What is stress?
Stress can be identified as a situation that causes changes and tends to create a physical, emotional, social, or psychological strain, or all of them at a time. Simply it can be a state of body or mind which needs attention or any responsive action.
Possible causes of stress:
There are uncountable reasons for stress, which mostly depend on the individual. However, most significant possible cause is failure to tackle any situation and unable to get out of that state. It is generally attained from the workplace, day-to-day inconveniences, financial problems, relationships, or habits.
Identification
It is not easy to understand the situation of self. Being in that condition for a long time can harm the health status of the body. A Small failure can create trouble or an anxiety-like situation for short time On keen observation, one can find a few things listed below
Symptoms
- Emotional signs such as short-tempered, irritating mood, frustration, and early anger mood swings.
- Physical signs include raised blood pressure, interference with weight, frequent cold or allergy or infection, loss of libido, etc
- Social signs include not enjoying anything, shifting to addiction like drugs or alcohol, tending to spend time solitarily
- Psychological signs include loss of stability and concentration, unreasonable worrying, and negative predictability of every task
Types
Types mostly depend on what basis they are judged on. All stress is not harmful or doesn’t matter in any aspect.
Acute or short-time stress
It can be positive or more disturbing like just before the result of the exam. Hyperexcitement also causes the same disturbance.
Chronic or longer-duration stress
It is a more troubling and never-ending type like that of unemployment, wrong occupation selection, childhood fear or trauma, lonely life, unresolved financial burden, or exam.
Occasional stress
It is a type of stress which is acute but oscillates in life whenever there is a presence of a stem of that event or object.
Eustress is a type of positive stress generally experienced on thrills like in adventure sports, just before finishing a task, or excited to be declared as a winner or anything which causes a surge of adrenaline.
Impact of stress
Stress disturbs individuals in every aspect like at the workplace, while conversations with others lack performance. Prolonged can cause lifestyle disorders like change in nature forever, hypertension, insomnia, anxiety, phobia, peptic ulcers, etc.
Management of stress
Stress is not a fixed medical entity or doesn’t possess any specific treatment.
- Initial and the most important method to manage it is to rule out the exact cause. And to maintain self-stability in any situation.
- Practicing Yoga forms like Pranayama, Trataka, and another yogic exercise can heal up the individual’s internal power and increase the tolerance threshold.
- Use of Medhya or Rasayana Drugs like Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Amalaki, Chyavanaprash, Maharishi Amrit Kalash.
(Maharishi Amrit Kalash is full of herbal contents which increase longevity, intelligence, and memory power. It also enhances overall well-being and contains antioxidants, Vitamin C and E
- Ayurveda procedures like Shirodhara and Nasya have also proven to be very effective
- Use of soothing music as therapy
- Sharing the problem with peer group
- If needed consult a clinicians