Stress

Management
How Do you
Feel
Today?
Daily Oral Vocabulary
Enhancement
Our Feelings help us to react to what is around
us and protect ourselves.

FEELINGS CAN BE...

POSITIVE NEGATIVE
When it makes you feel good. When it makes you feel bad.
 Stress
Management
What is Stress?
 Stresscan be
defined as our
mental, physical,
emotional, and
behavioral
reactions to any
perceived
demands or
threats.
Stressors
It refers to the things that caused an
individual to be stressed.
Two Kinds Of Stress
EUSTRESS
Pertains to a healthy and positive
response of the body from a stressor.
It makes a good impact on a person
well being.
Two Kinds Of Stress
DISTRESS
Relates to a negative reaction of the body to a
given stressor. It can cause health problems,
impair mood and emotion and even affect a
person’s way of thinking.
SYMPTOMS OF EXCESS STRESS
• Dry mouth

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
• Excessive Perspiration
• Frequent Illnesses
• Gastrointestinal problems
• Grinding of teeth
• Headaches
• High blood pressure
• Pounding heart
• Stiff neck or aching lower
SYMPTOMS OF EXCESS STRESS

EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS
• Anger
• Anxiety or edginess
• Depression
• Hypervigilance
• Impulsiveness
• Inability to concentrate
• Irritability
• Trouble with memory
SYMPTOMS OF EXCESS STRESS

BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS
4A Coping
Mechanism
A. Healthy coping strategies don’t always feel good at the
moment, but they contribute to long-lasting positive
outcomes. You can either change the situation or change your
reaction. The four A’s can help you think of healthy coping
strategies.
Avoid
• Avoid people/things that make you feel stressed.
• Learn to say no, if you don’t feel to do it.
• Think of the things that are right and important.
Alter
• If something or someone causes you to stress, communicate
Adapt it.
• If you cannot avoid or alter what stresses you, change your
expectations and attitude.
• Try to look on the brighter side
• Consider readjusting your standard
Accept
• Try not to worry about things you have no control over
Coping Mechanism
B. Unhealthy coping strategies often provide
instant satisfaction or may temporarily
reduce stress, but they cause more damage
in the long run and have negative
consequences.
Example of Unhealthy Coping Strategies:
• Smoking
• Procrastination
• Drinking too much alcohol
• Taking out your stress on others
• Over eating or under eating
• Turning attention into things that can help avoid facing
problems
• Sleeping too much
• Hour long breakdown in front of the TV or computer
Instruction: Choose TRUE if the underlined word or phrase is
correct and FALSE if it is incorrect.

1. An example of eustress is when you woke up late for

work, feeling angry and disappointed.

2. Mental Health affects how we think, feel, and act. It

also determines how we
handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

3. An example of eustress is getting high grades.

4. Stressors are defined as the physiological and emotional

responses to a significant or unexpected change or
disruption in one’s life.

5. Stressor refers to the things that make a person

stressed.