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STRESS A challenge Can we challenge it?

STRESS A challenge Can we challenge it?. ATUL GANDOTRA. What’s stress. An adaptive response to an internal & external situation that results in physical, psychological and behavioural deviations Adaptation – a coping up mechanism. Two kinds of stress. Eustress & Distress

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STRESS A challenge Can we challenge it?

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  1. STRESSA challengeCan we challenge it? ATUL GANDOTRA

  2. What’s stress • An adaptive response to an internal & external situation that results in physical,psychological and behavioural deviations Adaptation – a coping up mechanism

  3. Two kinds of stress Eustress & Distress • Eustress:Pushes you to achieve more. Moderate quantum of stress - a driving force for many achievements. • Distress:Depletes our energy stores and causes damage

  4. Is stress natural? Appears to be a natural part of evolution. • Look at what happens on our planet Population explodes; resources crunch; man exploits nature; the forests are shrinking; snow peaks melt away; ozone depletes in the sky; sea level inches up submerging islands – many such changes. Change is inevitable • But man’s survival instinct pushes him to face the changing scenario

  5. STRESS IS NATURAL If stress is natural……. The capacity to challenge stressful situation and convert it to an opportunity is the real progress

  6. The challenge • The changing scenario makes competition inevitable. • Competition challenges us • Man’s ever increasing needs & wants further adds up to the challenge of competition • There, man develops General Adaptive Syndrome

  7. General Adaptive Syndrome Three stages • Alarm:Outside stressor mobilizes the internal stress system of our body • Resistance:The body calls upon the needed system (or organ) to deal with the stressor • Exhaustion:if the stressor persiststhe reserves of the adaptive mechanism drains out

  8. PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESS • HYPERACTIVITY OF ADRENAL GLAND • ACTIVATION OF SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM • VASOCONSTRICTION • INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE

  9. Personality & stress Findings of Friedman & Rosenman • Type A personalities aggressively involve in a prolonged incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time, at times, against the opposing efforts of environment. • They succumb to stress as they allow distress to seep in

  10. Personality & Stress • Type B personalities relax well without feeling guilt; they do not have pressing deadlines and are not in a hurry; they are mild mannered; they play for fun and not to win. • They don’t succumb to stress as they don’t allow stress to seep in.

  11. STRESS TRIANGLE Psychological Physical behavioural

  12. STRESS MANAGEMENT MANAGE AT ALL THE THREE LEVEL • PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVEL: MEDITATION, REASSESSING OUR THOUGHTS & FEELINGS • PHYSICAL LEVEL: EXERCISES, YOGA, PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES • BEHAVIOURAL LEVEL: RESPONDING WITH EQUANIMITY AND CALMNESS IF the distress crosses the threshold level medical problems like Depression, Anxiety disorders, Hypertension etc. sets in. seek medical help from a qualified medical practitioner

  13. STRESS RELATED DISORDERS • Sleep disturbance • Easy fatigability • Loss of appetite • Nervousness, tension, irritability, restlessness • Depression • Abdominal disturbances • Migraine headache • And many such conditions

  14. STRESS RELATED DISORDERS • A high level of stress is accompanied by high blood pressure and high cholesterol and can result in heart diseases*

  15. SUGGESTED COPING STRATEGIES • Take life the way it comes • Stop blaming others • Develop your own inherent potential • Live in the present & Work for the future • Maintain harmonious relation with others • Learn to be happy & cheerful

  16. SUGGESTED COPING STRATEGIES • Respond to situations with equanimity, detachment, courage, determination • Avoid negative emotional reactions like anger, grumbling, worrying and apprehensions.

  17. SUGGESTED COPING STRATEGIES • Create a supportive climate • Redesign and enrich the job content* • Reduce conflict & clarify roles • Seek professional counseling

  18. Meichenbaum’s approach to stress management • Teaching individuals that negative self-evaluation increase stress • Monitoring one’s own self-defeating strategies – teaching new cognitive strategies • Teaching new skills like relaxation • Providing real life homework assignment that become increasingly difficult to carry out

  19. CONCLUSION • Stress is manageable -It needs efforts • Engage truthful thinking • Modulate your behavioural pattern

  20. CONCLUSION • Lead a well balanced life of satisfaction. • Assert control on self in terms of thinking & action ADAPTABILITY IS THE “MOTHER KEY” TO CONVERT DISTRESS TO EUSTRESS

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