Stress Management

Are you finding it hard to relax? Are you also experiencing emotions like anxiety, irritability or moodiness? Perhaps you may find it difficult to concentrate, experience headaches or body pains, have trouble sleeping or have stomach complaints? Has your appetite changed or are you smoking or drinking alcohol more? If so you might be experiencing chronic stress.

While every single person on the planet experiences it, everyone’s experience of stress is unique.  Individuals may not only experience stress different physically (e.g., one person may have daily headaches while another just loses their appetite), individuals also experience different stressors, as well as having their own particular ways of coping to the stressors. Stressors can take many forms and can include personal and family relationships, work issues, financial problems, and chronic health problems. For young people academic pressure and bullying are often sources of stress. Sometimes everyday life activities (e.g., long commutes to work in traffic or juggling multiple responsibilities) can lead to cumulative stress where individuals are faced with constant pressure throughout the day where stress levels rise and stay high not letting them to recover.

Stress can be mistaken for anxiety and being stressed often leads to feelings of anxiety. Symptoms like poor sleep, high blood pressure, muscle tension, and excess worry overlap. The difference between the two is stress normally comes from external events while anxiety comes from internal reactions to stress. Stress often goes away once the stressor is removed but anxiety may persist even after the original stressor is gone.

J.B Therapy can assist individuals experiencing harmful stress with evidenced-based treatments that help reduce stress levels. If stressors themselves cannot be resolved through problem-solving; strategies for coping with stress can be learnt to better manage challenging life experiences.