Deal with your Stress- By Aman Dadda

As technology is progressing, so are people becoming stressed, I am very surprised to see that nowadays everyone is leading a stressful life, even today’s children who are studying in school or college, their life is also going through serious stress.

The word stress may sound common in hearing, but it has a huge contribution in making the most of people’s life hell.

And that’s why I wrote this article for you, this is a very serious topic, that’s why I researched it very seriously and based on my experience and study, I will tell you through this article what is stress in actual, and how can we get out of this.

What is Stress?

Stress is a kind of mental stage when we react to any situation with a negative mindset. Or we can also say that when we feel any kind of pressure, the feeling that comes is called stress.

Types of Stress

1. Positive Stress
2.  Negative Stress

Level of Stress

1. When a Situation or Problem Comes to us
2.  how we Think about it
3.  Response to the Problem

What is Stress Management?

Dealing with your feelings under pressure is known as stress management. or To handle any negative situation without taking stress is called stress management.

It is impossible that there should be no stress in a person’s life, but stress can be minimized, situation does not matter, it only matters how you think about that situation and whether your response to it is positive or negative.

Only those people who learn to manage their stress are successful in getting themselves out of the stressful world. And to learn this stress management, we need to know why stress comes into our life.

Why Stress comes to us?

There are four main reasons why stress comes into people’s life:-

1. Bad Time Management
2.  Compression yourself to others
3.  Expenses More Than Income
4.  More Expectation

Sign of Stress

From the initial stage of stress, three types of signs start appearing in a person:-

• Emotional Sign of StressFeeling guilty
•  Feeling Helpless
•  Feeling Hopeless
•  fears or worries
•  Physical Sign of StressSleep Problem
•  no hunger or too much hunger
•  High Blood Pressure
•  head pain
•  chest pain
•  Mental signs of StressAvoiding family and friends
•  Frustrated
•  Over Thinking
•  Losing interest in daily activities

Causes of Stress

Due to some reasons stress comes in our life, we have already talked about it in the above paragraph where we have known the main 4 reasons due to stress comes. But apart from them, stress arises due to some other reasons, which is also important to know.

1. Physical Illness
2.  Work Pressure
3.  Long Distance Relationship
4.  Lack of Support
5.  Working Too hard
6.  Death in Family / Relative or friends
7.  Owning big Responsibility
8.  Big Changes in Life
9.  Experience hate or abuse
10.  Problems with neighbor

Stress Vs Anxiety

Stress	Anxiety
Positive and Negative Both	Only Negative
Reaction	Stage
Hindi Meaning – Tanaav	Hindi Meaning – Chinta
Not a Critical Term	Critical Term
Clear Reason	No Reason or blurred reason
Short Term	Long term
Real	Imaginary

Stress Vs Depression

Stress	Depression
Positive & Negative	Only Negative
Anger	Fear
Real	Imaginary
irritation	Loneliness
wish to ruin everything	thoughts of committing suicide

How Does Stress Affect you?

Stress can affect your life in four ways:-

1. Physically:- Permanent stress can cause many physical problems in your life. which can have a bad effect on your body, Some common problems that are found in people living under high stress:-

• Hair fall
•  Headache
•  wrinkle on forehead
•  darkness under eyes
•  high blood pressure
•  chest pain & Panic Attack
•  Weakness
•  Early ejaculation
•  Upset Stomach

2. Mentally:- As we know that stress is there only at the mental level, so obviously we must have many problems mentally. Let us see how stress affects us mentally:-

• Risk of depression
•  irritability
•  frustration
•  anger
•  Loss of interest & pleasure
•  Drug or alcohol misuse
•  Tobacco use

3. Emotionally:-When you are emotionally hurt by any situation or thing, then stress arises in your mind and you feel emotionally broken when you go to that stress, Emotionally also we get to see many types of troubles:-

• lake of confidence
•  thoughts of committing suicide (In the Last Stage)
•  feeling cheated
•  negative thinking
•  desire to do wrong
•  wish to ruin everything

4. Financially:- When your body will not be right, your mental health will be affected and you have become emotionally weak, then you will lose your money slowly without wanting it and it will also have a big impact on your income.

Most people start gambling due to stress, they start drinking alcohol, they start smoking, and they start making impersonal relationships. And in all this, your money is wasted.

Many times it has also been seen that due to stress, people do not do the work properly, due to which they are fired.

Some Strategies for stress relief

• Drink Some Water
•  Take A Short Break
•  Try Some Tune
•  Eat dark chocolate
•  Call Special One
•  Enjoy nature
•  Get Social
•  Eat Some Healthy Food
•  Try to Meditate
•  Take Proper Sleep
•  Play Some Outdoor games
•  Try To be Involved in comedy

Stress Management Skills & Technique

Skills:-

1. Follow Good Time management System
2.  Manage Your Money Effectively
3.  Acquire good habits
4.  Start Thinking in a Positive way
5.  Regular Exercise
6.  Don’t overthink
7.  Learn To ignore

Technique:-

1. Box Breathing
2.  Relax Your Muscles
3.  Right goal setting
4.  Seek Help
5.  Take Rest
6.  Talk About Your Problems & issues
7.  Think of things in a positive way
8.  Don’t take people’s words to heart

Stress Management Activity

There are many activities that you should do because these activities help you with stress as well as physical health, as well as your lifestyle will also be better by doing them.

1. You can join the gym, run 2-4 kilometers in the morning or every day, swim, play cricket, football, volleyball, badminton, etc.

2. If you like to cook, you can cook your food.

3. You can keep a pet with whom you will enjoy spending time, it will also help you get rid of loneliness.

4. Get involved in some charity work. Help those who can’t help you back.

5. For some time you can take a break from work and go to a new place where you get a chance to feel nature.

6. You can also participate in social activities, which will benefit you from stress as well as networking.

When to See a Doctor

Being stressed is a very common thing in human life, it can be reduced with normal activities and exercise, but sometimes the stress in people’s life increases so much that they start going towards depression and it can prove fatal.

If you can control your stress then it is fine but if you feel that it is out of your control then you should consult a doctor immediately.

The more you control it in the early phase, the more simple and easy it will be.

Books on Stress Management

There are many books written by different authors around the world on Stress management & Anxiety that you can read.

You will find thousands of books and eBooks related to Stress management & Anxiety in the online and offline market. Among them, there are some books for you which I have written below according to me you should read them.

1. Buddha’s Brain
2.  The Stress-Proof Brain
3.  The Upside of Stress
4.  Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
5.  Stress-Proof

FAQ | Stress Management

Final Thoughts on Stress Management

If you give it a positive meaning, you will have positive behavior. if you give it a negative meaning, you will have negative behavior.

Be happy and make others happy, get out of the rat race. Spend Time with Friends & Family. stay away from smoking