1. 8th Grade Health
STRESS

2. What is stress?
The combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body’s natural response to that situation.
Stressor: anything that causes a stress response

3. TYPES OF STRESS
EUSTRESS: Positive Stress
DISTRESS: Negative Stress

4. ACTIVITY
IN ONE MINUTE LIST AS MANY THINGS THAT STRESS YOU OUT THAT YOU CAN THINK OF.
THEY CAN BE BIG OR SMALL STRESSORS.

5. SNOWBALL FIGHT

6. What happens when you get stressed?
Stress response- AKA “fight or flight”
Epinephrine- stress hormone that increases level of sugar in the blood and directs “fight or flight”
Hormone: Chemical messenger in the body
Fatigue: Feeling of extreme tiredness.
What are the long term effects of stress?
Use table 3 on page 58 in your blue book and complete this chart in your journal.

7. Defense Mechanisms
An automatic short term behavior to cope with stress.
Denial
Identification
Compensation
Rationalization
Projection
Daydreaming
Displacement
Reaction formation
Regression
Sublimation

8. Stress Management
What are some healthy ways to manage stress?

9. Stress Prevention Get plenty of sleep (8 hours)
Eat fruits and vegetables
Set realistic long term and short term goals and reach them
Having fun and getting fresh air
Believing that every problem has a solution
Finding something to laugh about everyday
Treating other people with respect, the way you want to be treated