Phase One: Alarm Reaction (reactions/results occur withinminutes and hours--people can die within this stage if the stressoris extreme)
Phase Two: Stage of Resistance (when you still feel thephysiological response in your body over a period of days, weeksand months, even years if you keep reliving the event)
Phase Three: Stage of Exhaustion (death occurs after long-timeexposure to the stress... often times you don't even feelphysiological signs anymore because your body is used to it)
1. Several months ago you witnessed a person falling from abuilding and still can’t sleep at night. You grind your teethduring the day. You can still feel your heart racing.
2.You suffer a stroke a year after retiring from your 30 yearstressful job as an air traffic controller.
3. A deer runs in front of your car and you stop in the nick oftime.
4. A child is burned over half of his body and although doctorstry valiantly to save him, he dies five hours after his arrival tothe hospital.
5. You have been in drama club for two years. Each time youthink about going on stage, you get all sorts of physiologicalreactions as your stomach churns, your muscles get tight and youget headaches.
6. After caring for his ailing wife for over eight years, a mandies of a heart attack a month after his wife’s passing.
7. A man dies in his yard of heat stroke after shoveling atrench in 90 degree heat.
8. Your current college load of biology, history and English 101are taking its toll on you. You have difficulty falling asleep andyou get frequent headaches. You can't seem to shake this darn coldthat you caught.
