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Are you overstressed?
By admin | November 4, 2007
Stress is a feeling that’s created when we react to particular events. It’s the body’s way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. Feeling stressed is common these days. Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have control over anything? Are you losing sleep worrying about the next day? Or stressing out about the previous week?
What you’re feeling right now is something that most people do from time to time, and you’re not alone. But, you need to find out how stressed are you and how to reduce your stress to minimum.
Although just enough stress can be a good thing, stress overload is a different story – too much stress isn’t good for anyone. For example, feeling stressed about your important meeting can make you prepare even better that you would if not feeling stressed. But, if feeling too stressed can make things worse – stressing out about that meeting too much can make you do absolutely nothing about it and make you unprepared.
Some stressful situations can be extreme and may require special attention and care. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a very strong stress reaction that can develop in people who have lived through an extremely traumatic event, such as a serious car accident, a natural disaster like an earthquake, or an assault like rape.
Some people have anxiety problems that can cause them to overreact to stress, making even small difficulties seem like crises. If a person frequently feels tense, upset, worried, or stressed, it may be a sign of anxiety. Anxiety problems usually need attention, and many people turn to professional counselors for help in overcoming them.
There are some signs that you might be overstressed:
1. physical symptoms, such as stomach pain or severe headache
2. having panic attacks about the situation
3. irritability and moodiness
4. having problems sleeping
5. alergic reactions
6. drinking, smoking or eating too much
7. feeling depressed and/or sad
Recognizing stress is very important, because when you do, you can cope with it and find the best way to deal with it. So, what can you actually do?
The most helpful method of dealing with stress is learning how to manage the stress that comes along with any new challenge, good or bad. Stress-management skills work best when they’re used regularly, not just when the pressure’s on.
Here are some things that can help you reduce your stress level:
1. First, get a good night sleep. rest and go to the far away land, where you can relax and leave all your problems and stress producing situations. Getting enough sleep helps keep your body and mind in top shape, making you better equipped to deal with any negative stressors.
2. Try to be as realistic as possible. Expecting only the best and trying to be perfect isn’t a good thing, and will never be. You need to realize that nobody IS perfect.
3. Don’t overschedule yourself. Try to keep you your schedule “normal”, don’t make arrangements and plans that you feel you cannot meet.
4. Learn how to relax. Relaxation response is your body’s opposite of stress, and it creates a sense of well-being and calm. The chemical benefits of the relaxation response can be activated simply by relaxing. You can help trigger the relaxation response by learning simple breathing exercises and then using them when you’re caught up in stressful situations.
5. Be good to yourself and your body. Eat healthy, reward yourself sometimes and get the best out of your nutrition.
6. Solve the little problems first. By doing this, you will feel better about yourself and will get the encouragement to deal with more stressful situations with the littlest possible amount of stress.
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