Ways to Combat Stress

Stress is very tied to our perceptions and ways of interpreting specific situations in which we are involved. For this reason there is no "recipe" that works for everyone.

In our society, common symptoms of stress camouflage taking medication. However, the absence of symptoms does not mean that the stress is removed. Despite the absence of external symptoms continues to stress its insidious destructive work in the body. In fact, relying on drugs to relieve stress can aggravate the situation because, by ingesting drugs, what we are doing is removing the warning signs your body gives us and tell us that we must reduce the burden we are imposing our body.

From a psychological perspective, the various stress management strategies can be divided into two main types. Those that focus on emotion and those that focus on the problem.

The first sought to change the way we interpret or evaluate stressful situations. Suppose your spouse decides to divorce you. Instead of grieving and despair you may decide that, after all, he or she is not his favorite kind of person. This type of strategy can sometimes result in a distortion of reality. But it is also true that it can result in a very effective way of handling a stressful situation allowing reinterpret it in a more positive emotional states and avoiding unhealthy.

The second type of strategies is problem-solving strategies that work directly with the stressful situation so that it is reduced or eliminated. These strategies usually what is done is identify the problem, or generate and apply appropriate solutions to the problem. Once this is achieved is expected to stress disappears. Usually the better is a better problem-solving person may use such a strategy. For this reason it may be trained in effective techniques and strategies of solving problems.