Stress
Good or Bad?
Is all stress bad?
Benefits of Eustress:
-improves performance
-motivates
-short-term
Consequences of stress
- Anxiety and depression
- Poor Mood
-Unhealthy lifestyle if not coped with properly
Stress Prevention:
Secondary Prevention: These are aimed to prevent stress that is already occurred from getting worse or monitoring it. Such as someone who is working full time and trying to go to school, they should allow time each week to do something they enjoy and relaxes them to prevent them from having too much stress
Tertiary Prevention: This is to rehabilitate or get back to normal state. So if you have experience something traumatic such as the death of a family member and now you have so much stress you can seek counseling that will help you achieve your goal and lower your stress levels
Working Out
Reading/ Doing Leisure Activites
Therapeutic
How do I know if I am stressed?
-Low Energy
-Headaches
-Aches, pains, tense muscles
-High Blood Pressure
-Lack of Sleep
Defense Meachanism of Stress
Www.health.com/Coping-with-stress
Www.apa.org/coping-with-stress-and-anxiety