Life Orientation T1

Coping with Emotions & Treatment Options

  • Trauma: A deeply distressing experience.

  • Grief: Response to loss, especially of a living thing with whom a bond was formed.

  • Loss: Harm or distress from losing something or someone.

  • Anxiety: Intense, excessive worry and fear about everyday situations.

  • General Guidelines for People with Life-Threatening Diseases:

    • Educate yourself about the disease.

    • Make necessary lifestyle changes.

    • Get support from friends and family.

    • Seek medical advice.

    • Maintain a positive outlook.

    • Find a trustworthy doctor and follow medical advice.

    • Surround yourself with caring people.

    • Avoid stressful situations and get enough rest.

    • Join a support group to discuss common problems, successes, and concerns.

Strategies for Managing Diseases

  • Tuberculosis:

  • Diabetes:

  • Epilepsy:

  • HIV and AIDS:

  • COVID-19:

Causes of Diseases

  • Social, economic, and environmental factors.

  • Use of alcohol and tobacco.

  • Poor eating habits and physical inactivity.

Common Diseases

  • Tuberculosis

  • Diabetes

  • Epilepsy

  • Obesity

  • Anorexia

  • HIV and AIDS

  • COVID-19

Definitions of Diseases:

  • Tuberculosis: Infectious bacterial disease affecting the lungs, spread by coughs or sneezes.

  • Diabetes: High blood glucose due to insufficient insulin production or insulin resistance.

    • Type 1: Pancreas produces little to no insulin.

    • Type 2: Body doesn't produce enough insulin or resists insulin.

  • Epilepsy: Nerve cell activity disturbance in the brain, causing seizures.

  • Obesity: Excessive body fat, increasing health risks.

  • Anorexia: Eating disorder with obsession about weight and distorted body image.

  • HIV/AIDS: HIV attacks the immune system; no effective cure.

  • COVID-19: Disease caused by a new coronavirus with symptoms like cough, fever, and shortness of breath. Causes:

    • Social, economic and environmental factors, including use of alcohol and tobacco, unbalanced diet and physical inactivity.

  • TB: Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol affects lungs and heart, resulting in poor eating habits, weakening the body and lead to contracting to TB.

  • Diabetes: High blood pressure, Obesity, Imbalances in your immune system that attacks the cells that produce insulin, Physical inactivity, Drinking too much alcohol

  • HIV/AIDS: Transmission from an infected mother to the unborn child during pregnancy/birth and breastfeeding, Having unprotected sex with an infected person, Sharing needles and razors with an infected person, Physical inactivity, Unbalanced diet

  • Causes of obesity: Overweight Overeating, Inactive lifestyle, Depression and boredom and drinking too much alcohol.

  • Anorexia: Unbalanced diet, Deny that you have a problem, Obsession about being slim

VAK Learning Styles

  • Visual: Learns best through pictures, diagrams, and charts.

    • Tips: graphic organizers, redraw pages, use symbols, highlight key terms, study with visuals.

  • Auditory: Prefers listening.

    • Tips: record notes, discuss topics, reread notes aloud, attend discussions, ask questions.

  • Kinesthetic: Prefers physical experience; hands-on approach.
    Tips: redo experiments, use pictures, include examples, talk about notes, use senses.

  • Reading/Writing: Uses repetition of words and writing; taking down notes.

Characteristics of Unhealthy Relationships:

  • Control

  • Dependence

  • Digital Monitoring

  • Dishonesty

  • Disrespect

  • Hostility

  • Harassment

  • Intimidation

  • Physical Violence

Characteristics of Healthy Relationships:

  • Safety

  • Honesty

  • Acceptance

  • Respect

  • Enjoyment

Sexting

  • Sending inappropriate pictures over cell phones.

    • partly or completely naked or in your underwear

    • posing in a sexual position

    • sending 'nudes'

  • Illegal in South Africa: infringes on the human right of dignity.

Five Facts on Sexting:

  1. Teenage girls sext for a joke, to feel sexy, or due to pressure.

  2. Sexts are shared with others.

  3. Teens send nudes to people they've never met.

  4. Sending/receiving sexually suggestive content under 18 = child pornography.

  5. Many high school and college students have been involved in nude sexting.

Peer Pressure

  • A feeling that one must do the same things as other people of one's age and social group are doing, in order to be liked or respected by one's peers.

Problem Solving Strategy:

  • A- Ask yourself questions

  • S- Say NO to negative pressures

  • K- Know positive.options

How to Initiate and Sustain Relationships

  1. Do Not Criticize, Condemn or Complain

  2. Be Generous with Praise

  3. Remember Their Name

  4. Be Genuinely Interested in Other People

  5. Be Quick to Acknowledge Your Own Mistakes

  6. Don't Attempt To "Win" An Argument

  7. Begin on Common Ground

  8. Make People Feel Important