Stress Management
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Stress Management
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Martin and Osborne define stress as
1) challenging and potentially threatening events and situations;
2) our immediate reactions to those situations; and
3) our body’s long-term physical reaction to continuing, threatening events and situations. These stressful feelings and thoughts can arise from a number of situations ranging from anything that makes up feel upset, unheard, frustrated, angry, or even nervous. -
Stress and anxiety have similar symptoms whereas stress is short term but anxiety could be of long term. For instance: An Individual can be stressed because of different stressors like having financial constraints , overload of work , shifting to a new environment or going through a difficult or important phase of your life such as getting a divorce/ getting married/ having a breakup henceforth is apprehensive about the future.
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Stress happens when we experience pressure and due to not having a fight or flight response, stress seems unmanageable leading to having unhealthy coping mechanism like indulging oneself to Smoking or drinking alcohol in trying to find relief which can be unhealthy for our well being.
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Symptoms; shortness of breath, insomnia/ too much sleep, easily distracted, headaches, extreme procrastination, changes in appetite.
How therapy would help
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Therapy would help individuals identify stressors, deal with them, and grow into people they want to be. By identifying stressors, a person would be better equipped to handle them if they were to arise.
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Therapy would help the individuals in managing the stress by different healthy as effective coping mechanisms as well as making them identify the pattern and trigger points that makes the individuals feel overwhelmed/ feeling of having lack of control on their daily life. A therapist’s role is to help and guide their client to that goal. Through therapy a client is taught how to be more resilient and fight the negative.