1 / 27

Doctor Diagnosis: Stress and Stress Management

Learn about the effects of stress on the body, identify stressors, and discover ways to manage stress. Explore the fight or flight response and its impact on various bodily functions. Discover the connection between stress and the immune system to prioritize your health. Join us to let go of stress and find balance in life.

mccoyc
Download Presentation

Doctor Diagnosis: Stress and Stress Management

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Doctor Diagnosis

  2. Stress and Stress Management

  3. What is Stress? • The term “stress” actually refers to the body’s reactions to any demand placed upon it. • Stress can be good and bad.

  4. What is a stressor? • Any factor that causes stress • Examples: body image, money, friends, family, school

  5. My Top Stressors

  6. Rankyour stressorsfrom 1-10 as how stressful they are right now. 1 is the most stressful and 10 is the least stressful

  7. Perception • A meaning given to an event or occurrence based on a person’s previous experience or understanding. Threatening or non-threatening.

  8. Eustress • Good stress • Is stress that provides a welcome challenge

  9. Distress • Bad stress • Is stress that is perceived as negative

  10. Fight or Flight Objective: To be able to identify at least 7 ways that Fight or Flight affects our bodies.

  11. Watch this video on Fight or Flight

  12. What happens to the following during the alarm stage? • Pupils • Hearing • Saliva • Heart rate • Blood pressure • Bronchioles • Digestion • Blood flow to muscles • Muscles

  13. Pupils • Dilate

  14. Hearing • Sharpens

  15. Breathing • Increases

  16. Saliva • Decreases

  17. Heart rate • Increases

  18. Blood pressure • Increases

  19. Digestion • Slows

  20. Blood flow to muscles • Increases

  21. Muscles • Tighten

  22. Stress and Immunology • Stress can decrease your white blood cell count which will lead to poor health. • Immunological system includes the following white blood cell groups which identify and destroy foreign substances: • Phagocytes-destroyers • Lymphocytes • T cells • B cells

  23. Life is tough, Let’s De-stress

More Related