Health and Wellness
What is Health?
A complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being
The feeling of unease and being overwhelmed.
What is Stress?
It is the nonspecific response of your body to any demand made upon it.
What is the Stress Response?
Psychological change occuring outside of conscious control.
What is Wellness?
The active process of achieving health.
What causes Anxiety?
What is a stressor?
What is the part of the brain that sets off the stress response?
Amygdala.
True or false: Wellness is the overall balance of intellectual, social, emotional, environmental, physical, and spiritual well-being?
True.
True or False: Anxiety is a negative feeling in response to stress.
True
What is Distress?
Negative Stress depleting or destroying life energy
What sends a "wake up" signal to the brain stem?
Thalamus
True or False: Health is the absence of disease or infirmity.
False.
When does anxiety become diagnosable?
When persistent worrying interferes with daily life.
What is Eustress?
Positive stress challenging us to grow and adapt.
What system signals the major muscle groups for fight or flight?
Sympathetic Nervous Systems