Resources
What is Tactical Breathing?
In addition to helping your emotions, controlling how you breathe can regulate your body’s stress responses. Each time you calm your Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and turn on your Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) by slowing and lengthening your breath, you improve your ability to relax quickly and effectively in critical environments. Here is short video to follow along with.
What is Cumulative Stress
Cumulative stress is a common experience for people who work in chronically stressful situations. It results from an accumulation of various stress factors such as heavy workload, poor communications, multiple frustrations, coping with situations in which you feel powerless, and the inability to rest or relax. Cumulative stress progresses through three phases: Early Warning, Mild, and Ingrain symptoms.
What is Chronic Stress
A consistent sense of feeling pressured and overwhelmed over a long period of time, which drains psychological resources and can damage the brain and body.
What is Critical Incident Stress
Workers responding to emergency events and or disasters will see and experience events that will strain their ability to function. These events, which include having to witness or experience tragedy, death, serious injuries, and threatening situations are called "Critical Incidents." The physical and psychological well-being of those experiencing this stress, as well as their future ability to function through a prolonged response, will depend upon how they manage this stress. Post Traumatic Stress Injury differs from critical incident stress by lasting longer than four weeks after the event triggering the emotional, mental or physical response. Most instances of critical incident stress last between two days and four weeks.
