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List the 6 dimensions of wellness | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Spiritual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Social Wellness, and Physical Wellness |
Emotional Wellness | Requires understanding emotions and coping with problems that arise in everyday life |
Intellectual Wellness | having a mind open to new ideas and concepts |
Spiritual Wellness | state of harmony with yourself and others |
Occupational Wellness | able to enjoy what you are doing to earn a living or to contribute to society |
Social Wellness | ability to perform social roles effectively, comfortably, and without harming others |
Physical Wellness | healthy body maintained by eating right, exercising regularly, avoiding harmful habits, making informed and responsible decisions about health, seeking medical care when needed, and participating in activities that help to prevent illness |
Major Health issues of college students | Mental health, Food and weight, Health care, Substance use and abuse, Sexual and relationship health, and Accidents and injuries |
Define lifestyle disease | diseases that mostly result from people’s behaviors and the ways in which they live. |
Describe how faith, religion, and spirituality affect health. | All religions teach that divine persons have power to heal. Faith, religion, and spirituality affect our health in a positive way |
Describe three ways the mind and body communicate biologically | Autonomic nervous System (ANS), Endocrine (hormone) System, and Immune System |
autonomic nervous system (ANS) | a group of nerves that regulate many of the body’s physiological(biological) processes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and the functioning of the gastrointestinal, urinary, and reproductive systems. |
Hormones | chemicals produced by special organs and tissues in the body |
The immune system | responsible for combating infections and riding the body of foreign organisms and toxic substances. |
Stress | the sum of physical and emotional reactions to any stimulus that disturbs the harmony of body and mind. |
Stressor | any physical or psychological situation that produces stress. |
Eustress | stress resulting from pleasant stressors |
Distress | stress resulting form unpleasant stressors |
Ways that stress causes illness. | causing the mind and body to become exhausted, worn down, and damaged; Weakening immunity; and motivating unhealthy behaviors in an attempt to deal with stress. |
4 major types of anxiety | social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD |
Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) | fear of being watched and judged by others and being embarrassed |
Generalized anxiety disorder | Chronic anxiety and exaggerated worry and tension, even when there is little or nothing to provoke it |
Major depression | feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, reduced interest in previously enjoyable activities, and a variety of other symptoms. |