Self-Care Tip #9: Deal With Your Stress NOW
What is stress? What is YOUR stress? People identify all kinds of reasons for why they feel stressed. They attribute their stress to financial instability to family related issues to unhappy work environments. In my practice, I see many clients who are stressed because of interpersonal disharmony. This can be caused from their primary relationship, their co-workers at their job or general dissatisfaction with their job that they may characterize as unstimulating or even overstimulating with a workload that is too big. The reasons go on and on but current social research reflects that 3/4s of Americans seeking medical care experience stress-related symptoms that are the cause of their complaints. The breakdown of stress symptoms is the following:
- Physical complaints= 77%
- Psychological complaints= 73%
Common complaints include fatigue, insomnia, headaches, anxiety and chronic physical aches and pains. Stress keeps doctors and the large pharmaceutical corporations thriving because it is the doctor who usually first sees the patient complaining of these stress-related symptoms. Most doctors prescribe medication and some might even suggest lifestyle changes, knowing fully well that only some patients will change the way they live their lives.