Stress Test

Question 1

What is Stress?

Answer 1

is a feeling of emotional or physical tension

• caused by an event or thought that invokes frustration, anger, or nervousness

Question 2

What is distress?

Answer 2

stress that negatively affects you

Question 3

What is eustress?

Answer 3

positive stress

Question 4

What causes stress?

Answer 4

is caused by physical, psychological, psycho-social, and psycho-spiritual stress
-major life changes -relationship diff.
-work/school ps -finances

Question 5

Why is stress not the same for everyone?

Answer 5

difference in personalities, values, and goals can all lead to different effects of stress on people

Question 6

What are the stages of stress?

Answer 6

1st Alarm
2nd Resistance
3rd Exhaustion

Question 7

What is the Alarm stage?

Answer 7

body goes into fight or flight mode, releasing endorphins for energy

Question 8

What is the Resistance stage?

Answer 8

causes insomnia and increased heart rate leading to hypertension and more health problems

Question 9

What is the Exhaustion stage?

Answer 9

necessary for the body to heal from fight or flight

Question 10

5 main symptom of stress

Answer 10

1. Headaches - common for tension-type
2. High blood pressure - hormones are released causing increased heart rate and blood vessels to narrow
3. Depression - severe or prolonged stress can cause a hormone imbalance disrupting brain function causing depression
4. Panic attacks - after fight or flight mode, body releases a sudden flood of adrenaline which many cause panic attacks
5. Overeating - body releases cortisol which is meant to protect the body, when released for prolonged amount of time, can lead to increased food consumption, stored in adipose tissue

Question 11

How does stress affect heart disease?

Answer 11

long-term stress causes high levels of cortisol, increasing blood cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure

Question 12

How does stress affect cancer?

Answer 12

chronic stress can weaken your immune system, leaving you more prone to diseases like cancer,

also speeds up the development of cancerous tumors

Question 13

How does stress affect COVID-19?

Answer 13

stress weakens your immune system making you prone to infectious diseases,

can also lead to COVID symptoms to remain

Question 14

How does stress affect Chronic lower respiratory diseases?

Answer 14

trigger of adrenaline, increasing heart rate and expanding air passages of heart to take up more oxygen cause

increase to susceptibility to diseases and disorders such as asthma, hypertension, and upper respiratory diseases as well as lower

Question 15

How does stress affect Alzheimer’s disease?

Answer 15

elevated stress exacerbates the disease, causing rapid development of pathology and loss in cognitive function

Question 16

Stress with learning

Answer 16

can impair cognitive function, attention, and memory retrieval leading to difficulties concentrating and processing info

Question 17

Stress with memory

Answer 17

prolonged circulation of stress hormones cause impaired long-term delay recall memory, but enhances short-term memory relative to emotional memory

Question 18

Stress with physical health

Answer 18

increases the risk of hypertension, heart attack, and stroke

Question 19

Stress with sleep

Answer 19

prolongs the duration it takes to fall asleep which causes the body’s stress response from lack of sleep to further be disrupted

Question 20

Stress with social interactions

Answer 20

causes individuals to retract from social interactions and become irritable and hostile

Question 21

What is stress management?

Answer 21

is meant to reduce negative impacts caused by stress and to improve a person’s physical and mental well-being

Question 22

Stress management techniques: Avoid

Answer 22

taking control of ones surrounding environment
- closing an app setting the phone aside
- leaving the room

Question 23

Stress management techniques: Alter

Answer 23

organizing your schedule or changing the way you cope with your stress

Question 24

Stress management techniques: Adapt

Answer 24

some stressors are a part of life as it’s a reality worth understanding, by changing your perspective can you live healthier

Question 25

Stress management techniques: Accept

Answer 25

be open rather than closed off as you won’t gain anything, helps move on from the pain of stress

Question 26

Stress management techniques: Active

Answer 26

the brain is a muscle which needs exercise to remain functioning, by being active, it enhances memory, mood, and sleep which reduces tension and worry, therefore stress

Question 27

Causes stress: Relationships

Answer 27

changes or interactions can cause stress

Question 28

Stress management techniques: Work

Answer 28

finances and work-life balance can feel burdening which impact sleep along with stress and then into a vicious cycle

Question 29

Stress management techniques: Family

Answer 29

reputation and expectations can bring worry accompanied by stress

Question 30

Stress management techniques: Disturbed Sleep

Answer 30

interruption of sleep causes lack of sleep then a cycle

Question 31

Stress management techniques: Big Changes

Answer 31

change is a scary concept to humans, unknown garners worry and stress, good to be wary but one must also be accepting