STRESS MANAGEMENT
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Recognizing Stress
1 Stress is synonymous with____________.
2. Types of stress:
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When an individual is overstressed sooner or later something will break, burnup, or melt down. That breaks depends on where the weak links are in your physical body. This is largely an inherited characteristic.
List the common "weak links" and the symptoms of their malfunction.
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BRAIN CHEMICAL MESSENGERS
1. On the average day how many messages are sent and received in the brain?
2. What two types of messengers are there?
3. What is overstress?
4. List 5 signs of overstress;
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5.What is stress tolerance?
How is this set?
5. What is low stress tolerance? How many people have this?
HAPPY MESSENGERS
1. Name the three happy messengers and their importance to the body.
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2. What is your Body Clock?
3. Why is the he 24 hour cycle of the body clock important?
4. What are the 3 important parts of your body clock?
5. What is the hormone called that is the body's chief stress fighting hormone?
6. What is the first Happy Messenger to Fail?
7. What is adrenalin?
8. The main role of Noradrenalin?
9. What is the role or Endorphins?
10. If a person is experiencing a lot of main from a minor injury, what can be said about their endorphins?
11. When Dopamine function decline, what happens to the endorphin function?
12. How much of the population is in Overstress all the time?
PICK-ME-UP'S
1. How do pick-me-up's work?
2. Why is not advised to use pick-me-up's when overstressed?
3. Name the 5 most common used pick-me-up's?
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4. Which is the leading pick-me-up of choice.?
Second most used?
Third most used?
5. Pick-me-up's are commonly used in two styles. What are they and describe each?
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6. How many people in the US use pick-me-up's on a regular basis?
7. What is the major drawback of a pick-me-up?
STRESS TOLERANCE: PATTERNS OF INHERITANCE
1. What does it mean if a person has Low Stress Tolerance?
2. At what age does this usually begin to show?
3. Is low stress tolerance inherited?
4. What are the three reasons you can not restore brain chemistry to normal by using pick-me-up's?
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5.Give the best example of "It Hurts so Good" pick-me-up?
6. What is a "Put-Me-Down"?
7. What are some Put-Me-Down's? Which is the most common?
HOW TO DEAL WITH OVERSTRESS
1. The biggest mistake a person can make in handling stress is:
2. What are some of the names given to the symptoms of overstress?
3. What should you do when overstress?
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4. Overstress is treated by:
5.. Name the 10 simple ways to reduce you stress load.
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