Set limits.
List all of the projects and commitments that are making you feel overwhelmed. Identify those tasks you feel you absolutely must do in order to survive, and cut back on anything nonessential. For projects that are work-related, discuss a list of your responsibilities with your supervisor and get their input on priorities and how best to tackle the projects at hand. For commitments that are social or nonwork related, such as community or volunteer activities, consider contacting the people you’ve made these commitments to and letting them know that you cannot meet those obligations at this time.
Financial problems, personal relationship issues, moving house, mental health issues or difficulties at work can all make us feel stressed. To help you be ready to respond to situations that can seem threatening or stressful your body will make physical adjustments. It might release hormones to increase your heart rate or boost your blood pressure or stop your digestion so that you can “fight or flight”. But these responses should only last a few minutes and problems can arise when you experience feelings of heightened stress for long periods of time and your body is constantly behaving in a way to help you fight back, because this can make your feelings of stress worse.
10. Be kind to yourself
Keep things in perspective. Focussing on only the bad things that might happen will prevent you from enjoying the good things that are happening just now. Recognise your own signs of stress, and take charge of your own emotions, thoughts and actions.
Keep a positive attitude. Try changing your thinking from "there's no help anyone can give me" to "what can i do improve my situation". Be kind to yourself. Seek support from other people - discussing sources of worry with others rather than keeping them to yourself can help. Even if they can't directly change the source of stress, another person's point of view can put things in a different light.
Stress symptoms: Effects on your body and behavior
A body that won’t wind down from acth and adrenaline can be impacted psychologically, physically, and emotionally.
developing a personalized approach to reducing stress can help you manage your mental health condition and improve your quality of life. Once you've learned what your triggers are, experiment with coping strategies. Some common ones include: accept your needs. Recognize what your triggers are. What situations make you feel physically and mentally agitated? once you know this, you can avoid them when it's reasonable to, and to cope when you can't. Manage your time. Prioritizing your activities can help you use your time well. Making a day-to-day schedule helps ensure you don't feel overwhelmed by everyday tasks and deadlines. Practice relaxation.
Identifying patterns in your stress could help you to better manage these feelings and reduce your stress levels with a quick activity. Complete the stress patterns activity in the video, or you can just write things down in a list if you find that more useful. You will need coloured pens and paper for this activity. After drawing your own stress pattern, look at it carefully. Ask yourself: what pattern do you notice? is it always the same things that make you stressed? does stress change your body, feelings, and thoughts in the same way each time? do the same things help you to feel better? consider doing this activity repeatedly over time.