1. Do Now:
Identify two or three situations that can cause stress on a daily basis.

2. Chapter 4: Managing Stress and Coping with Loss
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3. What causes Stress?
Stress- is the body’s and mind’s response to a demand.
Stressor- any situation that puts a demand on the body or mind.

4. Experiencing Stress Activity
Write about a stressful experience you have had. Write about how it made you feel and how your body responded.

5. What Trigger’s Stress?
Environmental Stressors- Conditions or events in your physical environment that cause you stress.
For Example: pollution, poverty, crowding, noise, and natural disasters.

6. Biological Stressors
These are conditions that make it difficult for your body to take part in activities.
For example, having an illness, a disability, or an injury.

7. Thinking Stressors
-Any type of mental challenge can cause stress.

8. Behavioral Stressors
-Unhealthy behavior, such as not getting enough sleep or exercise, can lead to stress. Using tobacco, alcohol or drugs also puts stress on your body.

9. Life Change Stressors
-Any major life change, whether positive or negative, can be a cause of stress. For example, death of a loved, getting married, and other personal events can cause stress.

10. Physical Response to Stress
The way your body responds to stress in a stressful situation.

11. Fight or Flight

12. Fight or Flight Response
Epinephrine: One of the hormones released by the body in times of stress. Also called adrenaline.
It prepares the body for quick action by triggering the changes:
Your breathing speeds up, which helps get more oxygen to your muscles.
Your heart beats faster.
Your muscles tense up.
The pupils of your eyes get wider.
Your digestion slows down.
Blood sugar increases to provide more fuel for fighting or running.

13. Emotional and Behavioral Response
Positive Stress- can help you respond well in a stressful situation.
Eustress: A positive stress that energizes one and helps one reach a goal.
Negative Stress-If you choose to consider giving a speech to be negative stress, you may experience distress.
Distress: is negative stress that can make a person sick or keep a person from reaching a goal.

14. Try to Make Stress Positive
One way you can help yourself experience Eustress is to be optimistic about dealing with a stressor.

15. Long Term Stress
If your body experiences stress continuously over a long period of time, you increase your risk for a wide range or stress-related disorders.
Alarm Stage-In the alarm stage, the body and mind become alert. Includes the events of flight or flight response. May experience headaches, stomachaches, difficulty sleeping, and anxiety.
Resistance Stage-If the stress continues, your body become more resistant to disease and injury than normal.
Exhaustion Stage-Your body cannot take the resistance to the stressor any longer, especially if several stressors occur in a row. Organs such as your heart may suffer, and your immune system can no longer fight illness.

16. Stress-Related Diseases and Disorders
Tension Headache
Cold and Flu
Asthma
Migraine Headache
Backache
Heart Disease
Stroke
High Blood Pressure
Chronic Fatigue
Ulcer
Anxiety Disorder
Insomnia
Depression

18. Review Questions
On page 82. Questions 1-6 to be answered. Will be collected.

19. Exit Slip
What is the key term that was gone over for a negative stress that can make you sick or can keep you from reaching goals.
Name 4 Stress-Related Diseases and Disorders.