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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.
When to seek help
Spotting and addressing early signs of an issue can prevent it escalating. If employees raise an issue and managers are confident and capable of taking action, then early intervention is preferable. The hse has produced the talking toolkit to help managers start a conversation with their employees in identifying stressors (risks) to help manage and prevent work-related stress. Employers should invest in:
developing a supportive work culture to encourage staff to discuss and seek support when experiencing stress.
Providing, and signposting to, sources of support, for example a counselling service, employee assistance programme and charities. Developing the people management skills and confidence of managers so they can have sensitive conversations with staff.
Why stress happens and how to manage it
What can people do for stress management? what are home remedies to combat stress symptoms?.
Jim is an internationally recognised expert in stress management. Aware that health-care organisations were seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of those suffering from stress and, therefore, unable to do any significant preventative or early intervention work, he devised stress control over thirty years ago as an attempt to improve outcomes for individuals while, at the same time, hugely improving efficiency by offering evidence-based help to many more people than individual approaches would allow. At the time, this was a highly unusual approach. However following peer-reviewed research and evaluation showing how well this approach worked, the class has become widely available across the world.
Stress—also known as psychological stress—describes what people experience when they are under mental, physical, or emotional pressure. Stressors—factors that can cause stress—can arise from people’s daily responsibilities and routines, including work, family, and finances. Other stressors include external factors such as early life adversity, exposure to certain environmental conditions, poverty, discrimination, and inequities in the social determinants of health. Serious health issues, such as a cancer diagnosis in oneself or a close friend or family member, can also cause stress. The body responds to external stressors by releasing stress hormones (such as epinephrine and norepinephrine ) that increase blood pressure , heart rate, and blood sugar levels.