STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress Effects and Management

Stress Effects and Management

Introduction

Stress is an emotional disorder that manifests itself by a feeling of insecurity. Stress is characterized by feelings of apprehension, tension, uneasiness and terror faced with the risk of indeterminate nature. It is often expressed by the patient in terms of nervousness or worry. People differentiate panic disorder (corresponding to acute anxiety attacks occur periodically) and the constant stress (generalized anxiety disorder or anxiety neurosis), which affects individuals in a sustainable manner. The major sources of stress are life changes, chronic stressors, hassles, burnout, frustration and conflict. Exposure to numerous stressful events within a short period of time could have a detrimental effect on health.

Problem Statement

With the rapid changes in social institutions and growing competition, pressure on people is increasingly prominent. The excessive pressure causes great damage to physical and mental health of the people also possesses a negative impact. Therefore, how to ease the excessive pressure of work and maintain a healthy state of mind is the core responsibility. The stress has led people suffer from the apathetic disease of social intercourse and the disease of sorrow, even the cases of "die of the over-fatigue" appear continuously. The problem here is to manage the stress with best possible technique.

Goals and Objectives

The goals and objectives of the proposal are to highlight

Stress management techniques

Ranking the stress management techniques in terms of personal effectiveness

Providing a rationale for the selected technique

Methods

Although a long-term drug therapy appears necessary in the treatment of Stress disorders, there is currently no treatment that has been adequately evaluated in the long term. The short-term use of benzodiazepines remains the standard treatment when non-drug treatment is inadequate. Stress is an internal feeling which can easily be treated by therapy and counseling. It is unlikely, therefore, that any single method of stress management is necessarily the best and whilst one approach may be effective for one individual, it may not be for another. A combination of approaches may be more successful (Davis, 1996). The best method for stress management is, therefore, medications and use of psychoactive drugs.

Literature review

Stress comes in two forms, acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) and can be experienced either externally or internally. External stressors may include pain, extreme temperature changes, and poor, working conditions or unhappy, unfulfilling relationships. Internal stressors may include illnesses, infections or worry. Acute stress is the physiological reaction to an immediate threat. It is ...