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Stress and Health

Across
A state of psychological tension or strain
Most common mechanism for blocking out painful feelings and memories
Reverting to childlike behaviour and defences
Any attempt to cope with stress sucessful or not
Thinking abstractly about stressful problems as a way of detaching onself from them
Taking on the characteristics of someone else to avoid feelig incompetent
Any environmental demand that creates a state of tension or threat and requires change or adaptation
Tolerate stress exceptionally well or thrive on it
Expressing feelings that would be threatening if directed at the real target onto a less threatening substitute target
Deciding on a more realistic solution or goal when an ideal goal is not practical
Refusal to recognize a threatening situation
Appraise events as challenges rather than threats
Down
Ability to bounce back
Acknowledging a stressful situation directly and attempting to find a solution
Turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behaviour
Avoiding a situation when other forms of coping are not practical
Placing ones own unacceptable thoughts onto others
Forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of ones threatening or unnacceptable actual thoughts
Psychological disorder characterized by episodes of anxiety, sleeplessness, and nightmares resulting from some disturbing past event
More likely to dwell on failure
Unable to concentrate, become irritable, procrastinate, and become cynical that nothing is worthwhile