Immunize Yourself Against Anxiety and Excessive Stress
What is Stress?
Stress
is the psychological, physiological, and behavioral response by an individual
when they perceive a lack of equilibration between the expectation placed upon
them and their ability to meet those expectations and challenges, which over a
period of time, leads to ill health.
Stress
and Stressors
• Stress:
Anindividual's response to a situation that are threatening or challenging.
• Stressor:
A stimulus that causes stress.
Types
of Stress
Stress
is of two types
• Eustress:
It is a good stress like getting into college, get in engaged, winning the
lottery etc.
• Distress:
stress from bad sources like difficult work environment, threat of personal injury,
disease, clashes with boss etc.
Stages
of Stress
There
are three stages of Stress
- Alarm Stage
- Resistance
Stage
- Exhaustion
Stage
Alarm
Stage
When
an individualbegins to experience a stressful situation or perceiving something
to be stressful then psychological and physical changes appear in your body.
This experience or perception disturb your body's normal functioning and
balance and it immediately induces your body to respond to these stresses as efficiently
as possible.
•
Examples:-
Cardiac: increased
heart rate,
Respiratory:
increased respiration
Resistance
Stage
• At this stage your body tries to cope up or adapt to
the stressors by initiating a process of repairing the damage caused by the
stressor automatically. Your friends, family or co-workers may notice these changes
in you before you do.So, it is important to examine their feedback to make sure
you do not reached overburden. Examples
• Behavior indicators include: lack of enthusiasm for
family, school, work or life in general, withdrawal, changes in eating habits,
Insomnia, hypersomnia, anger, fatigue etc.
• Cognitive indicators include: poor problem solving,
confusion, nightmares, hypervigilance etc.
• Emotional
indicators include: tear fullness, fear, anxiety, panic agitation, depression,
etc.
Exhaustion
stage
• This is the very crucial stage in which the stressors
or effected individual is not being managed effectively and the body and mind
are not able to repair and heal the damage itself.
Examples-
• digestive disorders,
• withdrawal,
• headaches,
• tension, Insomnia, loss of temper etc.
Stress
Management
Stress
management is "set of techniques and programs intended to help people deal
more effectively with stress in their lives by analyzing the specific stressors
and taking positive actions to minimize their effects".
There are 4 A’s of Stress Management
1.
Avoid - learn to say no
2.
Alter - make changes that impact your stress level for the better.
3.
Accept – To accept things as they are and learn from past mistakes and accept
them as “teachable moments.”
4.
Adapt – Readdressed the requirementof an individual to getrightness in order to
work or perform with less frustration.
Coping
with emotions
• Try Breathing relaxation techniques.
• Try meditating or praying
• Try throwing the negative thoughts away
• Journaling
• Try progressive muscle relaxation or exercising
• Read the story of someone who admires you
• Watch funny programs
• Play with animals/pets
• Reorganize your
room
• Make a to do list- of places you want to travel
Conclusion
It
is really very essential to keep ourselves free form stress as well as to learn
how to keep ourselves cool and calm. Need to follow a healthy life style and
good food habits to live a balanced life and happy life. It is correctly said
that acontented person can spread happiness around and a healthy mind and soul
lives in a healthy body.
Dr. Rajnee Gaur
Sr. Assistant professor
JIE, JIMS, JEMTEC
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