Effects of Stress
Startling Statistics
Stress Physiology
Stress Management Techniques
100

Prolonged anger can cause stress on this organ

What is the liver?

100

Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.

What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).

100

The body's automatic response to danger.

What is Flight or Fight Response?

100

A method of stress reduction in which one takes slow, deep, "belly" breaths.

What is deep breathing or deep breathing meditation?

200

Two symptoms of acute stress are

What is, heart rate and blood pressure increasing; breathing becomes more rapid; blood flow increases throughout the body; skin gets cool and clammy; digestion slows down.

200

This was the leading cause of death in people aged 18-45 in a 12-month period ending in April 2021.

What is drug overdose?

200

The part of the nervous system that controls bodily functions over which we have no conscious control.

What is the Autonomic Nervous System?

200

A method of stress reduction in which one sequentially tightens all the muscles in the body and then voluntarily relaxes them.

What is progressive muscle relaxation?

300

Three individuals at higher risk for stress are

Older age; being female, especially a working mother; less education; being divorced or widowed; experiencing financial strain; being isolated or lonely; being a target of racial or sexual discrimination; living in a city

300

Between 60-80% of IV drug users contract this infectious virus.

What is Hepatitis C?

300

The part of the nervous system responsible for the stress response.

What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?

300

A method of stress reduction in which one visualizes images that are calming and relaxing.

What is guided imagery or guided imagery meditation?

400
The lungs are negatively impacted by this 
What is grief?
400

There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.

What are newborn babies?

400

The area in the brain that send the distress signal to the body during a stressful event

What is the amygdala? 
400

An activity that increase dopamine levels

What are sports, baking, reading, nature documentaries, video games, board games, etc...

500

The effect of a level of stress that is neither too low, resulting in boredom, or too high, resulting in exhaustion, ill health and burnout.

What is optimal performance?

500

This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.

What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

500

The area in the brain that control the body's response to stress after receiving a distress signal.

What is the hypothalamus?

500
A hormone that lowers stress levels

dopamine or endorphins