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Stress Management - Koshish

Koshish is a group of clinical psychologists at Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya offering stress management techniques. Learn about stress, its types, stages, symptoms, and effective coping strategies.

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Stress Management - Koshish

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  1. Stress Management Koshish A group of Clinical Psychologists Dev Sanskriti VishwaVidyalaya Gaytrikunj, Shantikunj Haridwar, UttaraKhand

  2. Stress • Stress: The human reaction to events in our environment • Stress as wear and tear on the body

  3. Aspects of Stress • Positive, • Negative,

  4. Two streams of stress • Positive Stress • Getting into college • Getting engaged • Winning the lottery

  5. Negative Stress • Difficult work environment • Overwhelming sights and sounds • Threat of personal injury

  6. TYPES OF STRESS • General Stress • Cumulative Stress • Acute Traumatic Stress • Post Traumatic Stress

  7. General Stress: • Everyone has this kind of stress • It resolves itself within a day or two • No intervention is necessarily required

  8. Cumulative Stress: • Stress builds up in your body • It becomes more difficult to alleviate your symptoms • You may have more serious physical symptoms • You may have more serious mental anguish

  9. Acute Traumatic Stress: • Critical Incident Stress • Produces considerable psychological distress • Abnormal reaction to normal events

  10. Post Traumatic Stress: • Severe stress produced by severe psychological trauma • Created by unresolved Critical Incident Stress • Produces lasting changes

  11. Poor time management Mal-adjustment, Less capacity to deal effectively, Competition, Demands, Modernization, Family Environment, Socio-economic status, Stressors in Present Time

  12. Stages of Stress Syndrome Stage I - Alarm Reaction Stage II – Stage of adaptation Stage III – Stage of Exhaustion

  13. Alarm Reaction • “fight or flight” • Decreasing effect of immune system

  14. Stage of Adaptation • Negative effect of stress continuation • Lack of physical strength

  15. Stage of Exhaustion • Stress persists for a long time • The body’s resistance may be reduced or collapse quickly • Psychosomatic disorder

  16. Negative effect of stress symptoms • Dry mouth • Cool skin • Cold hands and feet • Increased sweating • Rapid breathing • Faster heart rate • Tense muscles • Feelings of nausea • Butterflies in your stomach • Diarrhea • A desire to urinate

  17. Long Term Physical Stress Symptoms • Insomnia • Change in Appetite • Sexual disorders • Aches and pains • Frequent colds • Feelings of intense and tiredness • Prone to illness

  18. Yawning Talking too fast Talking too loud Fiddling Twitching Nail biting Grinding teeth Drumming fingers Pacing Over reacting Emotional Defensive Irritable Irrational Defensive Hostile Critical Aggressive BEHAVIORAL STRESS SYMPTOMS

  19. Effective cognitive symptoms • By reducing your effectiveness • Making you accident prone • Causing you to be forgetful • Causing you to be very negative • You may neglect your appearance • You may make poor judgments • Causing you to make more mistakes • Increasing your absenteeism

  20. Effective cognitive symptoms • not make good decisions • motor skills are affected • no longer enjoy your work • attention span may be affected • negative thoughts • self confidence will suffer • difficulty concentrating • positive energy is consumed

  21. Examine your diet Balance salt intake Lower your intake of refined sugars and carbohydrates Lower your caffeine intake Add to your diet Vegetables Fruits Complex Carbohydrates Vitamins Water Essence of healthy living

  22. Tips of healthy living • Rest: • Continuous rest for min. six hours

  23. Exercise: • At least 15 min. daily • break a sweat,

  24. Sharing • Someone who is trustworthy- family members/ friends

  25. Make an increased effort to organize your life • Ask for help • Delegate things when you need to

  26. Learn to manage your anger • Anger affects your health • Anger causes you to over react to many situations

  27. HEALTY LIVING • To control over-expectation • Rethink

  28. Playing Therapy • Fill your life with fun things to do!!!! • Grow your sense of humor!!!!

  29. HEALTHY LIVING • Take charge of your life. • Act appropriately • Be balance in your life

  30. Avoid • Alcohol • Drugs • Marijuana • Medicines & Pills

  31. HEALTHY LIVING • Relaxing needs to be part of your daily routine.

  32. HEALTHY LIVING • RELAAAAAAX

  33. HEALTHY LIVING • RELAAAAAAX

  34. HEALTHY LIVING • RELAAAAAAX

  35. Yoga • Pranayam • Meditation • Shavasana • Prayer

  36. Music therapy Light & melodious music,

  37. Colour Therapy • Yellow • Orange • Red • Purple • Green • Blue • Brown • Violet • Black • White

  38. STRESS MANAGEMENT “Love all-serve all, help ever-hurt never” Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya Gaytrikunj, Shantikunj, Hardwar, UttaraKhand, India www.dsvv.org

  39. STRESS MANAGEMENT • Questions?????

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