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Eustress, or good stress, is stress that benefits our health, like physical exercise or getting
a promotion.
Eustress or positive stress occurs when your level of stress is high enough to motivate
you to move into action to get things accomplished
The stress response increases our ability to stand and fight or turn and flee and to
mobilize all our resources to achieve whatever we decide to do.
Stress only has a positive effect if it is not allowed to build up or feed on it, i.e. if it can
be worked off.
Distress:
The negative effects of stress show particularly when a person allows stress to remain in
the body, usually when a person allows stress to remain in the body, usually when there is
no chance to take the necessary steps to release a stress response that is too strong or lasts
too long.
Distress, is stress that harms our health and often results from imbalances between
demands made upon us and our resources for dealing with these demands.
Distress or negative stress occurs when your level of stress is either too high or too low
and your body and/or mind begin to respond negatively to the stressors.
TYPES OF STRESSORS:
The first step in learning to control your stress, and live with it, is to find out what your
stresses are, i.e. what stresses you personally. Stressors are divided into physical and social
groupings and the social stresses can be subdivided into further:
Physical Stressors
Social Stressors (Social, Economic, Political, Family, Job Career, Interpersonal &
Environmental)
Stages of Stress:
Alarm Stage:
It is begin to experience a stressful event or perceive something to be stressful
psychological changes occur in your body. This experience or perception disrupts your bodys
normal balance and immediately your body begins to respond to the stressors as effectively as
possible Ex: cardiac Increased Heart beat rate
Resistance Stage:
Here our body tries to cope or adapt to the stressors by beginning a process of repairing any
damage the stressor has caused. Your friends, family or co-workers may notice changes in you
before you do so it is important to examine their feedback to make sure you do not reach
overload Ex: Behavioral, Emotional Cognitive Indicators.
Exhaustion Stage:
In this stage the stressors is not being managed effectively and the body and mind are not
able to repair the damage Ex: insomnia, headache, Loss of Temper.
Coping with Stress:
Coping refers to the use of strategies to deal with problems, real or anticipated, and any
possible negative emotions that may arise. This approach helps us to control our reactions to the
demands placed upon us. We use actions, thoughts and feelings to cope.
Problem-Focused Coping is aimed at changing a situation or its accompanying demands. It is
most appropriate when you have some control over a situation or when you can manage the
problem in the environment. It uses specific activities to accomplish a task.
Emotion-Focused Coping is aimed at dealing with the emotions caused by a situation and its
demands. It is more appropriate when you have little or no control over a situation. This type of
coping involves reducing anxiety associated with the stressful situation without addressing the
problem.
Coping Strategies:
The Coping Strategies can be broadly divided into two types and they are as follows:
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