Employee Stress

What Is Stress?

• Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

• Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand.

Forms of stress

• General stress• Cumulative stress• Acute traumatic stress• Post traumatic stress

General stress

• Everyone has this kind of stress

• It resolves itself within a day or two

• No intervention is necessarily required.

Cumulative stress

• Stress builds up in your body

• It becomes more difficult to alleviate your symptoms

• You may have more serious physical symptoms and mental anguish

Acute traumatic stress

• Critical incident stress• Produces

considerable physiological distress

• A normal reaction to abnormal events

Post traumatic stress

• Severe stress produced by severe physiological trauma

• Created by unresolved critical incident stress

• Produces lasting changes

Causes of stress

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Implications of stress

Approaches to stress management

Ventilation

To improve air quality

• Ban smoking • Open windows • Have plants in the room.

Benefits of stress management