Stress is a part of life in many areas of our everyday lives, be it professional, family or social stress. However, there are methods and ways to strengthen your own resistance to stress, your stress resilience.
Here you will find further information and selected specialists for stress management.
On the one hand, stress can be a good thing, allowing people to get the best out of themselves. This so-called eustress helps with this,
On the other hand, however, stress can also be negative, have an inhibiting effect and make you ill. Doctors refer to this type of stress as disstress. It leaves those affected in a constant state of internal alarm and saps their energy. For example, sleep may be disturbed or the immune system noticeably weakened.
Without the right stress management, the negative influence of disstress on the body and psyche can hardly be stopped. In the end, people with chronic stress (permanent stress) can even become ill. Studies show that stress at work is as harmful as smoking, especially for heart patients. In both cases, the risk of death increases significantly.
The body always reacts to stress in the same way. In human evolution, one of the greatest stress factors was an attack by a predator. This attack triggered a so-called fight-or-flight response in human ancestors. If the fight was unlikely to be won, the decision was made to flee.
Physiologically, the body controls such a stress response with the help of stress hormones such as adrenaline. This hormone puts all the senses on alert. It causes the pulse and breathing to increase and the skeletal muscles to tense. After a successful escape, the stress hormones in the blood are reduced and the stress response ends.
This continues to work in the same way to this day. Without appropriate stress management, the stress response can repeat itself day after day and become chronic.
The level of stress hormones in the blood then remains continuously high: people are under constant stress, not without health consequences.
For example, a recent study found that work stress causes significantly more deaths than
In order to prevent this, individual stress management comes into play.
Stress-related illnesses include
Stress management comprises a range of procedures and methods that can reduce or at least alleviate stress in a particular life situation. The aim is to bring body and mind back into balance.
Above all, stress management is intended to help reduce internal and external pressures that those affected can no longer escape themselves. The following methods and techniques from psychotherapy can be helpful:
These methods are primarily intended to strengthen your self-confidence and improve the way you deal with stress.
Stress management can help you deal better with stressful situations and thus benefit your health © Andrey Popov | AdobeStock
The following are also suitable for daily stress reduction
Stress factors and the reaction to stress are very individual. How we deal with stress and when stress is perceived as such can also differ from person to person. It is therefore advisable to seek help from various experts for good stress management.
Specialists from the fields of
are frequent points of contact for stress patients. However, you will also find support in
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