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Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure.

 

Pressure turns into stress when you feel that you are in a situation where you are powerless and unable to cope. People have different ways of reacting to stress, so a situation that feels stressful to one person may be motivating to someone else.

 

Many of life’s demands can cause stress, particularly work, relationships and money problems. And, when you feel stressed, it can get in the way of sorting out these demands, or can even affect everything you do.

 

Stress can affect how you feel, think, behave and how your body works. In fact, common signs of stress include sleeping problems, sweating, loss of appetite and difficulty concentrating.


You may feel anxious, irritable or low in self esteem, and you may have racing thoughts, worry constantly or go over things in your head. You may notice that you lose your temper more easily, drink more or act unreasonably.


You may also experience headaches, muscle tension or pain, or dizziness.

The body's stress response

Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. Stress causes a surge of hormones in your body. These stress hormones are released to enable you to deal with pressures or threats – the so-called "fight or flight" response. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action, such that your:

  • heart pounds faster.
  • muscles tighten.
  • blood pressure rises.
  • breath quickens.
  • senses become sharper.

These physical changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus. This is known as the “fight or flight” or mobilisation stress response and is your body’s way of protecting you.

 

So when you need (or think you need) to defend yourself or run away from danger, your body prepares for mobilization, and your nervous system rouses for emergency action—preparing you to either fight or flee from the danger at hand.

 

If mobilisation fails, the body freezes instead, a response known as immobilization. In extreme, life-threatening situations, you may even lose consciousness, enabling you to survive high levels of physical pain. This can leave you traumatized or unable to move on.

 

Once the pressure or threat has passed, your stress hormone levels will usually return to normal. However, if you're constantly under stress, and in a situation where you are unable to 'fight or flight', these hormones will remain in your body, leading to the symptoms of stress.

 

When stress is within your comfort zone, it can help you to stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life—giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident.

 

Stress can also help you rise to meet challenges. It is what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, sharpens your concentration when you’re attempting the game-winning free throw, or drives you to study for an exam when you'd rather be watching TV.

 

But when your level of stress exceeds your own individual comfort zone, stress stops being helpful and its effects can start causing major damage to your mind and body.  

Causes of stress

The factors that cause stress are known as stressors. We usually think of stressors as being negative, such as an exhausting work schedule or a rocky relationship. However, anything that puts high demands on you can be stressful. This includes positive events such as getting married, buying a house, going to college, or receiving a promotion.

 

Of course, not all stress is caused by external factors. Stress can also be internal or self-generated, when you worry excessively about something that may or may not happen, or have irrational, pessimistic thoughts about life.

 

Common external causes of stress

  • Major life changes
  • Work or school
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Financial problems
  • Being too busy
  • Children and family

Common internal causes of stress

  • Chronic worry
  • Pessimism
  • Negative self-talk
  • Unrealistic expectations/Perfectionism
  • Rigid thinking, lack of flexibility
  • All-or-nothing attitude

Chronic stress

The body’s nervous system often does a poor job of distinguishing between daily stressors and life-threatening events. If you’re stressed over an argument with a friend, a traffic jam on your commute, or a mountain of bills, for example, your body can still react as if you’re facing a life-or-death situation.

 

When you repeatedly experience the mobilisation or fight-or-flight stress response in your daily life, it can lead to serious health problems.

 

Chronic stress (i.e. recurring or long-term stress) disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can shut down your immune system, upset your digestive and reproductive systems, raise blood pressure, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, speed up the aging process and leave you vulnerable to many mental and physical health problems.

 

Health problems caused or exacerbated by stress include:

  • Depression and anxiety
  • Weight problems
  • Auto immune diseases
  • Skin conditions, such as eczema
  • Reproductive issues
  • Pain of any kind
  • Heart disease
  • Digestive problems
  • Sleep problems
  • Cognitive and memory problems

Symptoms of chronic stress

The following lists detail some of the common warning signs and symptoms of chronic stress. The more signs and symptoms you notice in yourself, the closer you may be to stress overload:

 

Emotional Symptoms of Stress:

  • Becoming easily frustrated and irritable, sometimes escalating to anger and rage
  • Moodiness
  • Feeling overwhelmed, like you are losing control or need to take control
  • Having difficulty relaxing and quieting your mind
  • Feeling bad about yourself (low self-esteem), lonely, worthless, unhappy and depressed
  • Avoiding others
  • Tearfulness and crying/weeping
  • Anxiety and agitation
  • Loneliness and withdrawal, or isolation
  • Other mental or emotional health problems

Physical Symptoms of Stress:

