One of my good friends,
his name was John, came to me one good day and said to me, he was
stressed today. He walked all through the day without resting and my
response to him confused him. I told him I had been thinking of how to
eat this night and next so I’m stressed. He said how come is that called
a stress and I sat him down and explained everything that concerns
stress to him and how it is been managed.
However,
the purpose I write this article is to help people to understand and to
enlighten them about being stressed. It is not only when you are tired
that you are stressed. Issues, problems, troubles and challenges of life
are and are also classified as one term which is called “stress.”
The
term stress, as defined by Mini-Advanced dictionary puts it this way,
‘stress is a physical, mental or emotional strain or tension.’ To make
it clear, let’s do the breakdown of what it means to be physically
stressed, mentally stressed or emotionally stressed.
• Physical stress is the visibility or natural forces in problems that human beings face in life.
•
Mental stress is the inability to think straight, not having the right
mentality of something and inhabiting chaos mind - instability or
imbalance.
• Emotional stress is the reaction to natural forces of threat or persuasion.
From medical perspective, “stress is your body’s way of responding to
any kind of demand and threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous
system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, and including
adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action.”
Oxford
Advanced Learning dictionary defines it as, “stress is the pressure
(the use of persuasion or threats) or worries (feel or cause to feel
concern or anxiety) caused by problems in somebody’s life.” With these
definitions, you should have understood the true meaning of stress. It
won’t end here and won’t be complete without telling the causes, types
and how to deal with this stress.
There is
nothing, be it troubles, problems and challenges of life that doesn’t
have its source or root. There’s always a cause for it and that will
lead us to the causes of stress. The causes can be external and as well
internal. You are confused? Don’t be because I’m going to give some
examples of it. External stress are the real danger man faces in their
relationship, work or school, financial problem, more life changes,
being too busy, children and family and so on while internal stress are
the true danger man faces through being a pessimism, saying negative
self-talk, rigid thinking, chronic worry and unrealistic goals and
expectations. It operates differently and in types or forms which its
classified as the properties of stress. They are;
• Acute
stress: It is the most common type or form of stress. It is a short term
stress and does not extend itself. Its symptoms are headache, emotional
distress, stomach ache and so on.
• Episodic acute stress: It
suffers on acute stress more frequently. Its symptoms are persistent
tension, migraines, and hypertension and so on.
• Chronic
stress: It wears away people’s life day after day and year after year.
It symptoms are ulcer, violence, stroke and so on.
Moreover,
the reason for this article is to know how to manage the stress. It is
not how well the stress is but how far you can respond to such stress
you are facing. It is possible for you to avoid the stress you are
facing if only you can;
• Get moving: put on some music and dance around.
• Social engagement: make calls or email an old time friend or better still, go visit a friend of yours.
• Avoid unnecessary stress: always learn to say no to stress.
• Alter situation: express your feelings instead of bottling them up.
• Accept the things you can’t change: learn to forgive.
• Adopt a healthy lifestyle: eat healthy diet and get enough sleep.
Conclusively, it is not how tired you are that only defines stress.
Stress can come in form of life challenges. But the problem is how far
you can respond to the challenges or stress you find yourself.
I will also recommend for you to go and visit a therapist if you don’t see any changes.
- Johnmiles.
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