Understanding Stress

3. When you don’t get enough of this at night, it can negatively impact your ability to deal with stress, among other negative effects.
4. Emotional, physical and/or mental exhaustion caused by excessive stress over an extended period of time. Working too much for a long period of time is a common cause of this.
7. A place to receive massages, facials, and other self-care services. This is a great business to go to when feeling stressed.
11. The ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress.
13. A treatment that requires physical manipulation of the soft tissues, that varies in techniques. Individuals often feel relaxed after this treatment and may have a reduction in pain.
14. External event or circumstance that causes uncomfortable emotions or psychiatric symptoms.
15. Structured physical activity that’s benefits include improved wellbeing that reduces levels of stress.
17. A mental condition characterized by excessive apprehensiveness about real or perceived threats. People with this condition tend to display avoidance behaviors and physical symptoms such as increased heart rate and muscle tension.
19. It is often referred to as the happy chemical. Your gut produces 95% of this chemical. A lack of this chemical can increase one’s risk for depression.

1. A mental condition characterized by persistent sadness, irritability, and/or feelings of worthlessness.
2. Moderate or normal psychological stress, interpreted as being beneficial.
5. Characterized as negative stress, extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
6. Limiting the intake of this substance can help manage and decrease stress.
8. Your body’s main stress hormone.
9. A general belief that future outcomes will be positive, favorable, and desirable. Individuals that maintain this attitude have less stress.
10. the ability to sense another person’s emotions with the ability to imagine what another person might be going through, thinking, or feeling.
12. The practice of trying to achieve a mentally and emotionally clear and stable state. This is commonly done in a distraction free space, and utilizes mindfulness and breathing techniques. This is a great way to deal with stress.
14. A professional that treats mental conditions through verbal communication. It helps to talk to somebody when feeling stressed!
16. Not only helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed, but it can actually help decrease stress. Clue: When you do this the world will do it back.
18. A form of exercise that has you perform various poses and breathing techniques. This form of exercise improves mobility, and it helps reduce stress.