Stress management for your physical and mental well being. Knowing when you are stressed, what is causing you stress and how to deal with stress will immensly help you to lead a stress fee happy life. This presentation covers various aspects of stress and few pointers on how to deal with it.
4. KNOW YOUR STRESS
▪ General Stress
▪ Cumulative Stress
▪ Acute Traumatic Stress
▪ Post Traumatic Stress
5. Everyone has this kind of Stress.
It resolves itself within a day or
two.
No intervention is necessarily
required.
1. GENERAL
STRESS
6. Stress builds up in our body.
It becomes more difficult to
alleviate your symptoms
You may have more serious
symptoms.
You may have ore serious mental
anguish.
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2. CUMULATIVE
STRESS
8. Severe stress produced by severe
psychological trauma.
Created by unresolved critical
incident stress.
Produces lasting changes.
4. POST
TRAUMATIC
STRESS
10. SHORT TERM PHYSICAL 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
11. LONG TERM PHYSICAL STRESS
SYMPTOMS
Insomnia
Change in Appetite
Aches and pains
Frequent colds
Feelings of intense and long term
tiredness
Prone to illness
12. BEHAVIORAL STRESS SYMPTOMS
Talking too fast
Talking too loud
Twitching
Nail biting
Grinding teeth
Pacing
Over reacting
Emotional
Irritable
Irrational
Defensive
Hostile
Aggressive
13. PERFORMANCE STRESS SYMPTOMS
▪ You may not make good decisions
▪ Your fine motor skills are affected
▪ You may no longer enjoy your work
▪ Your attention span may be affected
▪ You may have more negative thoughts
▪ Your self confidence will suffer
▪ You may have difficultly concentrating
▪ All of your positive energy is consumed
▪ Your may have poor memory
15. FOCUS ON YOUR DIET
Examine your diet
▪ Lower your salt intake
▪ Lower your intake of refined sugars
and carbohydrates
▪ Lower your caffeine intake
Add to your diet
▪ Vegetables
▪ Fruits
▪ Complex
carbohydrates
▪ Vitamins
▪ Water
17. EXERCISE
▪ Exercise at least twenty minutes,
five times a week.
▪ Break a sweat to release
endorphins.
▪ Practice Yoga, Meditation and
breathing techniques.
19. BE ORGANIZED
▪ Make an increased effort to
organize your life
▪ Ask for help
▪ Delegate things when you need to
20. CONTROL ANGER
▪ Learn to manage your anger
▪ Anger affects your health
▪ Anger causes you to over react to
many situations
21. PLAY THERAPY
▪ Fill your life with fun things to do !
▪ Keep your sense of humor
22. HEALTHY LIVING TIPS
▪ Act appropriately – don’t simply
react to stressful situations.
▪ Find balance in all that you do.
▪ Don't consider Alcohol, Drugs,
Medicines and pills as easy stress
busters.
▪ Create a lengthy list of things that
will help you relax.
23. HEALTHY LIVING TIPS
▪ Relaxing needs to be part of your
daily routine.
▪ Schedule “me” time.
▪Be Optimistic.
24. BENEFITS OF STRESS MANAGEMENT
▪ Physical health gets better
- more energy and stamina
▪ Emotions stabilized
- positive attitude
- hopeful/happier
▪ Ability to focus improved
- able to learn and achieve