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Andrew John's Articles in Stress Management

  • Stress - Basic Information
    Due to the fact that stress can be experienced in different ways by different people it is hard to set a its simple definition. In short, stress is a negative condition which affects both our body and mind in a specific way. Still, we must remember that stress may have various causes and people have different resistance to it, so creating an exact definition is almost impossible.
  • The Stressed Out Teenager
    Stress is an inevitable part of every teenager's life. During that time, people meet with their first real problems - high school and college grades, their first jobs, first important exams, first long-term friendships and having sex for the first time in their lives. When your children become teenagers, the time of being the "almighty parents" is finally over. Instead of solving problems for their children, you have to advise them and teach your children how to cope with the problems alone.
  • Managing Stress: Long-Term Stress Problems
    Dealing with stress for longer than a few weeks without even trying to minimize its impact on you is a short way to suffer from long-term stress. Unless you react fast, you're in a real danger of serious health problems.
  • How To Make Others Relax
    A natural reaction when you see someone suffering from a lot of stress is of course to help him solve the problem and care for him until bad times are gone for good. The trouble is that all too often we don't really help - quite the contrary.
  • The Way Your Body Suffers From Stress
    Stress influences functions of our bodies in numerous ways. Most of the effects are negative as stress is known to cause serious physical and psychological problems, so we should do our best to deal with it as soon as possible.
  • Stress And Your Mind
    Stress is dangerous also because it affects minds to, not only the bodies. We find ourselves frustrated and annoyed when we realize that we no longer are able to focus on anything for long, that our concentration is easily broken and our memory suffers from stress and stops remembering anything.
  • Parental Stress: How To Deal With It
    Being a parent is a demanding, extremely difficult and at the same time unpaid job. Doing your best to make your children happy for years and years with little chance to rest can be extremely wearisome and frustrating for many parents.
  • Getting Rid Of Parental Stress
    When the child is born, the parents are happy - or to tell the truth, even more than happy. However, the child also brings a lot of additional worries for parents. Raising a child is a lot of fun, that's true, but it also brings a lot of responsibility, often more than the parents got used to handle. At that time stress is born - and it can last for years or even our entire life unless we decide to do something about it.
  • Exercise Can Decrease Stress Levels
    Life is stressful, that's the fact, but many people must also encounter stress tha is related to their look or health. For some of us a few additional pounds or first white hairs are much more frustrating that problems at work or with children. There are even cases when we sink deep into depression caused by unattractive look or health problems related to age. Still, there is an easy and effective way to end this torment - we must start doing exercises.
  • Stress - How To Get Rid Of It
    When you want to deal with your stress you should first learn a few rules which can help you. Otherwise you won't be able to relax and think clearly - and you fail to solve your everyday problems.
  • Talking About Your Stress
    Are you stressed? Do you feel bad, angry or annoyed about anything? Do you want to fix everything, but you don't know how to do it? If so, here's a solution for you: you have to communicate with others and try to find a solution to your problems together.
  • Things That Cause Your Stress
    Before you start coping with your stress, it is a good idea to find out what actually causes it. This will let you deal with causes rather than effects and make stress vanish almost instantly. However, the problem is that what we usually perceive as the true reason of your stress is only a trigger while the real reason of your present condition are buried much deeper than you suspect. Unless you want to spend fortune on psychotherapists, sit back, relax and start looking for the possible reasons. The best way to do it is making a list of all potential causes, then eliminate them one by one.
  • Stress: Prevent Rather Than Cure
    Stress is very dangerous to people's health. Though it is only rarely a direct cause of death, its side effects (such as heart attacks) can cause death. While stress is known to be a top one problem for modern societies, it is extremely difficult to get rid of, as the specific reasons of stress are different depending on an individual. For now, this dangerous condition has no simple cure.
  • The Relation Between Food And Stress
    If you are to face a stressful situation - an important meeting, a heart-to-heart talk with someone you don't like, but you have to meet - you may feel like you need something special to calm your nerves. Most people in such situation grab a piece of chocolate or a cookie. Don't worry if you are among them, using food to lower one's stress level is a common and effective method of coping with stress. Provided of course that you won't overdo it.
  • Stress As A Result Of Financial Problems
    We are always concerned about our money. When we have it, we worry about things we spend it on. When we don't, we think days and nights about where we can find more $$$. This may have devastating effects on your entire life unless you prepare a well-thought budget and then stick to it.
  • Marriage and Stress
    Stress in a marriage is much more common thing than we could ever imagine. It often strikes after a few years since the wedding and can destroy your trust and love to your spouse. Still, there are many ways to lower the tension between spouses as long as both of them want to cooperate and save their feelings to each other. The most important thing is working together when we want to get rid of stress in our marriage and thus rebuild our relationships and trust to each other.
  • Stress - What It Means To You
    Before you start dealing with the stress, you should realize that it is always present in our lives. The way we react to stress is a very personal thing, still there are three main types of behavior related to stress. Some of us are able to keep stress away from them and they can work efficiently even under high pressure. Others tend to close themselves, so not only stress but also other influences or even emotions can't get to them. There are also people who can't fight with the stress, even when they are exposed to relatively small problems they start to worry a lot and let the stress control their lives. Still, for each type there are proper ways to get rid of the stress, all you need is to recognize your personality.
  • Stress, Blood Pressure and Heart Attacks
    Stress is known to activate "fight-or-run" mechanisms in your body, including increased heartbeat rate and blood pressure to prepare our bodies to incoming danger. This does nothing wrong if happens once a month, but if you suffer from long-time stress, blood pressure level will be increased - permanently. And such situation is both unnatural and dangerous for even the youngest.
  • What Causes Stress?
    For all the wonders brought by the twenty-first century, there is a price to be paid: the stress. While sometimes beneficial, long-term stress is potentially extremely harmful for an individual. What is even worse, its real causes aren't often clear and easy to find. Let's take a look at the most important stress causes.
  • Making Life Less Stressful - Stress Reduction At Home
    Low immune system's efficiency, depressions and nervous breakdowns are but three examples of negative effects of long-time stress. Trying to ignore the problem will not help you or your loved ones - it will only get you to the hospital faster. Stress is inevitable and all we can do is to minimize its influence on our lives.
  • Soothe Your Stress Naturally
    Many of us suffer from "typical" everyday problems. An annoying workmate, problems with money, traffic jams or unhappy love - they all cause stress to grab you by the throat in no time. You simply have to learn how to cope with such situations in order to remain balanced, happy and capable of living your life to the fullest.

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