When is professional help needed for stress management?
Stress in a mismatch between the demands made on you and your ability to meet those demands. During this recession, many businesses are being forced to produce the same level of productivity with fewer employees. This causes stress among line staff as well as managers and Executives.
Stress Management skills can be taught to motivated persons willing to practice skill enhancement in self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship.
Theres a fine line between feeling stressed out while still being able to function effectively, and the debilitating, even paralyzing phenomenon we think of as burnout or breakdown. The difference is between handling your stress on your own, and being unable to figure out what to do because the pressures of life have become so overwhelming. It’s time to seek professional help if you: • Feel that stress is affecting your health. • Feel that it will never end. • Feel so desperate that you think about quitting your job, running away, taking a drug overdose, or injuring yourself. • Feel depressed, sad, tearful, or that life is not worth living. • Lose your appetite and find it difficult to sleep. • Are managing your stress level by eating, sleeping, drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking, or using recreational drugs. • Have worries, feeling and thoughts that are difficult to talk about. • Hear voices telling you what to do. I am in the process to release a guide on 5 minute meditation signu
