Health, Strand 2, Day 1

Objectives:

To define and discuss stress, anxiety, and depression
To identify, describe, and provide coping techniques for individual stressors (both stress and eustress)

Daily Quotation: "Anxiety is nothing more than repeatedly experiencing failure in advance."

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Write the definitions for the following terms on page 56 in your books:

Stress: Any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain
Distress: Negative stress
Eustress: Positive stress
Anxiety: a feeling of stress, nervousness, uneasiness, or apprehensiveness
Depression: Sadness, discouragement or despair over a long period of time.

Videos on Anxiety:

Quietly do pages 58 and 59 in your books. Talk about them with your table buddies

Story about Jessie Owens and Luz Long in the 1936 Olympics (Overcoming stress)

Visual Imagery