SDS150R Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sympathetic Nervous System, Stress Management, Palliative Care
28 Sep 2016
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Composed of a stressor and your reaction to it. Coping is what we do to deal with stress. Adaptive coping is a very effective way of dealing with stress, it reduces or eliminates the stressor. Your health behaviours and environmental factors influence how one reacts to stressors. And so health and environment can cause stressors to be perceived more or less by an individual. To help people identify their stressors, develop more accurate perceptions, learn to relax. The optimal level or arousal decreases as a task"s difficulty increase. Physically your body prepares for action - fight or flight - and begins increasing your heart rate and breathing and other parts of the sympathetic nervous system. Psychologically, thoughts interact with the body to increase or decrease the physical arousal. Feelings can be positive or negative depending on how you perceive the stressor. If you feel like you have control over the stressor it can cause happy and excited feelings.
