Blog 4: DEALING WITH STRESS

Every day we meet people who spend most of his time working within these people are health workers who live overwhelmed and anxious to seek perfection in perform the work space neglecting important aspects of the life as the family and the friends. These are situations which often lead to individuals become addicted to their jobs and the same are which usually cause stress.

In Chile 40% of work absence is caused by stress and 30% of medical leave due to cause of this disease.

The stress can be caused by multiple factors that are affecting the person and that are producing a negative reaction in the emotional field of this one, inside the factors we find: the physiological (diseases and injuries of the body), psychological (emotional vulnerability, interpersonal troubled or insufficient relations, frustrating conditions of work or study, etc.), social (social changes in which every epoch brings new challenges to confronting, technological intensive changes that the person cannot integrate, etc.) and environmental (supply denaturalized with industrial toxins, places of work with little safety, catastrophes, etc.)

Some of the symptoms that the stress presents are emotions of anxiety, irritability, fear, fluctuation of the spirit, confusion; thoughts of excessive self-criticism, difficulty to concentrate and to think decisions, worry for the future, excessive fear of the failure; crying, impulsive reactions, sudden treatment to the others, to creak the teeth or to press the jaws; increase of the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs; major predisposition to accidents; increase or decrease of the appetite; cold or sweaty hands, headache, problems of back or neck, disturbances of the dream, stomach discomfort, rough breathing or throbs, between others.

The strategies to confront the stress seek to anticipate or to control the excesses in the demands proceeding from the environment or of us themselves. Some strategies that have tried to be effective, and that they can help you to face situations of many tension are: to relax realizing activities that allow him to renew physics and psychologically, to realize exercises, to support a healthy diet, to organize his time, to try to support realistic expectations and to share his emotions.