Ways to Deal With Daily Stress

Daily Stressors Ways to Handle

Stressors
Healthy Ways
You May Face Daily Stressors Management
-Well balanced diet

-Exercise (Yoga, meditation

-Sleeping well

-Talk and share feelings

-Take a break

Wrong Ways
-Smoking

-Alcohol

-Drugs

-These ultimately increase stress on the

body

“It’s not stress that kills us,

it is our reaction to it”
-Hans Selye
 Behavioral
Stressors That We May
-Nervous habits (Biting nails, pacing)

Face -Sleeping too much or too little

Eustress (Positive Stress) -Eating too much or too little

-Short term
-Use of alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to cope

-Feeling of excitement

-Motivates or focuses energy

-Ex) Having a baby, holidays, starting a new

job, retiring

Distress (Negative Stress) Signs and Symptoms of

-Short or long term

-Decreases performance
Stress

-Feeling unpleasant
Cognitive

-Causes anxiety
-Constant worrying

-Ex) Death, injury/ illness, divorce, -Poor judgement

unemployment, legal issues

-Seeing only negative

Acute Stress Emotional

-Exciting in small doses

-Moodiness/ Short tempered

-Stomach ache
-Overwhelmed

-Headache
-Agitated

-Rapid heartbeat
-Sense of loneliness or isolation

-Repeated acute stress can lead to chronic

stress
Physical

-Aches and pains

Chronic Stress -Frequent colds

-Stockpile of stressors that someone could -Nausea and dizziness

not overcome
-Increased blood pressure and heart rate

-Wears and breaks people down

-Could lead to chronic illnesses and disease

-Eventually calls for medical treatment

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