PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

STRESS  Brain Stem – involuntary movements (breathing,

heart rate, blood pressure, digestions)
- Emotional factor that causes bodily and
mental tension DRUGS
- Negative emotion gives us stress
- Body’s responses to a demand that we need  Inhalants – destroys the outer lining of the nerve
to adjust, adapt, or respond to cell that makes you unable to communicate
 Marijuana – hinders memory, learning,
Causes: judgment, reaction time
 Ecstasy – destroys neurons that make serotonin
- Loss
chemical crucial for sleep, violence, sexual urges
- Stress
 Steroids – causes aggression, violent, and mood
Good Stress – eutress swings

Bad Stress - distress, chronic type (burnout, PERSONAL PREFERENCE

breakdown, deposition)
Left Dominance Right Dominance
Stressors – causes of stress Classical Music Popular Music
Being on time Good times
Stress Signals – manifestations (physical, Careful planning To visualize the
emotional, behavioral) outcome
- Daily frustration To consider alternative To go with the first idea
- Personal problem Being thoughtful Being active
- Transitions in life Monopoly, scrabble, Athletics. art, music
chess
Steps to manage stress: Logic Creativity
Reasoning Imagination
1. Understand the causes of stress. Written Intuition
2. Analyze your stress factors and write them Right hand control Left hand control
down. Science and Math Holistic thought
3. Deal woth the stressors.
SELF-ESTEEM
4. Learn to work under pressure/unusual
conditions. - How much you feel you are worth
- How much you feel other people will value
BRAIN you
 Cerebrum – largest part (85%) BODY IMAGE
- FRONTAL LOBE: personality and emotion
- PARIETAL LOBE: understand what we see - how you view your physical self
and feel
- TEMPORAL LOBE: hearing and word MENTAL HEALTH
recognition
- How your thoughts, actions, feelings, and
- OCCIPITAL LOBE: vision
behavior affect your way of life
 Cerebellum – voluntary movements
- NEURONS: functioning unit of the Nervous Mental Health Illnesses
System
- SYNAPSE: gap - One in five people
- NEUROTRANSMITTERS: chemicals - 2nd to heart desease in causing disability
essential for synapse (axom, dendrite, nerve - Onset symptoms appear during 15 to 24
cell) years old

Mrs. Shellah Dapitan-Rojas

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
- 50% don’t get help (stigma, lack of - Thinks something bad will happen again
awareness and facility, fear of rejection)
- 30% have substance use disorder
(concurrent disorder)
1. Anxiety (Panic Disorder) – sudden and often
nervousness
- PANIC ATTACKS: strong and sudden
feelings of stress and fear
- Fear of going to places because of fear of
having attacks
2. Bipolar Disorder – changes way people feel
emotions
- MANIC: intense feeling of happiness
- DEPRESSION: intense feeling of sadness
and tiredness
3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
- Makes hard to focus and sit still, finish
things
- Makes thoughts jump around
4. Depression – makes people very sad at the
same time and hard to think
- Change how you feel, act, think
- Make body feel sick
- Don’t know why they feel so sad
5. Schizophrenia – hard to know what is real and
what is not
- Makes brain sees/hears things aren’t really
there
- Think people are trying to control/read them
6. Autism Spectrum Disorder – changes how the
brain understand the world
- Hard time talking about their feelings
- Sensitive about being touched
- Can be good at math and music
7. Eating Disorders – persons thoughts and
behaviors are focused too much on food and
body image
- worry being “too fat” or have a huge fear of
being obese
(1) Anorexia: weight loss due to not eating
(2) Bulimia: eating large amount of food
and try to get rid of it (purging)
(3) Extreme overeating: excessive eating
and then have feelings of guilt and
shame
8. Post Traumatic Disorder (PTSD) – feel scared
even if they are safe
- Kids may have bad dreams that may seem
real
Mrs. Shellah Dapitan-Rojas