Managing Stress and Coping with Loss

1. Managing Stress and Coping with Loss Rebecca Mendoza Claudia Chavarria Andrea Morin Leslie Cobos Melissa Aguirre Daisy Tarrango

2. Stress and Your Health Section 1

3. What is Stress? • The body’s and mind’s response to a demand. What causes Stress? • Stress can be caused by many factors called stressors • A Stressor is any situation that puts a demand on the body or mind.

4. There Are Different Types of Stressors • Environmental Stressor • Biological Stressor • Thinking Stressor • Behavioral Stressor • Life changing Stressor

5. Environmental Stressor Biological Stressor Conditions that make it difficult for your body to take part in daily activities Illness injuries • Conditions or events in your physical environment that causes you stress • Loud Noises • Crowding • Natural Disasters

6. Thinking Stressor Behavioral Stressor Unhealthy Behaviors Lack of sleep Drinking alcohol Drugs Smoking • Any type of mental challenge that can cause stress • Tests • Homework

7. Life Changing Stressor • Any major life change. Whether it is positive or negative • Changing Schools • A death • Marriage

8. Physical Response to Stress • The way your body acts towards a situation • This prepares your body to response fast and in the right way to the stressor • This is called a fight-or-flight response • Your body releases energy and strength for you to be able to respond to the stressor • Your body releases epinephrine • also called adrenaline, and it is one of the hormones that prepare the body for quick action.

9. Adrenaline • Triggers Following changes • Faster Breathing • Faster heartbeat • Muscles tense up • Pupils of your eyes get wider • Digestion slows down • Blood Sugar increases

10. Emotional and behavioral Response to Stress Positive Negative Distress make you sick or keeps you from reaching goals You will have distress Keep away from reaching goals • Eustress • energizes and helps reach goals • Help you motivate you to do better • Feel Alert and lively

11. How do you get Positive Stress? • Be optimistic • Concentrate on what you can control • Have confidence in yourself • SMILE!!!

12. The general adaptation syndrome Model that describes relationship between stress and disease

13. Learning to manage stress helps you have a healthier life!

14. Dealing With Stress Section 2

15. Stress • Now • Later

16. Exercise Daily • Will help you stay physically and mentally healthy • It relieves tension • Tension • physical effect of stress marked by straining muscles • Health problems such as tension, headaches, and heart disease can result from long term stress

17. Get enough Sleep • 9 hours of sleep would be very healthy • Not getting sleep can lead to exhaustion • Can cause illness • You can be less alerted and less capable of dealing with a stressor.

18. Eat Properly • Eating healthy gives you vitamins, minerals and energy. • You need this for everyday demands • It helps your immune system to function properly • This helps defend you from stress related to illness

19. Learn to Relax • Breathing exercises • Deep Breathing • Fill lungs with air instead of taking shallow breaths • Brings more oxygen to body • Helps muscles and organs function more effectively • Keeps brain alerted and focused • Heart rate slows down • Blood pressure drops

20. Learn to Relax • Tension-Releasing exercise • Start by tensing your muscles such as the shoulders • People have different ways to release tension • Listening to music • Playing guitar • Reading a book

21. Build Resiliency • Resiliency • The ability to recover from illness, hardship, and other stressors • Resiliency people • Continue to be positive when life gets tough • Accomplish difficult tasks • People ask “How did they do that?” • Get their strengths from their asset

22. Resiliency people • Resilient people will ask for help • Family • Friends • Teachers • School counselors • Neighbors • Community leaders • Religious leaders

23. Change your Attitude • Use Positive Self-Talk • Say or think positive to yourself • Be confident about yourself • The better you feel about yourself, the more positive your perception of the situation will be • The more positive your perception, the more positive your response and consequences will be. • Don’t worry about things out of your control • Accept the things you can’t change • Make the best out of the situation • Put your energy in things you can control

24. According to Robert Cooper from ICE(Interactive Customer Evaluation)For Instant Calm… • Step one • Uninterrupted breathing • Step two • Positive face • Smile • Step three • Balance posture • Chest high • Head up • Neck long • Chin in • Pelvis and hips level • Back comfortably straight • Abdomen free of tension • Step four • Wave of relaxation • Scan unnecessary tension in body • Imagine standing waterfall • Step 5 • Mental control • Acknowledge reality • Break patterns of • negative thinking • wishing a situation weren’t happening • Think • "What's happening is real and I'm finding the best possible solution right now."

