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Meeting Life Challenges - Coggle Diagram

- - - - physical:demands that change the state of our body
      - environmental: aspects of our surroundings that are often unavoidable
    - - frustration: results from blocking of needs and motives by something or someone that hinders us from achieving a desired goal
      - conflicts: may occur between two or more incompatible needs or motives
      - internal pressure: stems from beliefs based upon expectations from inside us to ourselves
      - social pressure: stems from people who make excessive demands on us
    - - these are induced externally and result from our interaction with other people
  - - - feelings of anxiety and depression, increased physical tension, increased psychological tension and mood swings
    - - release of epinephrine and nor-epinephrine, slowing down of the digestive system, expansion of air passages in the lungs, increased heart rate and constriction of blood vessels
    - - poor concentration, reduced short term memory capacity
    - - disrupted sleep patterns, increased absenteeism and reduced work performance
- - - - obtaining info. about the stressful situation and about alternative courses of action and their probable outcome
    - - involves efforts to maintain hope and to control one's emotions, venting feelings of anger and frustration
    - - denying or minimising the seriousness of the situation, conscious suppression of stressful thoughts and their replacement by self protective thoughts
  - - - attack the problem itself
    - - psychological changes to limit emotional disruption