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Егор Кузьмин. Stress Relief. How to Manage Stress in Everyday Life, Prevent Depression and Improve Mental Health
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sources of stress
Chapter 2: Symptoms of stress
Chapter 3: How to effectively fight against stress?
Chapter 4: How to recognize depression
Chapter 5: How do I help a depressed person?
Chapter 6: Twenty simple steps to improve mental health
Conclusion
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Almost daily we hear people use the word stress, so it seems that almost everyone knows what this phenomenon represents and how to recognize it, not not how to prevent or mitigate its harmful consequences.
People often say that they are under stress, where the term stress includes some external factors that they cannot possibly influence. They complain of stress at work, at school, at home, at the store, in traffic jams, but at the same time feel powerless to do anything about it.
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However, when the level of stress remains elevated for a long time; when the load is large and our strategy for fighting the problems is not effective, it has a negative impact both on psychological and physical health, capacity, productivity and quality of life in general. It is therefore important to understand the essence of stress, be aware of its sources, assess our own strength, willingness and ability to take action in terms of facing and overcoming its unhealthy consequences, as well as to learn new or improve existing strategies in this fight.
This problem becomes even more significant if the person is prone to doing everything alone, i.e. does not share her workload with her colleagues, family members, or friends. If there she has no confidence in them, the belief that everything must be done by herself grows. Then she has the impression that the entire responsibility is on her.
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