Question

Phase One: Alarm Reaction (reactions/results occur within minutes and hours--people can die within this stage if the stressor is extreme)
Phase Two: Stage of Resistance (when you still feel the physiological response in your body over a period of days, weeks and months, even years if you keep reliving the event)
Phase Three: Stage of Exhaustion (death occurs after long-time exposure to the stress... often times you don't even feel physiological signs anymore because your body is used to it)

1. Several months ago you witnessed a person falling from a building and still can’t sleep at night. You grind your teeth during the day. You can still feel your heart racing.

2.You suffer a stroke a year after retiring from your 30 year stressful job as an air traffic controller.

3. A deer runs in front of your car and you stop in the nick of time.

4. A child is burned over half of his body and although doctors try valiantly to save him, he dies five hours after his arrival to the hospital.

5. You have been in drama club for two years. Each time you think about going on stage, you get all sorts of physiological reactions as your stomach churns, your muscles get tight and you get headaches.

6. After caring for his ailing wife for over eight years, a man dies of a heart attack a month after his wife’s passing.

7. A man dies in his yard of heat stroke after shoveling a trench in 90 degree heat.

8. Your current college load of biology, history and English 101 are taking its toll on you. You have difficulty falling asleep and you get frequent headaches. You can't seem to shake this darn cold that you caught.

Answer 1

1. Several months ago you witnessed a person falling from a building and still can’t sleep at night. You grind your teeth during the day. You can still feel your heart racing.

Answer. This is Phase Two: Stage of Resistance. (you still feel the physiological response in your body over a period of days, weeks and months, even years if you keep reliving the event)

2. You suffer..

Answer.  Phase Three: Stage of Exhaustion (death occurs after long-time exposure to the stress... often times you don't even feel physiological signs anymore because your body is used to it)

3. A Deer..

Answer.  Phase One: Alarm Reaction (reactions/results occur within minutes and hours--people can die within this stage if the stressor is extreme)

4. 4. A child dies..

Answer.  Phase One: Alarm Reaction (reactions/results occur within minutes and hours--people can die within this stage if the stressor is extreme)

5. You have been in a drama...

Answer.  

Phase Two: Stage of Resistance (when you still feel the physiological response in your body over a period of days, weeks and months, even years if you keep reliving the event)

6. After caring for his wife..

Answer.  Phase Three: Stage of Exhaustion (death occurs after long-time exposure to the stress... often times you don't even feel physiological signs anymore because your body is used to it)

7. A man dies..

Answer.  Phase One: Alarm Reaction (reactions/results occur within minutes and hours--people can die within this stage if the stressor is extreme)

8. Your current college...

Answer.  

Phase Two: Stage of Resistance (when you still feel the physiological response in your body over a period of days, weeks and months, even years if you keep reliving the event)