You're stressin'
me out
me out
This is the response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened.
What is STRESS?
This is the automatic set of physiological reactions your body has to event that is perceived as stressful or frightening.
What is the FIGHT OR FLIGHT response?
This is the tendency to focus on the positive aspects of a situation, such as seeing getting fired from a job as an opportunity to find better one.
What is optimism?
This is known as the "stress" hormone and is released by the endocrine glands.
What is cortisol?
These are illnesses affecting the mind that reduce a person's ability to function, adapt to change, or get along with others
What are mental disorders?
This is sometimes called "positive" stress.
What is EUSTRESS?
During the fight or fight response, this body system drastically reduces activity.
What is the digestive system?
This kind of person may spend hours agonizing over each sentence in a paper, and still not be satisfied with the results.
What is a perfectionist?
Chronic stress increases the activity level and number of neural connections in this region of the brain, also known as the "fear center."
What is the amygdala?
This mental disorder, characterized by sadness among other symptoms, affects an estimated 10% of the global population.
What is depression?
This is sometimes called "negative" stress.
What is DISTRESS?
Reducing stress over time will likely reduce this key indicator of heart health.
What is blood pressure?
This is the tendency to focus on the negative aspects of a situation, such as seeing getting dumped by a boyfriend as confirmation that you are physically unattractive and can never be loved.
What is a pessimist?
This is the full name of the so-called HPA axis, the series of interactions between endocrine glands in the brain and on the kidney, which controls your body's reaction to stress.
What is the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis?
This is the disorder characterized by a distortion of body image, obsessive desire to lose weight, binge eating followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.
What is bulimia?
Graduating from high school, going through a parent divorce, experiencing the death of a loved one, and learning you were adopted are example of these kind of stressors.
What are MAJOR LIFE CHANGES?
This is the gland that releases adrenaline in the first stage of the fight or flight response.
What is the adrenal gland?
This is the ability to recover, or “bounce back,” from extreme hardships.
What is resilience?
Chronic stress can result in the loss of synaptic connections between neurons and the shrinking in this part of your brain, responsible for behaviors like concentration, decision-making, judgement, and social interaction.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is a mental disorder characterized by auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions, and unusual ways of thinking, among other negative symptoms.
What is schizophrenia?
Living in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, experiencing extreme weather, and dealing with noise pollution are examples of this kind of stress.
What is environmental stress?
Your body's physiological response occurs in these three stages.
What is the alarm stage, the resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage?
A person repeatedly experiencing the feelings brought about by an extremely stressful, traumatizing event is suffering from what kind of disorder?
What is PTSD?
These are the shoelace tip ends of chromosomes that measure a cell's age and can be shortened by stress.
What are telomeres?
Researchers in the 1970s discovered that the most effective antidepressants all seemed to act on this specific monoamine.
What is serotonin?