This document discusses stress, how the body responds to stress, and strategies for managing stress. It explains that stress is the body's physiological and emotional response to stimuli that disturb homeostasis. The body's alarm phase in response to stressors triggers the sympathetic nervous system and hormones like cortisol. Over time, chronic stress can lead to illness if the body cannot recover. While short-term stress from important events can be helpful, long-term distress is harmful to health. The document recommends techniques for managing stress like exercise, social support, nutrition, sleep, and cognitive relaxation strategies.

1. Managing Stress: Coping with Life’s Challenges

4. The Challenges We Face Noise Dust Relocation Parking availability Classroom access Construction delays Allergies Detours Safety hazards Stressed students, faculty and staff Aesthetics Closed off areas

5. When did we start talking about stress? Rene Descartes Chinese medicine men Hippocrates Galen Robert Koch Rudolph Virchow Hans Selye

6. So, what is stress? Write down 10 things that “stress you out” This is your first class assignment to be collected

7. Your list of things that “stress you out” are actually STRESSORS Stressors can be external or internal to your body

9. How does your body respond to stress? Think of a stressful event that happened this week – write down 3 things you felt

10. Stressors give you the feeling like you just had a shot of espresso

11. Your body responds to the world around you and inside of you Stimulus/Response Your response keeps you alive Your 5 senses = touch, taste, hear, see, feel respond to your world However, excessive stimulus/response can create overload and long-term health problems Especially when your response does not match the stimulus (i.e. could of, would of, should of, what if)

12. The General Adaptation Syndrome Figure 3.1

13. The General Adaptation Syndrome: Alarm Phase Figure 3.2

17. So, Is stress bad? Yes or No?

18. Eustress

19. Distress

20. Stress and Your Health Short-term and long-term consequences

27. Managing Your Stress Building Skills to Reduce Stress

30. De-stress Have fun

32. Managing Your Stress Self-Awareness – ahhhhh!

34. Is a pill dissolving in your stomach more effective than a healing thought dissolving in your mind?