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How Unrelieved Stress Hurts the Body: Increase in Alcohol Consumption
>le drink in an effort to relax and reduce their stress. They feel better - temporarily.
It’s interesting that we actually have a term for when it is socially acceptable to start drinking. It is called “Happy Hour”. That is usually after work, where overstressed and unhappy, unfulfilled workers can go to have a drink and forget their problems.
Of course, “Happy Hour” can be different times for different people. Both of my parents died, from what I believe to be alcohol-related illnesses. Their “Happy Hour” started at 3:00 and continued until they went to bed.
Unfortunately, all the alcohol consumption does is mask the stess. It does’t solve the problem that caused the stress in the first place. It just adds many other, often more severe problems that just increase the stress load.
Just as a side note, I am told that after an Alcolholic’s Anonymous meeting that many of the people are smoking. In a effort to stop drinking, they just change the addiction to something more socially acceptable - but they are still just trying to control the symptom of the stress instead of resolving the problem that is causing the stress!
This blog is for all women who are suffering from Christmas Stress. Christmas is supposed to be and can truly be the most wonderful time of the year. But unfortunately, for many people - especially women - it is not. According to the Stress Level Charts, Christmas has a stress level of 15 out of a possible 100.
There are many reasons for this. If you are already feeling stressed with the every day load of time, money and energy commitments you are trying to balance, the extra demands of Christmas can be truly overwhelming!
What are the extra demands of Christmas?
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Probably the most important step in reducing your stress about a potential natural disaster: flood, fire, earthquake, tsunami, tornado, hurricane, or whatever, is to first identify what it is you are stressing about.
Sounds pretty basic, doesn’t it? But you would be amazed how many people have not done that. Why? Because, as I wrote earlier, when people are in Stress Mode, they are not thinking. They are just reacting. Read the rest of this entry »
Stress Relief From All “Natural Disaster” Threats: How Fear Stops You From Thinking!
Once you have physically prepared for a potential natural disaster, like a flood, earthquake, fire, tsunami, earthquake, tornado, or whatever, then you just have to wait. This is the killer for most people.
Just like my older friend, who sat by the kitchen window, watching the river - day in and day out; people worry about what is going to happen and how it will affect their lives. This is what is so emotionally draining for so many people: not knowing WHEN or even IF! If you know for certain, then you can prepare and get on with your life.
THE GREAT UNKNOWING CAN BE DEVASTATING ! Read the rest of this entry »
Stress Relief From All “Natural Disaster” Threats: Physical Preparation
Although we can be given warning of a potential natural disaster (like a possible flood for those of us in the Fraser Valley), or a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, tsunami, fire, etc. none of us really KNOW when it could or even, IF it will happen.
SO HOW DO WE PREPARE? Read the rest of this entry »
My article is based on what we have been experiencing here with the threat of a flood. However, the information would apply equally well to whatever “Natural Disaster” threat you could be facing: Earthquakes, Tornados, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Fires, etc.
The months of May and June have been pretty stressful for everyone living along the Fraser River of British Columbia, Canada. The snow pack is 70% higher than normal and the Fraser River has not been dredged for many years, so the sand build-up has made the river very shallow.
We were told that it was not a matter of IF we were going to have a flood, but WHEN! Read the rest of this entry »