As human being everyone goes through it and it is the part of life. The thing is how you cope up with this and overcome stress and depression. Sometimes it is quite easy and sometimes it is extremely difficult to manage and recover from it. You get stress from work, from family, from friends, and from the things that annoys you and eventually all these stress lead you towards depression. Depression does not grow alone but it is a long term process from small stresses that you get daily and piles up in your living.
What is Stress
According to MedicalEncyclopedia stress is defined as follows, "Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension, It can come from any event or thoughts that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous. Stress is your body's reaction to a challenge or demand. In short burst, stress can be positive, such as when it helps you to avoid danger or meet a deadline. But when stress lasts a long time, it may harm your health."
As defined, stress can be physical or emotional. Physical stress is often recoverable, however, emotional stress is very dangerous and it may cause you suffering a lot and lead towards a long term depression. And these feelings can make it more difficult to deal with things and people you surround by. An emotional stress not only impacts your mental health, it also destroys your physical health very quickly and makes you unhealthier.
What are the signs of stress
Everybody experience stress and it can differ by people in different situations. Sometimes you already know it that you are going through a stress or sometimes it gives you inside pain that before you know it drags you down the ground without recognizing it. There are signs of stress that how you might feel:
You feel anxious, nervous, or afraid
Forgetfulness
Unable to enjoy the moment
Irritation
You feel aggressive and impatient
You feel extremely tired
You react quickly and aggressively
You feel headache
You feel over-burdened and lonely
You get digestion problem
You gain or loss weight
You feel nobody loves you
Constantly worrying and feel un-secure
What can cause stress
When you are in too much stress it impacts in your habits. You start doing unusual things that you have never done before and find yourself consuming new habits mostly unhealthy that is both dangerous for physical and mental health. Feelings of stress are normally triggered by things in your life which involves:
Heavy or excessive consumption of alcohol
Being under a lot of pressure
Worrying about uncertainties
Not getting enough exercise
Spending too much time on watching TV or playing video games
Smoking too much
Facing big changes
How to overcome it
It is not always possible to avoid stress, but taking steps to do so may help. Stress relief can also help prevent depressive symptoms from developing. It may also help to reduce the amount of stress that leads to depression. You may go through these process to overcome or relief stress not to feel depressed.
Getting enough sleep
Eating a healthy diet
Taking a break from work
Travel more whenever have time
Read more on motivational topics
Work out regularly and sweat more from your body
Consume less caffein and alcohol
Other activities such as yoga or meditation can help you to reduce stress. Even attending group activities like religious gathering, group discussion activities can help you a lot to overcome stress and depression. To relief from depression you need to talk to the right person with the right topics that will help to reduce the amount of it and eventually help you to recover from it.
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