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Managing Stress
Chapter 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is stress? | Stress is the combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body's natural response to it. |
| Define stressor. | A stressor is anything that triggers a stress response. |
| Identify three stressors in your life. | Examples: moving to a new town, fighting with friends, winning a soccer game, etc. |
| Which is more harmful to your health: positive stress or distress? | distress |
| Give examples of distress. | Responses to stress can keep you from meeting your goals, make you sick, make you feel worried, angry, and depressed. Your distress response can weaken your immune system and may increase your chances of getting sick. |
| Explain how adding stressors beyond your control might affect your health. | Adding stressors beyond your control may increase stress inventory and may make you ill. |
| What do you call the set of physical changes that prepare your body to act in response to a stressor? | stress response |
| Describe the physical effects of stress. | The physical effects of stress include changes in your heart rate, digestion, blood flow, and adrenaline level. All these changes prepare you to respond in a physical way to a stressor. |
| Describe mental or emotional stress. | Mental and emotional effects of stress affect your thinking, memory, and feelings. You may become anxious, depressed, sad, or confused. |
| Why is the stress response called the "fight-or-flight" response? | It prepares you to fight the stressor if you must, or for flight from the stressor if you can run away. |
| Why can fatigue be so difficult to deal with? | Fatigue is when your mind or your body is too tired to operate normally. If you respond to a stressor by becoming fatigued, you may be too tired or confused to perform ordinary physical or mental tasks or to deal with other stressor. It can make you ill |
| Define defense mechanism. | A defense mechanism is a short-term way to protect yourself from being hurt emotionally. |
| Explain the difference between denial and repression. | Denial is refusing to see the problem, and repression is stopping all thoughts about the problem. |
| Explain how defense mechanisms can be used in a healthy way. | Defense mechanisms may help a person keep his or her self-esteem or protect himself or herself from emotional hurt in the short term. |
| Explain how you can avoid always relying on defense mechanisms to handle distress. | If you recognize the defense mechanisms you use, you can stop using them and tackle the stressor directly. |
| How can daydreaming be harmful? | When you daydream, you escape or ignore reality. When you ignore a serious stressor, it may get worse. |
| Define stress management. | Stress management is the ability to handle stress in healthy ways. |
| List six warning signs of distress. | Headaches, nightmares, teeth grinding, frustration, fatigue, mood swings. |
| Explain two ways to manage stress. | You can relax and take your mind off of the stress, or you can redirect the energy caused by the stress to an activity such as running. |
| Explain how planning ahead can help you avoid distress. | Planning ahead may help you handle and organize stressful activities better. |
| Why is learning how to manage distress in our lives a good idea? | By learning to manage distress, you can avoid or reduce many of the negative effects of distress on your health. You may avoid the physical and mental fatigue that comes with distress, and you may not make your blood pressure go up or your asthma worse. |
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