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Friday 30 January 2009

Stress and How to Treat it

Stress is a common factor that affects many people all over the world. Stress and anxiety go hand in hand in plaguing people. Having stress and being able to treat it can be done. There are steps to treating it and also preventing it from affecting your life too much.

Treating Stress

Stress comes in daily life in forms of work related pressure and home stress. Although many people believe that stress generates solely from work, home life can also add to it or be the larger factor to it. Stress and anxiety can trigger far reaching consequences which is why it is important to treat it.

One of the more effective ways of treating stress and managing it is to be realistic about it. It happens in life and when it does the best way to treat it is to either avoid it or resolve it. Avoiding stress and resolving it are two different matters entirely. You can avoid stress by being more meticulous with work and doing a better job which means you will not be reprimanded more or criticized as often. Avoiding stress in the home can be by assigning house work to other people in the home and keeping things in order. Keep work and home life separate if possible.

There are others ways to treat stress. Alternative medicine helps to relax a person through herbs, aromatherapy and massages. Regular sessions will benefit a person by helping him feel loose and more relaxed. So make sure you that once you seek a treatment, you stick with it.

Mike Selvon's portal has some more useful information on stress and treatments. Visit his web site and learn more on how to cope with your anxiety attack symptom.

By Mike Selvon

How Do You Cope With Stress In Our Modern World

The term stress is now part and parcel of our life. It is not possible for one to do without stress in our present world. Although stress is beneficial to man, its negative effects are also enormous. Hardly can minutes pass without one experiencing one form of stress or the other. Whenever we go about for our various daily chores, we encounter one form of stress or the other.

Do you know that stress can be both good and bad to man? Yes! Stress can be beneficial and harmful to man. Normally, we need some little amount of stress if we must live. On the other hand, when stress becomes too much for us, it becomes a disease.

When stress is beyond the coping capability of an individual, it turns from being beneficial to being harmful. Thus, enormous doses of stress is pathological while small doses of stress is very vital for maintenance of normal life processes.

Just as the saying that one man's poison is another man's meat; what could be stress to an individual could turn out not to be stress to another individual. To some individuals, going to the stadium to watch a football match might just be fun but for another person going to the stadium might just be stress. Some students will see reading as stress while to some, reading could be noting but fun.

Ironically, as man is embracing the modern world, with much more sophisticated gadgets to make life easier; the amount of stress we encounter in our daily life continues to increase. Ordinarily, one should expect that stress should be reducing with modernization. But the reverse is the case. I wonder why a serious issue like stress is still unrecognized as a killer in this our present generation. Stress worsens the various sicknesses we suffer in life.

One thing is certain - we cannot avoid stress in our various life endeavors. Since stress is an inevitable part of our life, we must learn to manage and cope with stress.

Get your Stress tips and info at Stress Management Blog and http://www.tellmeonline.net/2008/04/18/stress/

By Victor Ezeaku