Aug 20 2008
Is Stress Part of Your Life?
Stress may affect you on a physical, mental or emotional level. The area that is your weakest link will be where you will notice the overload effects first, depending on your personal disposition.
When unforeseen events or overload situations arise that put a strain on your ability to cope, you can start feeling out of control. It is this feeling of not being in charge of a particular situation that creates what we perceive as stress.
It now becomes very important to know how to deal with this stress so that you can handle the situation constructively and feel back in control. If you end up feeling that you were not able to successfully deal with the situation, you will begin to become nervous about the same or similar situation arising again in the future.
In this respect, it does not matter what the situation was – it may have been something simple as a casual remark that hurt you, but as long as it made you feel physically or emotionally out of control, a vicious circle will have been set up.
Once you start to get afraid of the same situation occurring again, you tense up, you think about what happened and go over it again and again in your mind. The stress has now extended into the non-stress areas of your lifer, simple because you can’t stop thinking about it, even though the situation has passed.
By way of self-protection, you now begin to fear or avoid similar situation. And when you find yourself in a similar place, when you experience similar body sensations or when similar events occur you will feel stressed. This can sometimes happen, even if you have not thought about the original stressful event for a long time. The moment your subconscious mind perceives an upcoming event as potentially threatening, it
switches you in stress-mode.
There are many symptoms of stress:
-mood swings
- being overly aggressive, angry or weepy
- feeling anxious or suffering from a feeling of panic.
- losing your sense of humour
- feeling down or depressed
- withdrawing from social life
- blaming yourself
- assuming others will let you down
- blaming life in general
- drinking excessively
- smoking excessively
- change of personality
and many more.
Does anything sound familiar?
