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What is stress and do you suffer from it?

September 21, 2008

Stress is not something that our forefathers were familiar with, although their lives were surely filled with lots of stressful events related to high mortality rates and incurable disease, but the concept of stress just wasn’t known as such. People definitely did suffer from breakdowns and depression, but the concept of stress was not recognized as an illness or a disease and there was no support for the concept of ‘managing stress‘ either.

Today, stress seems to fill our lives and also seem to be mostly self-inflicted! Some personality types just seem to be more prone to stress than others. The first step in doing somehting about stress, much like dealing with alcoholism, is admitting that you are suffering from it!

“Hallo my name is Jim and I suffer from stress….” – is a line that is very hard to say for people who suffer from stress!

Most people who suffer from stress are not aware of the fact, and only find out too late when they already have some type of heart disease, high blood pressure, neck and shoulder stiffness, or migraine problem identified. Or when their family make them aware of the fact that they are always in a hurry, never have time, have anger explosions for the slightest provocation and are, frankly, just miserable people to live with. Being aware that you are stressed is the first step to dealing with stress.

If you are not sure whether you are stressed or not, you might consider taking a stress test, such as the one on the site http://www.managing-stress.org, to see just how stressed you are.

Disclaimer: This posting is based on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals that deal with stress. The information given here should not be construed to be any sort of medical advice. For medical advice the reader should consult with his or her physician or other medical specialist.
 

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