6 Ways To Free Your Mind From Stress
Life will be boring if you don’t have the opportunity to handle stressful situations. I am not saying that you should be stressed out all the time. What I’m getting at is that you should know your limit and push yourself to overcome a stressful position. Why? This will show how strong you are as a person and how your mind will work to find ways in circumventing a problem even if it poses certain stressful issues.… Read the rest...
Building A Support System To Help Cope With Stress
Stress can be often difficult to deal with alone. You may feel overwhelmed, angry, and even isolated when you’re dealing with high levels of stress. If you can relate to the description above and you need someone to talk to, read what Betterhelp has to say, or you can take a look at the tips below to help you build a solid support system to help you cope with stress.
- Don’t Rely on One Person
We all have that one friend that we tell absolutely everything to. We share our secrets, our schedules, and sometimes our nonsense opinions with them. While this may usually be a good thing, this can be potentially harmful during a stressful period. Your friend will not always be able to be there for you when you need it most, which can create even more stress for you if you need someone to talk to in that moment. Instead, seek out a great number of people who you love and who you can confide in. This way when you need to talk about something that is bothering you, you will always have someone to speak with, even if it isn’t always your go-to person.… Read the rest...
“Good” Stress Is A Good Thing!
There is such a thing as good stress!
“I have finals this weekend, and at the same time, 2 of my old clients are waiting for their gowns to be finished. One of the evening dresses, the “serpentine” one in black needs more Swarovski crystals, and that can’t be done by a machine. I have to put it on myself. It’s not that tedious, but I also have another gown that needs tending. While the ball gown is already finished, the client wanted to loosen the petticoat inside for about 2 inches. In 2 months’ time, she got wider. These things happen, and the only way to solve it is just to do it!” – This was me a month ago when stress enveloped my being.… Read the rest...
Academic Pressure: How To Effectively Cope With School Stress
Many studies have been made to show and prove that millennials – young people ages 18-29 – are the most stressed generation. However, it is obvious that the pressure begins long before they are already at the legal age – specifically during the teenage years. This raises a concern not only among the parents of the teenagers but among the society as well.This is mainly because pressure and stress are linked with the development of mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and anger issues. These mental disorders might result to the danger of committing suicide.… Read the rest...
When You Should Seek Help for Your Stress
Stress is a normal part of life. However, some people are equipped with the right coping mechanisms that are needed to deal with stress and others have difficulty handling their stress to the point where it affects their mental health. If you are the latter and you find yourself googling things such as “therapist near me”, you can read an article by Betterhelp, or also use this article to find out when you should be seeking help for your stress.
You Should Seek Help When…
1. You find it difficult to handle Your emotions
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmingly sad, angry, empty, or any other type of negative emotion as a result of your high levels of stress, you need to seek help. These emotions could simply be just emotions or they could be signs of a developing mental illness. However, you shouldn’t ignore it either way. Seek out a mental health professional who can help you manage your stress as well as your emotions.
2. You’re eating too much or too little
A major change in appetite is almost always a sign of an emotional problem. What’s worse is that you may end up developing an eating disorder and an unhealthy relationship with food as a result of this appetite change. Prevent this by going to a therapist and, should you end up seeing the signs of an eating disorder, someone who can help you with that … Read the rest...
Stress And Depression
People who deal with stress on a daily basis experience an abundance of negative side effects, including depression. If you’re one of these people and you’ve been spending time in a depression chat room or researching online for ways to ease your stress to no avail, take a look at the article below to help you understand the link between stress and depression and what you can do to help yourself, instead of just online groups for depression chats; which you can read more about here: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/depression/can-a-depression-chat-room-be-helpful/.… Read the rest...
Finding Support For Stress
.While it may be easy to find a therapist who can help you cope with your depression or figure out the reasons behind your bad habits, it can be difficult to find a therapist that is solely known for helping people work through their stress. Whether it’s a strangers chat or a qualified therapist, here are some ways that you can find support for stress; even if you’re looking for online therapy free of charge according to BetterHelp and others.
- Using Online Chat Rooms
There is good news and bad news for this section. The good news is that there are hundreds of different chat rooms online that help with mental illnesses and other emotional issues. The bad news is that there are very few, if any, chat rooms that are specifically tailored to meet the needs of those who need help dealing with and managing their stress. However, there are a few places that you can go to. The first that I highly recommend is 7 Cups of Tea. This website trains each of their volunteers to handle each stranger chat with professionalism and to provide you with valuable resources to help you with your problems.… Read the rest...
Different Types Of Stress
Stress is stress, right? While that may be true to an extent, there are actually different categories of stress which vary depending on what you are currently dealing with in your life. Before you try to search for different types of counseling (shared in this post) based on your stress, take a look at the three categories of stress and their definitions below.
- Acute Stress
Acute stress is the type of stress that you experience when you are dealing with a situation that scares and exciting or when you are doing a great many things in a short time period. For example, acute stress is the type of stress that you may be dealing with when you are talking to a crowd for the first time or when you have to put together a presentation that will be due the next day.… Read the rest...
How Stress Can Cause Anxiety Disorders
Stress and Anxiety, although they seem to be one entity, are two entirely different things. These things, however, do play upon each other and if left unchecked, can cause problems such as General Anxiety Disorder and other serious mental illnesses. If you’re currently dealing with high levels of anxiety because of the stress in your life to the point where you need anxiety attack help or counseling and you want to know more about why you’re dealing with what you’re dealing with, take a look at this post: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/anxiety/be-calm-and-present-how-to-help-someone-with-anxiety-attack/ or read on to the article below to find out the link between your stress and your anxiety.… Read the rest...
Ways That Too Much Stress Can Affect You
While occasional bouts of stress typically present no problems, dealing with stress regularly can affect both your mental and physical health and present problems such as feeling empty or experiencing headaches. Is it a fleeting feeling or something more? Read this article: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/i-feel-empty-when-a-lack-of-meaning-is-something-more-serious/. If you want to learn about the different ways that stress can affect you, take a look at the article below.
The Mental Side Effects of Chronic Stress and Episodic Acute Stress
The effects that too much stress can have on your mind are numerous. From anxiety to depression, here are some of the side effects that you may experience when you are suffering from chronic stress or episodic acute stress.
- Anxiety- Sufferers of long-term stress often deal with anxiety as a result of the fear that they experience during stressful situations. Anxiety comes with its own set of side effects which include excessive sweating, fatigue, nervous energy, intense feelings of dread, heart palpitations, and shaking.
- Depression- On the other end of the spectrum, people dealing with chronic stress may also develop depression. Much like anxiety, depression comes with its own side effects which include fatigue, a lack of interest in things that you used to enjoy, intense sorrow, an increase or decrease in appetite, an increase or decrease in sleeping, irritability, inability to concentrate, slower movements, physical pain, and suicidal ideation.
- Overwhelm- While being overwhelmed pales in comparison to the two side effects listed above, being