KP231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Palpitations, The Good Life, Tachypnea
17 Jan 2018
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Misinterpretations about stress and stress management techniques are not harmful in themselves: start to act on beliefs, may lead to physical or psychological harm. Points about stress: part of everyday life, need to be controlled in positive manner, detrimental outcomes, stress and related problems cost canadian business billions of dollars every year. Immediate environment has the potential to be threatening: ability to change, ability to control or adapt to threatening change, can be enriching, challenging, stimulating, rewarding, viewed negatively or handled poorly, can result in stress, disruptive to health. Points to remember: stressors precede stress development, stressor are the cause, stress is the effect, variation in stress response, a stressor for one person may not be a stressor for another, perception is important, ex. Persian proverb i murmured i had no shoes until i saw a man with no feet.
