Introduction
Stress is a feeling emotional or physical tension . Emotional stress usually occurs when people consider situations difficult or unable to manage. different people consider different situation as stressful.
Physical stress refers to a physical reactions of the body to various triggers. the pain experimental after surgery is an example of physical stress physical stress often leads to emotional stress and emotional stress of ten occurs as physical discomfort (eg: stomatch cramps)
These are three stages as person goes through while suffering from stress
Alarm stage
Resistance stage
Exhaustion stage
Alarm Stage
This stage experiences an over acting of the sympathetic nervous system where in adernaline and cortisol increase and blood flows away from the brain to the muscles
As a result, dendrites shrink back in the brain to moderate the flow of information, slowing or closing down the non essential body function. The whole body starts preparing itself to fight against the reason of stress.
Example:
look at a student face just before he is going to give an exam.
Resistance Stage
In this stage the body keeps making continuous effort to cope with stress and therefore feels run down and exhausted. The person starts feeling irritated over react to minor situations and get mentally and physically weak. Psychological Physical and behavior changes are also clearly visible
Example:
When a child is sitting in the examination hall and writing his exam, he is bothered about completing it in time. He is making full effort to cope with the situation and his whole body engaged in fighting against the mind
Exhaustion Stage
If a student is preparing for his exam and despite of every possible effort,He is not able to relate to his studies. He is bound to get stressed.
The stress could reach a height where he/she may feel exhausted and helpless to the extent of committing suicide.
There are two phases:
1. Initial phase
2. Burnout
1. Initial Phase
The stress persist and due to lack of appropriate measure the person is not able to concentrate and work efficiently.
2 . Burn Out
The person is completely exhausted and drained of all energy reserves. There is a complete physical psychological and emotional breakdown. This requires " immediate attention".
There are Certain Medication
Students, teens, professionals men, women, kids, elderly persons, everybody has been grasped by the pangs of one or the other types of stress at least once in their lifetime.
Students, kids and teens face situational stress at school, college and at other social situation. As their age is highly sensitive and emotional which directly or indirectly lead to stress.Professional and business men are amongst the highest stressed lot.
Types of Stress
1. Managing parented stress
2. Managing Emotional stress
3. Managing situational stress
Formulate Stress Avoidance Plans
A key step of stress management is to find ways to avoid stress. After all prevention is better than cure so if you can find some way to ensure that the stress does not come up in the first place, there would be no way, you will have to fight it away.
If you stress is money related, your best option is to learn money management. If you have stress because of beer presence, look for appropriate ways to handle it. Avoid all the stress that you can.
Accept the Facts of Life
There are something which are born with. As a student or as top business man with loads of money and fame, something just cannot be fixed. These are the facts of life and the more you try to change them or the more you brood over them, the more you will fall in elutches of stress.
Relax and Take Some Time for yourself:
A great way to manage stress is to devote sometime for yourself. This is the time away from studies away from friends and away from family. This is your time. Introspect and develop optimum is yourself. Try to relax. Mediation is very helpful for this purpose.
Take Care of your Health
It is necessary that you maintain healthy lifestyle. Stay away from Narcotics. Restrict your alcohol intake and do not smoke. Exercise regularly join some sports team at school and never miss the gym. The healthier your-body remains the easier it will be for you to beat stress.
Conclusion
It is vital that stress management techniques are implemented into our daily lives. As mentioned earlier, some stress is good, but we need to find that optimal level of stress, which will motivate but not overwhelm us. Coping with stress is an individualized task and one method over another may not be superior, so find what works for you and master it. A person that is stressed takes so much away from his or her health and performance levels. Reducing stress could be as simple has adding exercise to you day or making new friends. To make the most of your life, limit your stress and of course for that stress that you cannot diminish, learn to manage.
