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Submitted by: Nera, Phil Harold P.

Submitted to: Ms. Calderon

1. What is stress?
Stress is the body's reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response.
The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional responses. Stress is a
normal part of life. You can experience stress from your environment, your body, and your
thoughts. Even positive life changes such as a promotion, a mortgage, or the birth of a child
produce stress.

2. What are the negative symptoms of unmanaged stress?

 Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and personality disorders

 Cardiovascular disease, including heart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart
rhythms, heart attacks, and stroke

 Obesity and other eating disorders

 Menstrual problems

 Sexual dysfunction, such as impotence and premature ejaculation in men and loss of
sexual desire in both men and women

 Skin and hair problems, such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema, and permanent hair loss

 Gastrointestinal problems, such as GERD, gastritis, ulcerative colitis, and irritable colon

3. What is burnout?
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and
prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to
meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest and motivation
that led you to take on a certain role in the first place.

Burnout reduces productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling increasingly helpless,
hopeless, cynical, and resentful. Eventually, you may feel like you have nothing more to give.

The negative effects of burnout spill over into every area of life—including your home, work, and
social life. Burnout can also cause long-term changes to your body that make you vulnerable to
illnesses like colds and flu. Because of its many consequences, it’s important to deal with
burnout right away.

4. What is Trauma?
In general, trauma can be defined as a psychological, emotional response to an event or an
experience that is deeply distressing or disturbing. When loosely applied, this trauma definition
can refer to something upsetting, such as being involved in an accident, having an illness or
injury, losing a loved one, or going through a divorce. However, it can also encompass the far
extreme and include experiences that are severely damaging, such as rape or torture.

Because events are viewed subjectively, this broad trauma definition is more of a guideline.
Everyone processes a traumatic event differently because we all face them through the lens of
prior experiences in our lives. For example: one person might be upset and fearful after going
through a hurricane, but someone else might have lost family and barely escaped from a
flooded home during Hurricane Katrina. In this case, a minor Category One hurricane may bring
up traumatic flashbacks of their terrifying experience.

Because trauma reactions fall across a wide spectrum, psychologists have developed
categories as a way to differentiate between types of trauma. Among them are complex trauma,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and developmental trauma disorder.

5. Causes of stress
Causes of work stress include:

 Being unhappy in your job

 Having a heavy workload or too much responsibility

  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

Causes of life stress include:

 The death of a loved one

 Divorce

 Loss of a job

 Increase in financial obligations

 Getting married

 Moving to a new home

 Chronic illness or injury

 Emotional problems (depression, anxiety, anger, grief, guilt, low self-esteem)

 Taking care of an elderly or sick family member

 Traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, theft, rape, or violence against you or a
loved one