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Overcoming Stress

Do you suffer from Stress?

Stress is not just about the everyday pressures in your life, but how you cope with and react to them.

Answer the questions below and estimate your stress potential.

1) Is your sleep erratic or disturbed?

2) Do you bite your nails or have other nervous ticks?

3) Do you want public recognition for the things you do?

4) Do you cry or feel like crying often?

5) Do you have difficulty making up your mind or taking decisions?

6) Do you feel unable to cope a lot of the time?

7) Are you constantly irritable and snappy with those close to you?

8) Do you feel a failure?

9) Do you have disturbing thoughts or fantasies?

10) Do you worry too much over things that are in fact, unimportant?

11) Are you angered easily by events or people?

12) Are you impatient over any delays?

13) Do you dislike yourself?

14) Do you feel dissatisfied with yourself or your life?

15) Do you feel nauseous, faint or sweat for no obvious reason?

 

If your answers to the majority of these questions is “yes”, you could benefit from practicing “Relaxation techniques”

Most of the situations mentioned above are centred within your personality, yet it is possible to consciously change your stress reactions.

Now answer these questions to see how you are affected in a stressful situation.

1) Are you Tense? Do your Shoulders and Neck feel tight?

2) Do you lie awake at night worrying and planning the next day?

3) Are you Smoking or Drinking more than usual?

4) Are you eating less, or less well than usual?

5) Do you feel guilty when taking time to relax, instead of doing something?

6) Do you start another task before you have finished your current one?

7) Do you experience a “Dry mouth” or “Sweaty palms”?

8) Do you find yourself snapping or yelling at people in the car or in a shop?

9) Do you feel you have too much to think about or too much to cope with?

10) Do you frequently feel frustrated by, or let down by other people?

11) Do you have “Ringing in the Ears” or suffer from other “Head” noises?

12) Do you seem to get any illness that is going around?

13) Do you have difficulties thinking about or solving problems?

14) Do you get recurring headaches or suffer from other recurring physical symptoms?

15) Do you feel “fine” until one small incident, like the car not starting, makes your whole life seem unmanageable?

If you answered “yes” to more than half of these questions, you should actively start to seek ways to reduce your Stress Condition.