Stress
Emotional or Physical demand or strain that causes you body to release powerful neurochemicals and hormones.
What is stress?
A feeling of extreme tiredness.
What is fatigue?
Myth vs. Reality: Some drugs of abuse stimulate the release of CRF hormone
What is Reality: Opiates, Amphetamine, Cocaine, Nicotine, marijuana, and alcohol can elevate the release of CFR which in turn can cause nervous problems, clinical depression, anxiety, and sleep distrubances
The ability to handle stress in healthy ways.
What is stress management?
Any detailed program created ahead of time for doing something.
What is a plan?
Anything that causes a stress response.
What is a stressor?
Responses include racing heart, sweaty palms and a pounding head.
What are short-term responses?
Myth or Reality: People exposed to stress are more likely to abuse alcohol or other drugs, or to relapse to drug addiction.
What is Reality? Stress has long been known to increase vulnerability to addiction.
A technique used to practice an event without actually doing the event.
What is mental rehearsal?
This is the recommended amount of time you should take for yourself everyday.
What is 30 minutes
A negative physical, mental, or emotional strain in response to a stressor.
What is distress
Symptoms include back pain, high blood pressure sleeplessness and an inability to make decisions.
What is long term stress?
Myth or Reality: All stress is bad for you.
What is Reality: Stress can help you deal with tough situations, however long term stress can lead to physical and emotional health problems.
Replacing negative thoughts positive ones and use humor in stressful situations.
What are ways to change you thinking?
The ability to recover from extreme or prolonged stress
What is resilience?
The stress response that happens when winning, succeeding, and achieving.
What is positive stress or eustress?
This hormone initiates the body's response to stress and is found throughout the brain.
What is CRF? or Corticotropin Releasing Factor
Myth or Reality: Everyone deals with stress in the same way.
What is myth: People deal with stress in different ways, how you deal with stress determines how it affects your body.
Name 3 ways to manage stress.
What is eating healthy, exercising, adequate sleep, avoid confrontations or arguments, talk about it?
Two techniques that can help you keep stress under control.
What are time management and mental rehearsal?
Four areas of your life that stress can affect.
What is social, physical, mental and emotional?
Hormone that helps you cope with stress and prevents further release of CRF and ACTH.
What is cortisol?
Name the different types and levels of stress.
What short term, long term, distress and eustress.
A technique for learning to control one or more body functions by monitoring the body's responses.
What is biofeedback?
True or False: Until you accept responsibility for the role you play in creating or maintaining it, your stress level will remain outside your control.
What is true?