Ch 3: Managing Stress

Stress

• something you produce when you do things that make you feel good.
• a response someone displays when they achieve their goals.
• a response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened.
• a responce your loved ones show you when you fail.

Eustress

• stress that produces positive effects.
• stress used to cope with emotional set backs.
• stress that can help you stay physically healthy.
• stress that can cause you to be emotionally unstable.

Distress

• stress that produces positive effects.
• stress used to cope with emotional set backs.
• stress that helps you be stable.
• stress that produces negative effects.

Stressor

• a type of stress that causes you to think positively.
• an event or situation that causes stress in your life.
• a person who is feeling stressed in their life.
• an emotion you feel when you are worried.

Catastrophe

• an event that allows individuals to cope with their emotions.
• a word used to describe the huge amount of stress in a person's life
• an event that will cause people to feel emotionally unstable. 
• an unexpected event that threatens lives and may destroy property.

Flight-or-Fight Response

• the initial reaction of the body to stress during the alarm stage.
• a response one feels when they are sad and emotional.
• a strong emotional response to good news.
• a physical response to bad or good news. 

Optimism

• a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of a situation.
• a tendency to be critical of other people and their lives.
• a tendency to focus on the positive aspects of a situation.
• the idea that you don't feel emotions such as sadness.

Pessimism

• a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of a situation and to expect the worst. 
• a tendency to give praise to other people's lives.
• the tendency to bother people when they want to be left alone.
• a feeling of hopelessness and emotional vulnerability 

Perfectionist

• a person who is always negative and brings people down.
• someone who will judge others because they are not perfect.
• a person who accepts nothing less than excellence.
• a person who will inspire people to be perfect in their lives. 

Resilience

• an opportunity to escape something that stresses you in your life.
• the ability to recover from extreme or proloned stress.
• a feeling that you will not be able to resist giving up.
• a situation in which you will either give up or continue.