How to Cope With Stress
Stress is a problem for everybody. Can you really think of any person in this world, who is living without stress? The rich or the poor. That rich man you may think is living without stress is really facing serious stress. I know you may be asking what will be stress to a rich man? Stress is in everybody's diction. The poor, the rich, newborn, and even a newly formed zygote that is yet to enter the world of stress.
I consider stress in our present world as a global epidemic. Immediately a child is born, he or she enters into the world with stress. Is is a fallacy for one to say that he or she can live with out stess. Stress is part and parcel of our live. We can not really hide away from stress; neither can we run away from stress. The only thing we can do about stess is to reduce the degree of stess we a exposed to.
What is Stress? Stress is the reactions of the body to forces of a deleterious nature, infections, and various abnormal states that tend to disturb its homeostasis. It is the body's response to change in the environment. Stress is the outcome of the tears and wears we are subjected to in the process of performing our daily routines or work.
According to Canadian doctor, Hans Selye "Since stress is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand, everybody is always under some degree of stress". Who is an an exception to this definintion of stress. Hans selye coined to word stress as it is currently used.
Since we cannot hide away from stress, the best cure for it is to reduce it by managing it properly.
How we can cope with stress?
1. Adaptation: One way we can cope with stess is through adaptation. Adaptation to stress involves modifiying our daily activities to aid in the reduction of stess. For example, I live in a city overcrowded. For me to reach to my school i have to some times spend not less that three hours on traffic jams. How do i cope with this daily stress of traffic jam. I have no option than to start getting up from bed as early as possible so as to avoid the usual traffic jam expereinced in my city.
Few years ago, a friend of mine, who was my neighbour have to pack out from our area to an area nearer to his office, just because of the traffic jam he usually experience. But guess what happen. It was like falling from a fry pan to fire. The stess he is currently exposed to is like doubled. Just a few distace from his house is a Churh and a factory that operates round the clock. He is now face with the stress of noise from this church and factory both day and night. So since we can't run away from stess, we have to try and adapt to it.
Now does it mean that he have to look for another house to be free from this current noise stess? No. The best thing he have to do is to try and adapt to this noise. Just like my current neigbour, who plays his cd to the highest volume has being disturbing me. I don't have to look for another house, rather I try to adapt to living with noise. How have I adapted to this noise pollution. I make sure that my doors and windows are always closed. This will not really eliminate the stress but will reduce it.
2 Excercise: This is a good way to manage stress. Excercie is very good for the mind and body. How does excercise help in the treatment of stress? excercise will help us to use up extra sugars and fats released into our blood when we are under stess. Even if you don't like excercise, take it as a medication for stess. It must'nt be a strenous excercise. Excercise which one can do ranges from walking, skiping, dancing running, playing foot ball, tennis etc. Just try and find excercise that you like and enjoy.
3 Rest and Sleep: The work of most indivituals don't allow them to have adequate and enough rest and sleep today. Rest and sleep shoulb be viewed as a medication for stess. Every individual should have a minimum of 8hours of sleep daily. When a doctor prescribe bed rest for you, try and take it serious. But I will advise that you should not wait for a doctor to prescribe bed rest for you be you consider it worthy of having one. Not having enough sleep is stress itself and will make it diffcult for and individual to cope with other stress.
Victor Ezeaku
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People, How do you cope with stress and depression?
How do u all cope with stress and depression. With me, I use music to cope with it.
Drugs and therapy.
Doesn't always help though. Still feel like life is a constant struggle and some days take all my strength just to get through.
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yea, i use music too.. especially when singing along to it.. great way to release.
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my head.
Hi.
It has been shown that depression in some people is caused by lack of vitamins and minerals. Read this:
http://depression.about.com/cs/diet/a/vitamin.htm
Hope this helps
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I like crazyarsedfly's idea of singing along with music! That does always make us feel better, doesn't it?
I find it helps to get out of your rut. If you just sit at home and feel sorry for yourself you'll never get out of it. Get outside, do new things, go new places, meet new people. There is a component of depression that is just loneliness.
There are a lot of techniques for relieving stress. The Internet is full of them. There are exercises and stretching, meditation and other 'mind control' techniques, etc. There are books that present 20 or 30 different things. You just need to try a few to see what's right for you.
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1 shot of Jack D and 30 on the punching bag works everytime!!!
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Stress isn't all that bad. The stress of not having water develops over a period of time with the result being that you drink as you need it. The stress of finding yourself in front of an oncoming car causes you to act. Surpressing the stress caused by work or relationships can work for awhile but the stress keeps coming back.
So…
to relate to your stress, you should identify it as best you can. Is it water that you need, jumping out from the path of a car, or that *ss at work that does as little as possible while the work stacks up on you, or is it the annoying habit of someone of the opposite sex?
After you idenitify it, make a list of all the things you could possibly do. You can include quiting your job or punching the coworker out (if it makes you feel better) but when you are finished with the list you will want to go back over it and cross that sort of thing out.
The last coping part is to set a time for that action. For example, Friday morning at 9:00 AM make an appointment with your boss. This has to be a DECISION that you will follow up on, but curiously as soon as the decision is made and the time is set THE STRESS GOES AWAY.
I don't know why this happens. You would think that actually doing the thing, like drinking the water would relieve the stress.
Good luck with your tunes though.
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Hypnotherapy is a wonderful way to relax, reduce stress and to get better quality sleep with no side effects.
You can visit a Hypnotherapist for a one to one session or get a self help CD (or download)
The benefits can be amazing.
Good luck.
More details on
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Sleep%20Disorders.htm
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Stress%20Management.htm
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Music is the best, unless the situation is really, really bad; in which case, seek help.
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