How Can You Reduce Stress In Your Life?

Posted by Dr Satyakant Trivedi on March 15th, 2020

Stress is a feeling that is caused by being under extreme pressure. This pressure that we experience can come from different aspects of our routine life. It includes increase in the workload, an argument with the loved ones, or existing financial issues. By being surrounded in those stressful situations, you may feel upset or threatened that would affect you in both physical and emotional ways. According to psychiatrist in Bhopal – Dr. Satyakant Trivedi, this can further lead to change in the behavior patterns and you would also experience more intense stress emotions.

What are the signs of stress?

Each and everyone experience stress some or the other time. However, whenever you notice that it’s affecting your mental health and wellbeing, then it becomes equally important to tackle it as early as possible. The signs of stress are as follows:

• Constant feelings of worry or anxiety
• Feeling of being overwhelmed
• Difficulty in concentrating on something
• Mood swings
• Irritability
• Having a short temper
• Difficulty in relaxing
• Depression
• Low self-esteem
• Eating more or less
• Changes in the sleeping patterns
• Using alcohol, tobacco or drugs to relax
• Aches and pains
• Diarrhea and constipation
• Feelings of dizziness

If you have been experiencing these types of signs for a longer period of time, and you feel that it’s affecting your routine life, then you must consult psychiatrist in Bhopal.

What to do when you feel stressed?

1. Realize when it is interfering in your life:

• Try to find the connections between feeling tired and the pressure that you’ve been facing.
• Find out if there are some physical issues such as over-tiredness, headaches or migraines

2. Identify the causes:

• Try to identify the underlying causes
• Sort out the causes of your stress into the categories like what you can do for it and what you can’t and act accordingly
• Start to release the worries or tension of what you can’t do anything.

3. Review your lifestyle:

• Is it important for you to take too much of stress?
• Are there things which are overburdening you, can be handed over to someone else?
• For answering these questions, you need to prioritize the situations you’ve been trying to achieve. This will also help you in re-organizing your life.
• This will further help you in getting rid of the stress that would be coming from trying to do everything at once.