How can we manage stress?

[Aliciaworld]

Stress is the way your body response to a demanding situation, it is a natural response that enables you to deal with challenging or dangerous situations. It can be good or bad as certain amount of stress can help you to reach your goals or to perform better, eg during an exam, a job interview, or a sporting event. While prolonged, extreme, or chronic stress can harm you as it can change your behavior, including the way you treat others, it can lead to substance abuse and other unhealthy means of coping. It may also lead to depression, burnout, or thoughts of suicide etc

Many situations can actually results to stress, it can be as a result of divorce,  death of a loved one, caring for a sick person, being abused which can be physical, emotional or sexual, serious accident etc

To help us cope with stress, you need to think about your physical health, the way you interact with others, and your goals and priorities in life​—that is, what you consider to be truly important. You should try to live one day at a time which helps to prevent anxiety about the next day and when you are less anxious, the less stressed you'll be, another important thing is to stop thinking over things that are not within your control-do the ones you can do and leave the rest to God,  make out time to relax, adequate sleep is a necessity, ensure good health by regular exercise and eating a heathy diet, set out your priorities in order of importance and take it one at a time at your own space, do not over work yourself...

[Iamgoat]

To help us cope with stress, you need to think about your physical health, the way you interact with others, and your goals and priorities in life​—that is, what you consider to be truly important. You should try to live one day at a time which helps to prevent anxiety about the next day and when you are less anxious, the less stressed you'll be, another important thing is to stop thinking over things that are not within your control-do the ones you can do and leave the rest to God,  make out time to relax, adequate sleep is a necessity, ensure good health by regular exercise and eating a heathy diet, set out your priorities in order of importance and take it one at a time at your own space, do not over work yourself...

We've also oftentimes neglected stress which comes from lack of rest due to one's occupation. There are lot of people are currently undergoing critical health conditions due to a very long time neglected health challenges associated to work-related stress. The reason why this often becomes a major challenge especially when most of your job is more of a brain work than a bodywork is, you tend to take it for granted since it does not physically affects you or your body. You are more comfortable with the mental health issues than the physical one because the mental health issues might not manifest in you easily when it comes to the physical condition unlike the physical job such as laborers job etc. It has been put out there several times, how many remote workers find it extremely difficult to step away from work leading to constant on-the-clock feels and as a result leads to lack of unwinding and accumulated stress. As remote workers, when the pressures are on the high side and you do not find a time to rest, it can even lead to you having nightmares of the tasks. I've experienced it myself.