Stress outline NAMEcorbin PER3

1. A stressor is the cause of stress. Stress is the body’s response to thedemands of life.
1. ___________________________________________ 9. ___________________________________________
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8. ___________________________________________ 16. ____________________________________________

2. Adrenaline is a hormone that prepares the body to react. Reactions your

body might have physically if you were facing a stressor:
STRESS CAN CAUSE:
heart rate goes up muscles tense headaches dizziness,
you clench your fists , stomach ache grinding teeth, gas,
constipated, can’t
Fight or flight means your body is either ready to fight and face the sleep, tired, sick,
asthma, acne…
stressor, or flight (get away) from the stressor.
can’t concentrate,
crabby, anxious,
unhappy, sad, not
3. When you experience stressors, changes occur in your body. motivated, compulsive
behavior, crying, hurts
Adrenaline is a good thing, but it is meant to help us in a crisis, and not relationships, hurts
athletic performance,
daily. Muscles in the body get fatigued with prolonged stress and lack of
hurts schoolwork,
oxygen. causes accidents…

4. Prolonged stress lowers your immune system and causes people to get
sick Why? Because besides an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, there is blood
flow to the brain, heightened senses, blood sugar increase, blood clotting, and decrease in
blood flow to skin, digestive tract, and kidneys!

5. Psychosomatic disease is a physical disorder caused by an emotional

reason. Ex: stomachache caused by fear / or headache caused by stress

6. If you turn to drugs or alcohol because of stress, you: use the drug as an escape
and its addicting don’t learn how to cope

7. 3 things to do if you are stressed out : TIME OUT - WORK OUT - REACH OUT

1. TIME OUT take time out for things you enjoy. These should be simple pleasures
that you can enjoy daily like listening to music, talking on the phone, etc.

List 5 things you would like to do for a “TIME OUT:

1. be on my phone

2. play on steam

3.

4.

5.

2. WORK OUT-exercise and get daily activities.

List 5 things you like to do for a “WORK OUT:

1. treadmeal

2. skating

3. walk

4. bowling

5. rock climing

3. REACH OUT-This could be reaching out to others, joining an activity, or

volunteering to help others (you’ll feel better about yourself and your situation!)

List 3 things you could do to “REACH OUT”:

1.joining my family in certain activities

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8. To be resilient means:
_____________________________________________________________________________.

9. There is “good” stress (Eustress) and “Bad” stress (Distress) Eustress is stress from good
events

10. Clinical Depression is _______________________________. Go to a clinic if it

lasts longer than: __________________________________________________.

11. A person is Clinically Depressed if they have 5 or more of these

symptoms2:

- Depressed or _______________________________________ most of the day

- Diminished interest or pleasure in daily activities

- Substantial increase or decrease in _________________________________

- Insomnia or excessive ____________________________________

- Restlessness or slowness of movement

- _______________________________________ or loss of energy

- Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt

- Difficulty concentrating, thinking, or making decisions

- Recurrent thoughts of death or _____________________________________________

12. Causes of Depression:

1. ___________________________________ history can cause depression. ( if one parent has

Clinical
 Depression, you have a _____% chance of also getting it. It usually starts from
age 12 - 40).3

2. Depression can be caused by a ________________________________________imbalance.

*TREATMENTS ARE: _________________________________ , and

_____________________________________.

13. Bipolar Disorder: is a disorder that includes episodes of major _________________________,

and episodes of _____________________. Manic symptoms can include: being hyper, feeling

“high, spending $, egotistical, judgmental, no one else is right, don’t need sleep, irritable…

It should be treated*.

14. Other Depression Disorders include: Post-Partum depression is Clinical Depression in

new

mothers that occurs weeks or months after their baby is born. It is probably due to

hormonal changes in her body. It should be treated*.

S.A.D. – Seasonal Affective Disorder is sometimes called “Winter Depression” and can be

brought on by dark days, lack of sunlight, and shorter days. It should be treated*.

15. Teens who are at risk for attempting suicide may have one or more of the following
WARNING SIGNS:

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5. 10.

16. What to do if you are concerned someone is considering suicide:

1) SHOW ________________________________________________________________

2) ASK ___________________________________________________________________

3) GET________________________________ TELL AN ___________________________________ !!!!!!!!!

National Suicide Hotline Number: __________

1
http://www.stress.org/americas-1-health-problem/
2
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/major-depressive-episode-symptoms/
3
http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_03.html