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Stress Awareness Day – Who would have thought the nation needs reminding of this date/day (Wednesday 4th November 2009) when 99% of the population lives their lives battling with the disorder every day? Is it any wonder why so many people are treated for stress with the amount of pressure put upon them in today's society? These pressures can include many things, but unfortunately most common are them that are unavoidable and nothing people can do about but worry over them. And what does worry bring, "stress." Is it good practice to bring National Stress Awareness Day to our attention? Do people with past stresses want to be reminded of the bad times, or what about the people still under stress and how they will cope with their disorder highlighted? As for the 1% you may bet they are looking after the 99%.
Wednesday 4th November 2009 is National Stress Awareness Day
Stress can be a menacing build up of many pressures and challenges. The vast majority of folks are now alert that the big concerns in life can be thrilling for the select few but too demanding for them not selected, resulting in stress – losing your job, keeping up with mortgage payments, redundancy, moving house or country, a breakdown in a relationship, divorce, or just struggling to put a crust on the table are some examples that can cause stress. Lots of people suffer from stress if they have a health issue their worried about. This year's National Stress Awareness Day campaign is 'Stressing the Positives.' Stress is a hostile reaction to what a person observes as too much pressure. Stress is an unhealthy condition of body or mind or a combination of both. Due to the complexity of defining stress, the details and numbers on the subject are thus vastly varied.
How each individual copes with their condition will vary in each person, and, thus depending on the cause, and how serious their stress has become. Stress is a normal physical reaction in situations that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger and feel under threat – whether it's true or imagined – the body's defenses pick up on your fear and goes to work. This sudden response is referred to as the "fight-or-flight" reaction, or the stress response. The stress response is the body's way of keeping you safe from harm. It works by helping you stay alert and energetic, in a mad sort of way stress could easily save your life. Nonetheless it can however have an adverse affect if the stress response is not protecting you. Stress can cause severe upsets like damaging your health, your mood, your productivity, your marriage, and your quality of life.
Recognizing Symptoms of Stress Depression & Unhappiness
A lot of people assume that you're mad if you've been diagnosed as suffering from stress. While some may think stress is a mental issue – caused by too much pressure, worries and anxieties of modern day living…making assumptions of this sort is not always correct. In fact just some of the above mentioned pointers are regular causes of stress. Stress is actually your body's natural and frequent improper reaction to these 'causes'. Some usual signs connected with stress listed below
Cognitive Symptoms
Emotional Symptoms
Physical Symptoms
Behavioral Symptoms
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Loss of appetite or an increase in food consumption
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Tiredness sleeping too much or not getting enough
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Avoiding people (isolation)
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Putting off familiar duties or neglecting responsibilities
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Drinking and smoking or doing drugs
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Reckless
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Nervous people you might find will take up a habit like nail biting and pacing
If you or someone close are showing signs of the above then have your doctor check you or them out. Mild stress is easier to treat and control than the severe type. Stress tends to become severe because medical attention is not sought after early. This is why it's important for days like Wednesday 4th November 2009 National Stress Awareness Day to help people who are oblivious to just what is involved with stress.
Managing stress is all about taking charge: being in control of your thoughts, your feelings, your environment, your life, and the way you deal with troubles. There are many support groups to help people with stress and depression. You are not on your own here. Stress can be a disturbing condition and bring you to an all time low, don't let this happen to you. Why not devise a stress management course for yourself that involves changing stressful situations you always find yourself in if possible and making time for rest and relaxation. It's the experts in this field that will have all the answers to your problems. Contact your GP and talk to him/her who will put you in touch with these people. Also consider joining a support group. Support groups usually consist of sufferers and past sufferers. You can learn a lot from them who have been there - done it and overcome it. Stress symptoms that can affect you often build up until you have no choice but take notice of them. This is not good, take note straight away and seek treatment
Are you worried about being worried?
An online search discovered that there are 1227 books on worry. 24 DVDs and 3,700,000 CDs! Going off this information tells us this year's National Stress Awareness Day is of much interest to many people (either because they are already under pressure, or feared of becoming pressurized)
People vary when it comes to worrying, some will worry more than others even if it is over the same thing.
I read that worry is a learned/conditioned behaviour, which makes complete sense if you think about it. It looks like this is one lesson to be unlearned if your worrier. Too many people spend too much time thinking about negative possibilities, dwelling upon them and developing exaggerated situations and options. People who speak in, ifs, buts, and maybes, and what ifs, are sure signs of a worrier. Some people need guidance and don't know when to seek medical help. Well if you find after reading this and think "what if the doctor finds?" Or "if" he says, or, what "if" the above content I have read on stress and worry is true…then do I the writer need to spell it out.
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