Stress can also reduce the level of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is associated with pleasure and reward. When people experience stress, their dopamine levels decrease, which can lead to feelings of this?

What is sadness/despair/depression?