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The Stress Response. What is Stress?. Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.
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What is Stress? • Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. • The events that provoke stress are called Stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations - everything from outright physical danger to making a class presentation or taking a semester's worth of your toughest subject. • There are 2 kinds of Stress.
Eustress • Good Stress. • Stress can also be activated in a milder form at a time when the pressure's on but there's no actual danger - like stepping up to take the foul shot that could win the game, getting ready to go to a big dance, or sitting down for a final exam. A little of this stress can help keep you on your toes, ready to rise to a challenge.
Distress • Bad Stress
Types of Stress • Environmental: Where you live. • Biological: Your body. (Sickness, injury) • Personal Behavior: Drugs, Alcohol, Risky Choices.
Stage 1: Alarm • In Alarm you visually see or perceive the threat. • The Hypothalamus gland in the brain sends a message down to the Adrenal Glands to release the hormone Adrenaline. • Adrenaline causes a number of things to happen to the body to prepare it to either (Fight or Flight).
Effects of Adrenaline • Increased Heart Rate. • Respiration Increases. • Pupils dilate so you can see better. • Glucose is poured into your blood stream so you have extra fuel to act. • The blood leaves places like your stomach and intestine and goes to the arms and legs so you have more oxygen and glucose in your fighting muscles.
Stage 2: Resistance • In the Resistance Stage you are super-human. • Adrenaline makes you an ultra strong, ultra fast maniac who can’t feel pain. • It is also the time when your body tries to clean the adrenaline out of your body and get back to normal.
Superhuman Strength • “I just felt this energy come” : 300lbs footballer lifts car to save the life of truck driver trapped underneath
Superhuman Strength • Teen daughters find strength to lift 3,000-pound tractor off father
Superhuman Strength • Hero daughter lifts 5,600-pound Jeep after it trapped her dad’s leg • After the truck he was working on fell off the jack, Adam Simmons, a Plymouth, Mass., resident, was caught under the vehicle. Simmons' 22-year-old daughter, Rachael, heard the yell and performed an incredible feat to help her father.
Stage 3: Fatigue • Your body is exhausted. • You are physically, mentally and emotionally fatigued.