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Stress: Causes, Effects and Coping Strategies

   

Added on  2019-10-18

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StressStress is a mental condition. The factors which cause are called stressors. The more we thinkabout the factors the more stressed we feel on a mental and physical level. Stress is a normalpart of our life. There are many life events which cause us stress. Stress is almost found in allage groups. Every individual has their own stress trigger. Work related stress is the mostcommon. Being unhappy with your work is the biggest stress factor of the modern world.Having too many responsibilities on your shoulder causes stress (Misra & Srivastava, 2016).For example in the case of working women sometimes they need to cope with their work aswell as household activities (Krishnan, 2014). Children are mostly dependent on their motherfor various needs. This keeps them too occupied and is a great factor for stress. There are many stress factors in work like long working hours, working under dangerousconditions or may be facing some harassment at workplace. Stress can be at any age group.There are a lot of students who have a stressful academic life. While teenage is approachedthere is the stress of getting into high school with good grades and further college admission.There can be multiple factors of stress at any age group. At times stress is from inside ratherthan the outside world. There can be many things you just worry about causing stress toyourself. In this situation, stress is created. This kind of stress should be avoided as much aspossible. Another stress causing factor is fear. Fear of events on which we don’t have ourcontrol. Like in news, we hear a lot about war and terrorism. We don’t have any control onall these. We live in a state of uncertainty and fear. Stress also comes with our own attitudeand perception. Some people manage multiple works. How they take care of a particularsituation and their perception regarding a situation helps them a lot. This can be bestexplained with an example if your Fridge is stolen then some people might take it as ‘it’s ok’it was just a fridge it can be replaced and some might get stressed or panicked thinking that if1

the thief comes back or if they try to harm next time. Hence our attitude also matters a lotdeciding stress factors. Having over expectation from yourself is another concern. Somepeople have a habit of overloading themselves with work. They think that they can finishwhatever given to then on time and if it does not happen they feel much stressed. This is avery common scenario in the workplace again the changes in life. For some people, change isa necessary they feel stressed when they are asked to do same things every day. Life becomesvery monotonous and they feel much stressed about it and for some, any change is a factorfor stress, for example, change of job, marriage, any financial setback, family crises etc.There can be many reasons for stress and it differs from individual to individual (Lee, Joo, &Choi, 2012).Short term stress does not have any effect on the body but chronic stress can have severeeffects. Stress not only affects your body but also your mind and behaviour. There are manybehavioural changes caused due to stress. There are things which we can observe in ourselvesduring stress such as overeating or under eating. Either a person eats too much in stress ordoes not eat at all. There can be frequent anger outbursts or the person may remain silent.During stress, a person can easily deviate towards habits like drugs and alcohol. Theyconsider all these like distress and become addicted to it. Also, there is strong socialwithdrawal. There is a tendency to sink in you. The person does not like to meet or talk toanyone. In severe cases, there can be suicidal tendencies. Stress also affects the mood of theindividual. The person becomes very anxious and restlessness. In a temporary situation it canbe handled but in prolonged stress, changes the person’s mood and causes anxiety. Alongwith anxiety, there is also irritability and anger (Sandi, 2016). As the person experiences alack of motivation it becomes irritable. It becomes difficult to interact with that person. Theperson keeps himself in isolation. The stress levels might go up due to this. Stress has asevere effect on the body. It triggers the fight or flight mechanism (Leonard, 2009). Here the2

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