  • Low energy
  • Headaches
  • Upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, and nausea
  • Aches, pains, and tense muscles
  • Chest pain and rapid heartbeat/heart palpitations
  • Insomnia and difficulties in sleeping
  • Frequent colds and infections
  • Loss of sexual desire, or sex drive, and/or ability
  • Nervousness and shaking, ringing in the ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet - excessive perspiration
  • Dry mouth and difficulty swallowing
  • Clenched jaw and grinding teeth
  • Blushing
  • Dizziness
  • Frequent colds or flu

Cognitive Symptoms of Stress:

  • Anxiety
  • Feelings of panic and of not being in control of thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
  • Constant worrying
  • Racing or anxious thoughts
  • Memory problems, and forgetfulness and disorganization
  • Inability to focus, or concentrate
  • Poor judgement
  • Being pessimistic or seeing only the negative side

Behavioural Symptoms of Stress:

  • Eating more or less
  • Sleeping too much or too little
  • Withdrawing from others
  • Procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities
  • Using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax
  • Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)

Approaches to treating Stress

One approach to dealing with stress, might be to focus on removing the external sources of stress, the stressors, such as:

  • Major life changes
  • Work or school
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Financial problems
  • Being too busy
  • Children and family

However in many cases, it may be very difficut, or impossible, or simply unwise, to remove the stressors. For example, advising a stressed out highly paid business executive that he needs to resign from his well paid job might well create far more stress for him when he finds he is faced with the challenge of trying to continue his existing lifestyle whilst on a greatly reduced income.

 

Many of the symptoms created by stress are identical to those symptoms associated with anxiety disorder, and with increasing levels of stress many of the symptoms of stress will become worse in severity, in terms of increasing:

  • Duration
  • Frequency
  • Intensity

Therapy can treat the underlying anxiety that creates the symptoms of stress, so that the person will change such that they develop a new, improved, 'psychological stress resilience', such that they now improve their ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions, such as family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial worries, among others.

Stress Management Therapy Treatment at The Surrey Hypnotherapy Clinic using Hypnosis, Psychotherapy & Counselling

Stress management therapy treatment at The Surrey Hypnotherapy Clinic uses a combination of Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling to successfully help people cope with stress with confidence.

 

This is done by reducing their underlying anxiety level of anxiety and increasing their confidence - the net result is that they are more capable of dealing with stressful situations more easily.

 

Effectively they develop, and improve, their psychological stress resilience - and they find that things and situations that they used to find stressful now no longer affect them in the way that they used to.

 

Stress tends to affect different people in different ways. Typically stress can affect people by adversely affecting their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour by producing, for example, any (or all) of the following symptoms:

 

Stress - Emotional Symptoms:

  • Becoming easily frustrated and irritable, sometimes escalating to anger and rage
  • Moodiness
  • Feeling overwhelmed, like you are losing control or need to take control
  • Having difficulty relaxing and quieting your mind
  • Feeling bad about yourself (low self-esteem), lonely, worthless, unhappy and depressed
  • Avoiding others
  • Tearfulness and crying/weeping
  • Anxiety and agitation
  • Loneliness and withdrawal, or isolation
  • Other mental or emotional health problems

Stress - Physical Symptoms:

  • Low energy
  • Headaches
  • Upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, and nausea
  • Aches, pains, and tense muscles
  • Chest pain and rapid heartbeat/heart palpitations
  • Insomnia and difficulties in sleeping
  • Frequent colds and infections
  • Loss of sexual desire, or sex drive, and/or ability
  • Nervousness and shaking, ringing in the ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet - excessive perspiration
  • Dry mouth and difficulty swallowing
  • Clenched jaw and grinding teeth
  • Blushing
  • Dizziness
  • Frequent colds or flu

Stress - Cognitive Symptoms:

  • Anxiety
  • Feelings of panic and of not being in control of thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
  • Constant worrying
  • Racing or anxious thoughts
  • Memory problems, and forgetfulness and disorganization
  • Inability to focus, or concentrate
  • Poor judgement
  • Being pessimistic or seeing only the negative side

Stress - Behavioural Symptoms:

  • Eating more or less
  • Sleeping too much or too little
  • Withdrawing from others
  • Procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities
  • Using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax
  • Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)

People react individually to stress, and so will usually experience maybe just one, any, or all, of the above symptoms, to a greater or lesser extent, dependent on the individual.

 

Peter's unique hypnosis therapy for stress helps to reduce the severity of the symptoms created by stress, in terms of the duration, frequency and intensity of those symptoms - so that the person becomes more confident and more capable and is now more able to cope with any stress that might arise in any area of their life.

 

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Find out more about the anxiety disorders

Suceptibility to stress  may be made worse by an underlying anxiety disorder.  Six major anxiety disorders have been formally identified, each with their own distinct symptom profile. You can read more about the other anxiety disorders here:

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