Stress Reduction !! ??

Question

Everyone responds to stress differently. How do you usually react to increased levels of stress? Is your method of coping healthy or unhealthy? How could you improve your ability to cope?

Answer 1

My method is very unhealthy to me and the people around me. I get very grouchy and mean and impatient. I will watch other answers to try and figure out how to beat this.

Answer 2

When i feel stressful i would blast techno music and do some workouts or exercises. After the workout, i would take a nap and feel better after i woke up. I considered mine as healthy i think.

How could you improve your ability to cope?
Ans: to this question, i would suggest talking out your problems to your parents, or friends. But i will not do this. I think exercise is the best way for me to de-stress.

Answer 3

I would assume you are referring to negative stressors which are referred to as distress. it is true that everyone handles distress differently, but there are measures you can take to reduce or cope with distress. these measures depends on the area of your life where the distress is occurring, may it be finances, school, economical, relationships, work, internal, etc. You have to approach each distress categorically. For example, if you are distressed about finances (who's not) you have to evaluate your situation and find out just what exactly is causing you the pain and horror and place it in perspective. If it's bills are the problem you may want to take measures to eliminate them and so on.

Answer 4

I find Yoga to be very helpful, even if you can't get into all the spiritual meditation stuff, some of the movements are designed to relieve stress, and are very helpful. Do a search and you can find tons of websites on how on it, without spending any money, or you can pick up a video.