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MY
HEALTH
Coping
With Stress
Posted:
Sep 2009
What
is the strategy of coping with
stress? What are methods of
coping with stress?
Coping
with stress
is the one of the biggest health
concerns. Stress effects
can be different from one person
to another. Still, no matter how
different the stress effects on
an individual are, they effect
your health.
The
first thing that person affected
by the stress should do is to understanding and
admitting that is under a
stress. Denial of current
situation is quite common for
most of the people. But the
denial of the stress condition
will not make our life easier.
On contrary, denying and
resistance to face the reality
will cause the individual to
accumulate more stress related
problems. Accumulated stress is
like a snowball, you leave it
roll down the slope and it will
get bigger and bigger. Finally,
when it becomes too big it may
be too late, or at least too
difficult to solve
the situation.
After
admitting the reality of
being under a stress, it is
necessary to develop the
strategy of coping with stress.
The strategy is needed, since
the stress cannot be solved with
the single action. Stress is
usually appearing as a result of
cumulative effect of chain events through the
longer period of time. Since the
stress is mostly appearing as a
result of complex events, it is
not reasonable to consider that
stress will disappear simply by
our wish. Coping with stress and
dealing of stress effects
requires structured and
persistent approach.
Strategy
of coping with stress should be
a simple medical approach:
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Identify
Causes: Diagnostics is
the first step of coping
with stress. It is necessary
to understand route causes
of our stress situation. You
need to identify what is
causing stress. Is that
pressure of the job? Could
that be time-compressed
activities? Are you deep in
debts, while every financial
move you make is sinking you even deeper into debts? Is the
relationship the cause of
your stress?
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Remedy
Situation: After
understanding the causes of
stress you can start coping
with stress and choose the
right stress therapy. In
order to fight with the
stress effects you can go in
two opposite
directions.
First
direction is to try to
eliminate stress causes from
your vicinity. If the job is the
cause of your stress then you
can try to find a less stressful
job. Maybe the money is not
giving
you enough personal satisfaction
to motivate you, or you are
simply tired of the job and you
need something else? Is your old
car making you a lot of trouble
by being broke too often and
making you being under a stress?
Maybe you should change your
car, despite the fact that it
will make you spend some money.
Still, if you remove that stress
from your life, your money is
well invested.
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Second direction is
facing with stress itself.
Sometimes, way
of coping
with stress can be confronting
the stress situation, instead
avoiding it. Simply, if you have
a good motivation you can
strengthen yourself and confront
the stress. If you have such
situation that you consider
to
be one that you need to face
with, then
you need to find the good
motivation. If your job is very
demanding and stressful, if your
nice salary can give you
compensation, then your
motivation can ease your stress,
since you have something to
fight for. If you do not find
the motivation, then everything
is more difficult.
Also,
if you decide to cope with
stress, no matter how strong you
are, you need to Relax
from the stress effects. You
need some activity that you
enjoy in. You need some passionate
activity
that will occupy all of your
senses. If you are occupied by
something that you like and
enjoy in, than you will forget
about all things that are making
you to feel stressed.
Follow
up. Finally, you need to
assess your efforts of coping
with stress. You need to
identify was your identification
of stress cause right or wrong. What if you misjudged the real
cause of stress? What if you
have a good understanding of
stress cause, but you failed to
choose the right approach to the
situation. Therefore, in order
to cope with stress to the full
extent you need to do a follow
up of your stress therapy
and to evaluate the results. If
your stress therapy is wrong,
try to choose another stress
therapy. If you stress therapy
is working
well,
than try to make it even better.
This
simple three steps strategy of
coping with stress and stress
effects will give you results in
proportion to your diagnostics
and persistence in remedy. If
you choose and persist in right
stress therapy, you will be in
position to bring the balance
back in your life.
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