Stress Relief - Some Suggestions About How Not To Deal With Stress

By Donald Saunders

There are many techniques available today which can deal with the short-term symptoms of acute stress and provided a cure for chronic stress. Unfortunately, there are also a large number of common strategies being employed today that are counter-productive. There are many ways in which you can go wrong when it comes to dealing with stress and here are some of the more frequently seen errors.

One common symptom of stress is that it can lead to your being short tempered and inclined to lash out at both your loved ones and trusted friends. It can also lead some people into drinking excessive alcohol and coffee, both of which simply create increased stress and an even greater tendency towards a shortness of temper.

Another common result of stress is insomnia. If something is worrying you and you are feeling physically uncomfortable then it is often difficult to relax sufficiently for sleep. And, when you do for sleep, your sleep is often light, interrupted and anything but restful.

As a solution for insomnia many people turn to sleeping pills and, while in the very short term these can be useful, it is all too common for people to become dependent upon sleep medication. The result of this is that you not only have your original stress, but you now have the added problem of a dependency on sleeping pills.

Another problem is that people under stress often tend to lose their objectivity. A heightened focus on problem solving can be extremely beneficial but obsessing about a problem will almost certainly be counter-productive. When addressing the problem that is causing your stress, try to look at it as if it were that of a friend rather and yourself. You'll find that we are often much better at maintaining our objectivity and coming up with a solution to a problem when that problem is someone else's.

Some people will try to cope with stress by doing the right thing but by doing it for the wrong reason. If your stress is being caused by a problem at home for example you might decide to throw yourself into a project at work. Shifting your focus away from the problem at home will allow you to avoid it in the short-term but this is only a temporary solution and one which is likely to simply mask what could well be a growing problem at home.

Of course there are times when ignoring a problem might well be the best course of action and on occasion problems do indeed simply go away by themselves. In the case of chronic stress however the circumstances which give rise to stress do not normally fall into this category and it is rare for them to simply go away because you're not thinking about them. A temporary break can be useful in helping you to gain perspective and perhaps to get your emotions under control but be careful to ensure that the temporary break doesn't turn into a case of burying your head in the sand.

At the end of the day our lives are filled with hurdles which we need to overcome and when we meet these hurdles with doubts about our ability to do so we inevitably become stressed. From time to time it is possible for us to simply sidestep these hurdles, but more often than not we will need to face them head on and to find a way to cross them. The secret lies in learning to cope with these hurdles and in banishing any doubt about our ability to overcome them.

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