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Depression/Stress
What is depression?
Symptoms of depression.
Types of depression.
Causes of depression
Management of depression
What is depression?
Depression is a "whole-body"
illness, involving your body, mood,
and thoughts. It affects the way you
eat and sleep, the way you feel
about yourself, and the way you
think about things.
Symptoms of
depression
Changes in Thinking
Changes in feeling
Changes in Behavior
Low self-esteem
Environmental factors
Individual factors
Stress
Stress: The human
reaction to events
in our environment
Getting engaged
Difficult work
environment
Overwhelming sights
and sounds
Unspecified depression
Bipolar depression
Depression
is caused
by
STRESS !!!
FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
1. General Stress:
It resolves itself
within a day or two
No intervention is
necessarily required
FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
2. Cumulative Stress:
Stress builds up in your
body
It becomes more difficult
to alleviate your
symptoms
You may have more
serious physical
symptoms
You may have more
serious mental anguish
FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
3. Acute Traumatic
Stress:
Produces considerable
psychological distress
A normal reaction to
abnormal events
FOUR TYPES OF
STRESS
4. Post Traumatic Stress:
Created by unresolved
Critical Incident Stress
Produces lasting
changes
General Adaptation
Syndrome
Stage I - Alarm Reaction
The fight or flight response which
causes you to be ready for physical
activity
Diet :
Diet plays indirect role in stress management. Foods
with high sugar content stimulate or prolong the
stress response and high-cholesterol foods
adversely affect blood chemistry.
Individual Approaches
to Managing Stress
Opening up :
We all experience traumatic events in life. A
healthy response to these moments or periods
of personal crisis is to confide in others.
Individuals who wrote once a week about
traumatic events had healthier outlooks and
lower absenteeism.
Individual Approaches
to Managing Stress
Professional help:
Sometimes people have problem coping on
their own and they seek professional help or
clinical counseling. People who want this kind
of help can choose among psychological
counseling, career counseling, financial and
family counseling, physical therapy, medical
treatment, surgical intervention and stress
debriefing.
FOLLOW ONE MANTRA:
HEALTHY
LIVING
HEALTHY LIVING TO
CONQUER STRESS
Examine your diet Add to your diet
Lower your salt Vegetables
intake Fruits
Lower your intake of Complex
refined sugars and Carbohydrates
carbohydrates Vitamins
Lower your caffeine Water
intake
HEALTHY LIVING
Rest:
Get a minimum of
six hours of
continuous rest
HEALTHY LIVING
Exercise:
At least twenty
minutes, five times
a week
break a sweat, to
release endorphins
HEALTHY LIVING
Delegate things
when you need to
HEALTHY LIVING
Learn to manage
your anger
Rethink the
situation and learn
to be more flexible
HEALTHY LIVING
Fill your life with fun
things to do!!!!
We call it :
PLAY THERAPY
HEALTHY LIVING
Take charge of your
life.
Act appropriately -
dont simply react to
stressful situations
Alcohol
Drugs
Medicines & Pills
HEALTHY LIVING
We all need a
lengthy list of things
that will help us
relax..
I love Gardening.
HEALTHY LIVING
Relaxing needs to
be part of your daily
routine.
HEALTHY LIVING
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