Coping With Stress And Preventing Burnout

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Coping With Stress And Preventing Burnout
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• Define Stress
• Emotional and physical tension

• STRESS MANAGEMENT
• Efforts to control and reduce tension that occurs
  with a difficult or unmanageable situation
• Stress is neither good or bad it is cumulative
  very personal. The body responds to what it
  perceives!

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How much stress do you have?

• Negative attitude is a predictor of stress.
• Physical well-being impacts stress level.
• Support systems can help coping ability.
• Spend a little time each day analyzing what has
  stressed you in the past 24 hours.

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Acute Stress

• Short Term usually treatable manageable
• Emotional distress irritability, anxiety
• Physical distress muscular tension, stomach
  bowel problems
• Symptoms Elevated blood pressure, dizziness,
  heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of
  breath, migraine headaches

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Chronic Stress

• LONG TERM may destroy body or life
• Unhappy relationships
• Poverty
• Despised job or career
• Chronic stress results when a person never
• sees a way out of a miserable situation.
• Recovery may require professional help.

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Individual Stress Management - Find ways to
release your pain so it does not hold power over
you.

• Refocus negative thoughts.
• Plan for physical activity take a RECESS!
• Eat foods for health well-being.
• Use relaxation techniques.
• Reach out nurture yourself others.

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