Module 5 Perdev

MODULE 5
COPING WITH STRESS IN MIDDLE

AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module you will able to:
1. Discuss that understanding stress and its source during late adolescence
may help in identifying ways to cope and have a healthful life.
2. Identify sources of your stress and illustrate the effect of stress on your
system, and
3. Demonstrate personal ways of coping with stress for healthful living
STRESS MANAGEMENT
One of the Webster’s definitions describes it as an ‘emotional factor that
causes bodily or mental tension.
A practical way of defining stress is the feeling one gets from prolonged
penr up-emotions.
Do not confuse positive situations with positive emotions.
CAUSES AND EFFECT
• ANXIETY
• PRESSURE
• MISERY
• STRAIN
• DESPERATION
• TENSION
• ANGER, PANIC DEJECTION,
Prolonged stress can be devastating: burnout, breakdown, and depression are
some of the potential results of long term unmanaged stress.
EVERYDAY FRUSTATIONS CAUSE
STRESS BUILD-UP
A series of stressful and frustrating experiences throughout the day can
cause you to lie awake at night in an emotional turmoil. Unable to get
needed rest. You face the next day with less emotional and physical stamina.
After another stressful day and another night without rest, you may have less
emotional, strength and stability. Therefore, stress build up, if not resolved,
continues day after day.
PROBLES IN OUR PERSONAL LIFE
CAN BE DEVASTATING
Surviving the normal, everyday stress described above can be difficult. But
far more serious and painful circumstances can create long term stress.
Separation from loved ones, personal illness, or illness of a loved one, death
of someone you care about, or conflict with a spouse or close friend.
Major causes of stress are problems with drug and alcohol abuse, domestic
violence, care of children and elderly relatives, chronic mental illness,
injury, physical handicaps, even moving to a new home. Managing your
personal finances can be another stressful experience.
A COMMON CAUSE OF STRESS IS
DEALING WITH LIFE’S TRANSITIONS
A person must cope with too many transitions all at once. The move, a new
career, and a change in a family relationships may cause excessive stress for
her. Too many changes have arrived at the same time.
STRESS RESPONSE
Your stress response is the collection of physiological changes that occur
when you face a perceived threat, when you face situation where you feel
the demands outweigh your resources to successfully cope. These situations
are known as ‘stressors’
When your stress response is triggered; a series of changes occur within
your body. They include:
• Redirection of blood away from extremities and instead to major organs
• The release of cortisol and other hormones, which bring other short- and
long term changes.
• The stress response is intended to give you a burst of energy so you're able
to fight off attackers or run away from them effectively.
The stress response can actually cause harm if it leads to a state of chronic
stress that is, if our stress response is triggered, and then our body doesn’t go
back to its normal via the relaxation response.
KEEP STRESS UNDER CONTROL
When stress is constant or too great, your wisest option is to find ways to
reduce or control it. You need not and should not, live your life in emotional
stress and discomfort. Stress can be successfully managed. Here are some
suggestions that may help.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSES OF
STRESS
Understanding why you are under stress is important. This may seem
obvious, but requires deliberate, conscious effort to pause and simply ponder
your situation. By now, you are familiar with the stress response, the
emotional or physical symptoms of uncontrolled stress. Now you need to try
to discover the stressors, the factors of which create the stress in your life.
ANALYZE YOUR STRESS FACTORS
AND WRITE THEM DOWN
Write down your response to stress. Carefully consider each answer, because
the answers will reveal stressors, such as deadlines, anxieties, trying to do so
much, managing time or money poorly, or poor health habits.
DEAL WITH STRESSORS
Develop techniques to deal with the causes of stress. The longer you avoid
dealing with the stress factors, the more stress will build up. If tension
comes because you have put off an unfinished task, restructure your
priorities so you can get the task that you have been avoiding out of the way
and off your mind.
LEARB TO WORK UNDER PRESSURE OR
UNUSUAL CONDITIONS
When the pressure mounts, you can relive it. Relaxation is the key , but most
people must train themselves to relax when the pressure is on.
Some tips to relax when under pressure are the following:
1. Stop for a moment
2. Do some relaxing exercise.
3. Take a power nap.
4. Find time to do the things you enjoy
5. Leave your study area for a while to take a brisk walk
6. Find a quite place to read magazine or novel during break at lunch
7. If possible. Look at some peaceful images such as forests, beaches, etc.
8. Look up
9. Keep something humorous on hand, sunch as abook of jokes.

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