Science of Stress

This lesson was developed as a follow-up lesson for high school students following a screening of IndieFlix's documentary, ANGST: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety.

This lesson is intended to help you understand what's happening in your brain when you feel anxious so you can better manage your emotional response. We also hope we will all come away with common language for talking about stress and anxiety. Specifically, by the end of the lesson, you will be able to differentiate between good stress and bad stress, explain what's happening in your brain when your stress response system kids in, and recognize what emotional zone your are in so you can make adjustments to self-regulate. (29:46)