Stress creates anxiety and anxiety creates disorder which is harmful for a normal human life. Stress when clubbed with obsessive compulsive disorder makes the person unmanageable and is on border line personality disorder. In today’s world when compared with medieval era the stress level was not too high. In earlier days the performance of the person was the only key factor which was taken seriously but in today’s world the performance is clubbed with competition, excellence, organisation, technology, education, administration and execution.
This has brought major health issues. Today’s our lives are robotic. The leadership quality is no more to be seen. Becoming a boss in every field and trying to do the things alone and not taking the help of teammates has proven to be a major disaster.
Stress is also felt in educational sector too whether they are school going students or doctorate students. Parents and the teachers continuously keep a vigilant watch on the children and which has led them to all work no play. Students have started facing many health issues such as major depressive disorders, suicidal tendencies, bi polar disorders which has hampered their performances and has forced them to remain in their own respective shells. They are not able to open up their feelings with parents, teachers and tutors. They remain in their own world and the competition around them kills their performance.
The ability to deal with the stress can mean the difference between the success and the failure in the work. Stress is not always bad, stress if felt in comfort zone of the person it can help the individual to meet new challenges in the work place. It keeps us on the toes during the presentation or alert to prevent accidents or costly mistakes at work. But in today’s hectic world long tiring hours, tight deadlines and increasing demands leaves the person worried, uncertain and overwhelmed by the stress. When stress exceeds our comfort zone area it stops being helpful and start causing major damage to our mind and body as well as to our job satisfaction, but no matter what we do for a living, how stressful our job is, there are plenty of things that can reduced overall stress level and regain our sense of control on the work.
Coping tips
Sharing our thoughts and feelings with another person can help reduce stress. Developing friendships with co workers can also help in reducing stress. Meet new people with common interest by taking a class joining yoga dance, gym as exercise also helps.
Staying at one place brings boredom. Bringing change in our environment brings change in us. Eating small and frequent meals maintains the level of blood sugar, keeping us energetic and focused.
Sleep is like a morphine induced in the system helps us to relax rejuvenate and come back with a stronger, energetic, focussed approach to the same old problem.
Create a balanced schedule all work and no play is a recipe of burn out. Find a balance between a work and family life. Try to be punctual, leave early for work, plan your day this will help you to be reorganised.
Instead of having a goal which is unapproachable, inaccessible, unmanageable we should plan to have small approachable goals. This helps in retaining confidence and keeps us motivated.
It is not late to take a help if you are feeling stressful degenerated, nervous breakdown, impatient, anxiety attacks, panic attacks not having enough sleep, eating too much food, eating less food it’s better to take a help from a counselor and understands your symptoms and try to cope with it go for the counselling sessions understands your behaviour deal with your shortcomings and give your best shot at your work.
The writer is Anuja Kapur, Criminal Psychologist & Socialist