419: Understanding Stress And Its Stages
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gina discusses stress and three stages by which people respond to stress, originally identified by stress researcher Hans Selye: Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion. Gina goes on to describe a number of steps by which we can manage our stress mindfully. The use of writing is noted as particularly useful in our efforts to improve our response to stress.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's episode is talking about stages of stress. |
| 0:35.0 | On to the stages of stress. |
| 0:38.0 | So there are a lot of different definitions of stress, |
| 0:42.0 | and one of them is from the original father of stress research |
| 0:46.0 | Hans Salier. He was actually pretty big still in the day when I was working on my anxiety and panic and he |
| 0:57.1 | really coined the term stress and he says the nonspecific adaptation response of the body to any demand or |
| 1:09.3 | problem is his definition of stress. |
| 1:13.4 | Let's hear that again. |
| 1:14.8 | The nonspecific adaptation response of the body to any demand or problem. Now I want to say here that the idea of demand or problem are |
| 1:28.4 | important to take note of because we could have demands on us that aren't necessarily negative. |
| 1:36.4 | They could be positive. |
| 1:39.6 | A demand on you of getting married, a demand on you of taking the kids to Disney World, |
| 1:45.4 | the demand of going to Disney World when you're a kid. It's exciting, it's |
| 1:50.6 | thrilling, but it is a demand on your physiology and your psychology because it's big |
| 1:57.6 | changes. So he described a process of how we can respond to stress called general adaptation syndrome |
| 2:07.3 | consisting of three stages these will be somewhat familiar to you because you have been in this. |
| 2:15.0 | The first stage he called alarm. |
| 2:19.0 | The second stage he called resistance and the third stage he called exhaustion. |
| 2:28.4 | I'm sure that just those words alone are ringing a bell with some of you, unfortunately, but there is a way to keep |
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