Stress

Signs of stress

• Physical signs
• Mental signs
• Behavioural signs
• Job stress signs

Symptoms

• Insomnia
• Loss of mental concerntration
• Absenteeism
• Depression
• Extreme anger and frustration
• Family conflict
• Migrane, headaches and back problems

Causes of stress

• Job insecurity
• High performance demand
• Bad boss
• Workplace culture
• Personal or family problems
• Technology

Eustress

• Eustress, or positive stress, has the following characteristics:
  • Motivates, focuses energy
  • Is short term
  • Is perceived as within our coping abilities
  • Feels exciting
  • Improves performance
• Positive stress results
  • Enables concertatration
  • Increases performance
  • Energizes you into motion

Distress

• In contrast, distress or negative stress have the following characteristics:
  • Causes anxiety or concern
  • Can be short or long term
  • Is perceived as outside of our coping abilities
  • Feels unpleasant
  • Decreases performance
  • Can lead to mental and physical problems
• Negative stress results
  • Loss of motivation
  • Reduces effectiveness
  • Physical, mental and behavioural problems

Stress management

• It is the phase of improvement of stress and especially chronic stress often for the purpose of improving everday functioning.
• Stress produces numerous symptoms which vary according to persons, situations, and severity. These can include physical health decline as well as depression.

Types of stress

• Acute stress: it is usually for short time and may be due to work pressure, meeting deadlines pressure or minor accident, increased physical activity, searching something but you misplaced it, or similar things.
  • Symptoms: headaches, back pain, stomach problems, rapid heartbeat, muscle aches or body pain.
• Chronic stress: this types of stress is the most serious of all the 3 stress types.
  • Chronic stress is a prolonged stress that exists for weeks, months, or even years.
  • This stress is due to poverty, broken or stressed families and marriages, chronic illness and successive failures in life.
  • It is very harmful to their health.

Advantages of stress management

• Less absenteeism due to stress related disorders
• Less worker's compensation loss due to stress-related illness or accidents
• Improved job performance
• Less stressful, more efficient workplace.
• Improved employee attitude
• Improved employee overall health

Disadvantages of stress

• Stress is a disadvantange because it can potentially raise your heart rate and weaken your immune system.
• Also, it can be a factor in poor decision making because under stress we may not think logicaly or consider the consequences of the choices we make.

Relief from stress

• Create the habit of deep breaths
• Visualize and communicate your vision
• Laugh
• Be aware of your choices, you always have a choice
• Learn to say no
• Be thankful
• Listen to music