Managing Stress

Physical, mental, and emotional reactions of your body to the challenges you face.

• Stress

• Eustress

• Distress

• Toxic stress

Positive stress that encourages growth and motivation.

• Trauma

• Distress

• Eustress

• Stress

Practice of taking an active role in protecting your own health; involves eating healthy and getting plenty of sleep and physical activity.

• Stress management

• Relaxation response

• Stress

• Self-care

Stress caused by repeated, long-lasting exposure to severe stressors, such as neglect and abuse, violence, or loss of a loved one.

• Toxic stress

• Trauma

• Stressor

• Distress

Reaction in which the body returns to its resting state after a stressful event.

• Stress management

• Eustress

• Relaxation response

• Self-care

Extreme stress due to deeply disturbing events, such as disasters, sexual assault, or violence.

• Distress

• Toxic stress

• Eustress

• Trauma

Any factor that causes stress.

• Distress

• Eustress

• Stress

• Stressors

Process of using strategies to reduce the impact of the stress response and handle threatening situations in positive ways.

• Stress management

• Relaxation response

• Self-care

• Eustress

Stress that causes negative feelings and harmful health effects.

• Eustress

• Distress

• Toxic stress

• Trauma

Body’s impulse to either fight off or flee from threatening situations.

• Self care

• Stressor

• Stress management

• Fight-or-flight response