Stress is what you experience when you are faced
with challenges that are slightly more than you
can handle. A little bit of stress in life is
normal and even healthy in the sense it provides
us the motivation to finish work on time, reach
to solutions, work hard. However, when stress
becomes too prolonged and if levels of stress
are high then it can affect your health in addition
to affecting your well being, performance and
relationships.
Under stress, your body reacts similar to when
are facing danger. When stress is more and regular
in your life, it begins to have bad effects. Stress
can give you headaches, back pain, sleep disorders
etc. Stress for a prolonged period can weaken
you immune system
and leaves your body not enough equipped to fight
diseases. Mood swings, tension, depression
are further manifestations of stress. Increased
level of stress can have negative psychological
effects that make it more and more difficult to
treat the real problems that are causing stress.
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Different people react to things
differently. What causes excitement to one can
cause stress to others. Management of stress originates
in the person itself.Because your reaction to
a situation is the key to stress management. Therefore,
you need to recognize your stress pattern. Identifying
what is causing stress can help you in stress
management but will not completely eliminate stress
from your life. Removing the cause of stress or
how your react, can help you in management of
stress. One can learn to cope with stress at anytime
in their lives. Though stress is unavoidable,
the good new is, you can always control how it
affects you.
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