BALANCING LIFE AND WORK

What is STRESS?

• A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes

bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in
disease causation.
• is your body's way of responding to any kind of
demand or threat
 What is
STRESS MANAGEMENT

– Is the ability to recognize situations that may cause

stress, in order to use strategies to prevent the stress
from occurring.
– Wide variety of techniques and psychotherapies
aimed at controlling a person's levels of stress.
– Usually for the purpose of improving everyday
functioning.
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Being unhappy in your job.

Causes of Having a heavy workload or too much responsibility.

STRESS Working long hours.

Having poor management, unclear expectations of your work,

or no say in the decision-making process.
Working under dangerous conditions.

Being insecure about your chance for advancement or risk of

termination.
Having to give speeches in front of colleagues.

Facing discrimination or harassment at work, especially if your

company isn't supportive.
 PHYSICAL BEHAVIOR
• Headaches • Avoidance of tasks
• Fatigue • Difficulty in completing work
• Skin Irritation assignments

• Injury • Smoking more

• Environmental Pollution • Loss of appetite

• Substance Abuse • Restlessness

EMOTIONS MIND

Common • Resentments • Worrying

• Negativity
Causes of • Fears
• Frustration • Hasty Decisions

STRESS • Sadness
• Anger
• Information Overload
• Jealousy
 • Stress is the new normal
• You have trouble making decisions.
• You have a shorter fuse, feeling more impatient and on
edge.
• You criticize your partner and focus on the flaws in your
relationship.
• You eat more or have lost your appetite.
• You’re fatigued most days.
• You either can’t get to sleep or don’t want to get out of
bed.
Stress • You feel less confident about your ability to handle
personal problems.
Signals • Simple things feel hard.
• You’ve started using alcohol, cigarettes, or other
substances more.
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Techniques to handle Stress

 What is ANGER?

• It is the strong emotion that you feel when you think

that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or
unacceptable way.

• A feeling of displeasure resulting from injury,

mistreatment, opposition, etc., and usually showing
itself in a desire to fight back at the supposed cause of
this feeling
ANGER
You lose your control and can no longer
control yourself. You are hitting others and
EXPLOSIVE throwing things. You want to cause harm to

METER
the person you feel hurt you.

You are mad and can’t think clearly. You feel

violated in some way and are experiencing a
ANGRY range of emotions. You are coming close to
saying or doing something you regret.

You are upset about something and even

though you are trying to let it go, you can’t
FRUSTRATED stop thinking about it or talking about it. You
feel you need a break.

Something happened and it bothers you a

MILDLY little bit. It’s not too much of a problem so you
IRRITATED can let it go and move on.

Things are going well and nothing is

bothering you.
CALM
 What is ANGER MANAGEMENT?

• It is the process of learning to recognize signs that you're

becoming angry, and taking action to calm down and deal with
the situation in a productive way.
• Helps you recognize frustrations early and resolve them in a way
that allows you to express your needs and keeps you calm and in
control.
• Anger Management doesn't try to keep you from feeling anger or
encourage you to hold it in.
 Signs that you need help in
controlling your anger

• Regularly feeling that you have to hold in your anger

• Persistent negative thinking and focusing on negative experiences
• Constant feelings of irritation, impatience and hostility
• Frequent arguments with others that escalate frustrations
• Physical violence, such as hitting your partner or children or starting fights
• Threats of violence against people or property
• Out-of-control or frightening behavior, such as breaking things or driving recklessly
• Avoiding situations because of anxiety or depression about anger outbursts
 BEHAVIORAL SIGNS PHYSICAL SIGNS
• Clenching of fist • Rapid Heart Rate
• Pounding of fist on a wall, table • Difficulty Breathing
or any surface
• Headache
• Raising one’s voice
• Stomachache
• Any act of aggression or passive-
• Sweating
aggression
• Feeling hot in the face and neck
EMOTIONAL SIGNS
• Shaking
• Sadness
MENTAL SIGNS
• Irritability
• Difficulty Concentrating
• Guilt
• Obsessing on the situation

REACTIONS
• Resentment
• Thinking vengeful thoughts
• Feeling like you want to hurt

TO ANGER
someone • Cynicism
• Needing to be alone
• Numbness
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