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Page 1: How to overcome stress

Learn Interesting Facts About Stress And How To Overcome It

How To Overcome

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What Is Stress

• Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way

• Stress response is the body’s way of protecting you as well as helps you rise to meet challenges

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Stress can cause psychological disorders that can also lead to death.

• Work-related stress depression and anxiety is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at work.

• The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work, school or even at home.

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There are two common physical side effects to stress that most people know about.

• Weight gain- stress eating

consumes more calories, and your body actually produces hormones that make you hold onto fat more

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• Insomnia

- Stress can cause sleeping disorders. when you're stressed, your sleep quality suffers, as your body pumps adrenaline and high-alert hormones through your system that make it difficult to unwind and relax

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• 73% of us regularly experience psychological symptoms caused by stress

Experts say that:

Stress is a silent killer. There’s plenty of research on the subject that shows that too much stress can have traumatizing health effects such as depression

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There are various signs and symptoms of stress.

The most common are:

• Frequent headaches, jaw clenching or pain • Frequent crying spells or suicidal thoughts• Tremors, trembling of lips, hands•  Unexplained or frequent “allergy” attacks•  Difficulty breathing, frequent sighing

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Overcoming stress can be done through stress management, self-help and medication.

• People who don't manage stress well can have headaches, stomach pain, sleeping problems, illness, and depression

• Stress management activities are:  journaling, meditating, exercising, talking to others, or engaging in a hobby.

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Self-help for treating stress can be a great help for one’s recovery.

For Self-help treatment:

• Exercise

• Division of labor

• Assertiveness

• Avoid Alcohol and Drugs

• Cut down caffeine consumption

• Give yourself a break from work

• Seek professional help

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• Doctors will not usually prescribe medications for coping with stress, unless the patient has an underlying illness, such as depression or some type of anxiety.

• Bear in mind that there is a risk that all the medication will do is mask the stress, rather than help you deal and cope with it.

Medication Reminders:

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Aside from methods to treat stress, there are other options to handle stress better.

• 4 A’s: Avoid, Alter, Adapt, Accept the stressor

• Live a healthy life

- exercising regularly, eating a nutritionally balanced diet and having some down time all contribute to feeling well

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