Understanding your emotions
Feelings such as love, joy or fear.
What are emotions?
The ability to handle the stresses and changes of everyday life in a reasonable way.
What is mental/emotional health?
A strategy for using time effectively.
What is time-management?
The first stage of grief.
What is Denial?
An individual may be unable to believe that the loss occured.
What is DENIAL?
A state of uneasiness.
What is anxiety?
A combination of your feeling, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities and habits.
What is personality?
The body's response to real or imagined dangers or other life events.
What is stress?
Give yourself ___________ to grieve and accept your feelings.
WHAT IS TIME?
When a loss is recognized, it may bring intense emotions, such as crying
What is EMOTIONAL RELEASE?
Frequent changes in emotional state.
What are mood swings?
How you feel about yourself.
What is self-esteem?
Anything that causes stress.
What is a stressor?
The sorrow caused by a painful loss, such as the loss of a loved one.
What is grief?
Some people may feel angry with their loved one for leaving them. Some may blame themselves.
What is ANGER?
Needs that affect a person's feelings and sense of well-being.
What are emotional needs?
The belief in your ability to do what you set out to do.
What is confidence?
The body's way of responding to threats.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
The process of dealing with strong feelings following any loss.
What is grief reaction?
People think about what they could have done to prevent the loss.
What is BARGAINING?
The way you view yourself overall.
What is self concept?
The ability to recover from problems or loss.
What is resilience?
A hormone that increases the level of sugar in the blood, giving your body extra energy.
What is adrenaline?
The ways of dealing with the sense of loss people feel when someone close to them dies.
What are Coping Strategies?
People begin to move on, and eventually begin to think about the future.
What is ACCEPTANCE and HOPE?