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Stress Management
Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fear: of loss of self dominance | Anxious feelings of losing control of your life. |
| Fear: of unknown | Anxious feelings about uncertainty and future events. |
| Fear: of failure | Anxious feelings of not meeting your own expectations. |
| Unwarranted Fears | Similar to an irrational fear, an instance when anxiety overcomes one's thoughts based on a nonphysical threat to one's existence. |
| Irrational Fears | An overwhelming feeling of anxiety based on a false perception. |
| Somatizer | A person exhibiting an anger style by suppressing rather than expressing feelings of anger. When anger is suppressed, unresolved anger issues appear as symptoms of disease and illness. |
| Fear: of death | Anxious feelings about death and the dying process. |
| Self-punisher | A person exhibiting a mismanaged anger style by denying a proper outlet of anger, replacing it with guilt. These people punish themselves by excessive eating, exercise, sleeping, cutting, or even shopping. |
| Exploder | A person exhibiting a mismanaged anger style by intimidating others as a means to control them. |
| Catharsis | Emotional release through crying, yelling, laughing, and the like. |
| Fear: of rejection | Anxious feeling of not meeting the expectations of others. |
| Depression | A state of mind where thoughts are clouded by feelings of despair. Physiologists suggest that this is caused by a chemical imbalance; psychologists suggest that it is the result of unresolved stress emotions (anger turned inward). |
| Systematic Desensitization | A term coined by psychologist Joseph Wolpe to describe a process of progressive tolerance to stress by gaining a greater sense of comfort with the unknown through repeated exposure and visualization. |
| Underhander | A person exhibiting a mismanaged anger style by seeking revenge and retaliation. This passive-aggressive anger style is a means to control others, but in a very subtle way. |
| Fear: of isolation | Anxious feelings of being left alone. |