Best ways to reduce stress?

Question

I am so stressed and angry right now! I need some ideas on how to reduce my stress before I just totally lose it!

Answer 1

All of us experience stress, to one degree or another, in our everyday lives. Stress is the body’s reaction to an event that is experienced as disturbing or threatening. Stress is one of those nasty things that make millions of people suffer. But one of the biggest problems with stress is that it can creep up on you. It’s like carbon monoxide. It can build up and do you serious harm without you knowing about it. After all, it’s so easy to become so wrapped up with the events in your life that you overlook the fact that you’re full of stress and tension. You know you could cut your life short by not dealing with stress! That’s where the signs of stress are worth their weight in gold. They act as an early warning system. They give you the opportunity do something about stress before it cause you any harm. So with that in mind, I will tell you about signs to look for if your stressed out and ways to deal with it.
There are many symptoms of stress. There are short term, long term, physical, internal, and even behavioral effects. You may suffer from more stress then you think. So here are some symptoms of stress that you can use to determine if you’re to stressed out or not.
The short-term physical symptoms include all symptoms that will happen during the earlier stages of stress and will affect your body and things related to your body. The symptoms include:
Faster heartbeat
Increased sweating
Cool skin
Cold hands and feet
Feeling of nausea or "butterflies"
Rapid breathing
Tense muscles
Dry mouth
A desire to urinate
Diarrhea
The short-term performance effects include all of the symptoms that will, in the earlier stages of stress, affect your performance in different areas such as neatness and decision making. The short-term performance effects include of the following symptoms:
Interferes clear judgment and makes it difficult to take time to make good decisions
Seriously reduced enjoyment of work
Gets in the way of fine motor control
Causes difficult situations to be seen as threats, not challenges
Damages positive frame of mind
Consumes mental energy in distraction, anxiety, frustration, and temper
The long-term physical symptoms include of all of the symptoms, that in the later stages of stress, will affect your body or things related to your body. The long term physical symptoms include of the following symptoms:
Change in appetite
Frequent colds or congestion
Sexual disorders
Aches and pains
Feeling of intense long-term tiredness
Blaming others
Poor problem solving
The internal symptoms include of all symptoms that affect your inner body, such as inner body parts or even your mind. The internal symptoms include of the following symptoms:
Worry or anxiety
Confusion
Feeling ill (light headed, headaches, etc.)
Feeling out of control or overwhelmed by events
Feeling more lethargic
Having a difficulty sleeping
Increased drinking and smoking habits
Changing eating habits
Reduced sex drive
Relying more on medication
Depression
Irritable
The symptoms included in the behavioral symptoms of stress category are all of the symptoms that will affect you in ways related to behavior, such as habits and speaking. The behavioral symptoms include:
talking too fast or too loud
yawning
fiddling and twitching
nail biting
grinding of teeth
drumming of fingers
pacing
changing work habits
increased absenteeism
neglect of personal appearance
Withdrawal
Inability to rest
Change in social activity
Now why you feel these symptoms. A major cause of stress is personality. People who suffer from perfectionism, excessive self-effacement, and anxiety suffer from stress more than any other group. People with these personalities especially perfectionism, don’t let anything satisfy them and get caught up in the things that really aren’t that important, therefore causing stress. Just because you don’t suffer from any personality disorder doesn’t mean your free from stress. Those who suffer from stress can be ordinary, every day people, like doctors, students, and even teachers. Everyone will face stress in your life. The most common life stressors are:
Death of a close family member
Major personal injury or illness
Work
School
Change in health of a family member
Pregnancy
Gaining a new family member
Marriage
Marital separation
Divorce
Change in health of a family member
Major business readjustments
If you are too passive with others, you may come to feel that everyone is taking advantage of you or controlling you. On the other hand, if you are too aggressive in your dealings with other people, you may antagonize them and create more stress for yourself. Assertiveness training is one way of expressing your needs without feeling ignored or offending others. A number of effective communication techniques can be explored in therapy. Our stress levels increase when we try to deal with life’s difficulties alone. Talking things through with a good listener can help us to put things into a more realistic perspective — and the mere act of talking about issues that we usually hold inside serves to reduce our stress levels. Other ways you can deal with stress is exercise, release your anger and frustration in a good run. Eat sensibly because some foods like chocolate and caffeine can be comforting they also cause stress. Give yourself a break even if it’s only for a few moments daily. Try to prioritize a few truly important things and let the rest slide. Learn to recognize stress for what it is. Increase your body's feedback and make stress self-regulating.
If your not careful stress could actually kill you. Stress causes death in ways both natural and man-made. No matter if it is natural or man-made, it is horrible and shows the furthest extent of what stress can do to you. The natural deaths caused by the effects of stress and stress itself are not always instant. They sometimes cause your body to wear down and are as follows:
high-blood pressure
heart attack
asthma attack
body breakdown
There are other ways of death caused by stress other than disease or things to do with your mind, and that is suicide. In the most severe cases of stress the victim feels so overwhelmed by the effects of stress, that they feel the only way out is to end it all. This is a horrible thing but that is the extent of what stress can do to you.
Did you ever look at modern life? Modern life is go, go, go, rush, rush, rush, I must do this, and I must do that. All the pressure builds up, than one day you suddenly and think, “Why am I felling so bad?” By that stage, it’s too late. Stress has got a foothold and it’s making your life misery. But it doesn’t stop there! The longer it takes you to realize that you’re under stress, the harder it becomes to remove it from your life. So if you got anything out of my speech I hope it is RELAX. Relax and take things day by day. Don’t cut life short by not taking a few steps that I told you tonight, and use them to relive stress. Life is too short; don’t cut it shorter by not trying to do something about your stress. Words 1201

Answer 2

I get stressed in my commute as well. I would have to say first you have to figure out where is the stress coming from. Is it that you are stressed from traffic? Stressed from a fear about driving, such as getting into an accident? Stress from aggressive drivers, stress because you bought a new car and you are worried something will happen to in in your commute, etc? Once you figure out what is the root cause of your stress it will be easier to deal with. For example, if you are stressed from traffic, find an alternate route, maybe it will be longer but if it is trough the countryside it may be less stressful, this will also work for avoiding aggressive drivers. You could also get a new stereo installed into your car and listen to your favorite music during your commute, or get XM and listen to whatever suites you that day. Get your mind off the worry and think about what what you are going to do to when you arrive at work or home. But whatever you do, don't text or talk on the cell phone while driving.

Answer 3

listen to Kenny G, exercise , take a hot bath , breath in & out slowly, ask god to releive your stress, and wories .

Answer 4

All the answers above cant be judged at all....but you are missing one thing have sex with your crush or partner...trust me you will be killing it during sex....or just watch porn but it won't be as soothing as real sex with your partner

Answer 5

music. sing. dance. sex or masturbation. try 1stholistic.com. or beliefnet.com. talk to me [e-mail]. try 1800 lifenet.

Answer 6

find a loved one who will listen to you and REALLY LISTEN..hopefully they have spirituality.

Answer 7

Masturbate. It works every time.

Answer 8

pray and go to church.IT REALLY WORKS

Answer 9

Exercise people it really works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

YOGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!