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Stress and Anxiety Awareness

Stress and Anxiety Awareness. Sara McDowell. What is Stress?. What is Stress?. The process by which your body responds to changes in the environment Includes a combination of responses: Emotional Mental Physical Signs of stress?. Signs of Stress. Conflict in relationships.

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Stress and Anxiety Awareness

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  1. Stress and Anxiety Awareness Sara McDowell

  2. What is Stress?

  3. What is Stress? • The process by which your body responds to changes in the environment • Includes a combination of responses: • Emotional • Mental • Physical • Signs of stress?

  4. Signs of Stress Conflict in relationships Inability to concentrate Becoming less active A short temper Sudden changes in appetite Irritability

  5. Activity • Split into small groups of 3 or 4 group members • Write down 1 or 2 ways that you manage stress • Please share with your group members

  6. Managing Stress

  7. What is Anxiety? • Same as stress?

  8. What is Anxiety? • An emotional state characterized by feelings of: • apprehension • nervousness • fear

  9. Common Forms • GAD-dread of everyday situations • OCD-repetitive, unwanted thoughts • PTSD-intense fear after trauma is over

  10. Treating Anxiety Seek help from a doctor or the UNF Counseling Center (904)620-2602

  11. Assessment

  12. Fill in the Blanks Terms: Process, Feeling, Emotion • Stress is not merely an ____________ or a ___________. Rather, it is the ____________ by which we perceive and respond to environmental threats and challenges.

  13. Matching • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • General Anxiety Disorder • Characterized by dread of everyday situations • Characterized by repetitive, unwanted thoughts • Characterized by intense fear of a previous trauma

  14. Remember… • Mild stress or anxiety can help you to focus on facing challenges in: • School • Work • Relationships • And More…

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