25. Coping with Loss Section 3

26. Effects of loss • Causes for effects of loss are… • death of family members • divorce • death of pet • breakups • moving away from home

27. Loss can cause… • stress • physical and emotional changes due to stress • Developing tension • blood pressure • Stress leads to stress related illness

28. Grieving • expressing deep sadness from a loss • It may help you heal from pain of loss • You may feel agitated or angry, guilty • Grieving happens unexpectedly because of memories or reminders from the loss • After time of this period of grieve you may start feeling more positive • Journey to recovery called grieving process

29. The Grieving Process

30. Funerals, wakes, and memorial services • Wake • A ceremony that is for family and friends to see the deceased person before the funeral and know that there was a loss • Funeral • ceremony were the deceased person is buried or cremated • Memorial Service • a service to remember the deceased person wish can be weeks, months, or even years after the death

31. Help For Dealing with Loss For Yourself For Others Show your support Tell person that you’re with them Tell and make them understand about the loss • Rest, relax and stick to routines • Share memories • Don’t blame yourself or others

32. Preventing Suicide Section 4

33. Facts about suicide • Suicide is when someone intentionally takes their own life • People usually attempt or commit suicide because they feel hopeless or feel emotional pain • Suicide is not the answer

34. Ways to prevent suicide • They usually think about suicide it is usually for only a short period of time • After failing to committing suicide they usually feel grateful to be alive • Attempting suicide is a warning or asking for help in an indirect way • Drugs and alcohol cause suicidal thoughts because judgment is impaired • Suicide should always be taken seriously and an adult should be informed

35. Teens and Suicide • Suicide is preventable and you are the best person to protect yourself from it • What you can do • Stop and think about the consequences • Talk to someone you trust for their support • Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem

36. Warning words • I wish I were dead • I want to go to sleep and never wake up • I won’t be a problem for you much longer • I won’t have to put up with this much longer • I can’t take it anymore • This pain will be over soon • Nothing matters

37. Statistics

38. Stress and Your Health According to the Workplace stress article… • 69% of employees say that work is a major cause of stress and 41% say that they feel stressed during their work day. • 51% say that the reason of stress during their weekend is that they were not productive during their work. • Health care expenditures for employees with high levels of stress were 46%

39. Stress and Your Health According to www.apapracticecentral.org • 45% of parents don’t realize the stress their child is in. • 47% of adults report that they cant sleep at night. • 45% get angry or irritated • 40% lack of interest • 34% get headaches • 32% emotional • 27% upset stomach

40. Stress and Your Health • In 2010 76% of stress caused by money • 70% caused by work • 65% economy • 58% family responsibilities • 55% relationships • 52% personal health • 52% housing costs • 49% job stability • 47% health problems affecting the family • 30% personal safety

41. Extra Information

42. Suicide • Each year, more than 34,000 suicides occur in the United States. • For Americans, suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death. • More people survive suicide attempts than actually die.

43. Youth Suicide • For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death. • It results in approximately 4400 lives lost each year. • The top three methods used in suicides of young people include firearm (46%), suffocation (37%), and poisoning (8%). • Of the reported suicides in the 10 to 24 age group, 84% of the deaths were males and 16% were females.

44. Get Help • If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 • El Paso Suicide Survivors Support Group • Location: EL Paso MHMR Intake & Crisis Emergency Services Unit on1600 Montana Ave. EL Paso, TX 79902 • Phone: 915-887-3410

45. Cited Sources • American Psychological Association. (2007). Stress in America 2007. Retrieved from • www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/2007-stress.doc • American Psychological Association. (2009). Stress in America 2009. Retrieved from • http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress-exec-summary.pdf • Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A. • (2010, May 5). General format. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ • Cooper, R (2012, July 23). Instant Calm. Retrieved from • http://www.cancerwellnesscenter.org/instant_calm.html • Hammarley, J (2012, June 1). Four Ways to Deal with Stress. Retrieved from • http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/StressManagement/FourWaystoDealWithStress/Four-Ways-to-Deal-with-Stress_UCM_307996_Article.jsp • Knowlton, S (2011, December 20). The Positive Effects of Stress. Retrieved from • http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15537/1/The-Positive-Effects-of-Stress.html • Public relations staff (2009, November 23) APA Stress Survey: Children are more stressed than • parents realize. Retrieved from http://www.apapracticecentral.org/update/2009/11-23/stress-survey.aspx