Please write on a paper what you have found helpful to calm or re-gather yourself when you felt you were about lose control.
All of these actions will help you reconnect the prefrontal cortex with the limbic area and the reptilian brain
When you feel yourself flipping your lid, you can think about this model and how to help your brain calm down”.
As soon as you are relaxer, your brain are integrated, you will again have access to your higher functions such as control planning, attention, impulsive control and empathy.
Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world. It is a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well being.
Lazarus and Folkman (1984)
Thinking
Emotion
Behavior
Challenge
Enthusiasm
Motivations
Envy
Creativity
Proactivity
Cognitive openness
Threat
Irritability
Fear
Anxiety
Avoidance
Escape
Attack
Cognitive closure
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