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Managing Stress: Understanding its Impact, Causes, and Effective Strategies

Learn about the effects of stress on our emotional and physical well-being, the various causes of stress, and practical ways to cope with it. This session also includes a recommended TED Talk by Kelly McGonigal on how to make stress your friend.

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Managing Stress: Understanding its Impact, Causes, and Effective Strategies

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  1. COLL 148: Week 4Stress Management Presented by Prof jim schneider

  2. What Is stress? “In a medical or biological context stress is a physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension. Stresses can be external (from the environment, psychological, or social situations) or internal (illness, or from a medical procedure). Stress can initiate the fight or flight response, a complex reaction of neurologic and endocrinologicsystems” (medicinenet.com, 2018, para.1).

  3. Impact of stress • On our emotional and mental states: • Decreased cognitive capacity • Decreased IQ (in extreme cases, such as a persistent threat) • Anxiety • Depression • On the body: • Lowered immune system • High blood pressure • Irritable Bowel Syndrome • Heart disease • Stroke

  4. Causes of stress • Though variable and numerous, causes often cited are: • Financial • Family/Relationships • Pets • Job • School • Environment—natural, such as weather, and man-made, such as your home • Health • Personal Safety • What Else??

  5. How Not to deal with stress • Drugs (unless prescribed), including **marijuana • Nicotine • Excessive caffeine (bummer, I know) • Alcohol (more than moderate consumption) • Over or binge eating, especially of unhealthy foods • Excessive use of electronics • Denying/avoiding the cause of the stress • Social isolation

  6. How Best to deal with stress • SLEEP!!! • Exercise • Healthy diet • PRACTICE MEDITATION AND/OR MINDFULNESS (Calm app) • Diaphragmatic breathing, the vagus nerve, and the parasympathetic nervous system • Address causes of stress head-on, including changing behaviors/patterns that may have contributed to the stress (e.g. better time management) • SEEK SUPPORT AND TALK IT OUT • Take a break and do what you love

  7. Review of week 4 • Lesson • Discussion • Time Management

  8. TED recommendation and Q&A • Great TED Talk for this topic: • In Google, look for Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend • Q&A?

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