Today, we will be guiding you on “mental well-being matters”  We will be focusing on how to manage stress and anxiety in the fast-paced world.

In the latest scientific studies about stress and anxiety at Ohio State University in the United States of America, on January 12, 2024. Researchers were able to deduce and suggest that proper stress management could reduce or improve biological health outcomes of stress. As we were updated By The Science Daily Website.

This shows how important it is when talking about mental well-being matters.

Let’s begin the body stress management journey by first explaining in detail what stress and anxiety are all about and how it usually happens in people’s lives.

Let’s quickly get started!

Defining Stress & Anxiety In Mental Well-Being Matters.

What is Stress?

Stress is any emotional or physical pressure that triggers or makes someone uncomfortable in a frustrated or depressed pattern.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety on the other hand can be defined as a displeasing state of mental nervousness about some uncertainties.

How Do You Relate Stress and Anxiety?

Why is it that every topic about stress always goes together with anxiety? Just like today’s topic,  “mental well-being matters” managing stress and anxiety in a fast-paced world.

Now, let’s try to connect stress and anxiety together. How and why do the two words relate together? Well, by connecting or relating both words together, one could say that there will be no anxiety without stress. One can also conclude that stress triggers anxiety and a person who successfully removes stress from his or her life indirectly removes anxiety also. So because of this, we will be focusing mostly on the word stress. You may also want to read 5 health and nutrition tips below!

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How Stress Happens

How does stress happen? Is there any internal body mechanism that triggers or controls stress and its related issues in the body? Well, let’s start by first elucidating “how stress happens” Some life activities make us nervous and overwhelmed. We are going to discuss these causes of stress in detail as we walk down the steps.

Whenever we become overwhelmed we will have the feeling that our current situations are totally out of our control. This feeling of uncertainty triggers and activates the body’s stress hormone called cortisol. Cortisol activation will help us in dealing with a stressful situation by increasing the blood sugar level and also by boosting energy production in the body.

Or, in cases when high levels of cortisol are activated in our body, it weakens the body and makes us remove concentration and the great impact of these body reactions will fall on our mental well-being resulting in an overload of body stress. This implies that cortisol as a stress-stimulating body hormone, either helps to reduce stress or causes stress to worsen in the body when the cortisol level is higher or lower than normal.

What Are The Things That Cause Stress?

There are many life activities which tend to trigger stress in the body. Some of these activities can be easily controlled whereas some are hundred percent beyond our control. Some of the causes of stress that we can easily control to reduce our body stress are ceremonial stress like planning for weddings, birthdays, clubs, parties, location changes and more.

Some inevitable causes of body stress are the death of a loved one, sickness of a loved one, personal sickness and more. No matter the causes of stress, the truth is we must find a way to reduce or totally stop our body’s stress. Let’s go down to see how to make it work ignoring whatever the cause may be.

Effect of Stress on The Body

There are many effects of stress on the body. The effects of stress vary from one individual to another and what triggers the stress also affects the effect it will have on the person’s body. Take for instance you found yourself in your elder sister’s house and she left her four kids under your care.

You know kids must be kids. You started shouting from morning to night. Sandra, come out from the fire, Kelly, bring that phone here, Junior, why did you eat your brother’s food? Sure, the effect of your stress here is headache and tiredness. And so on. 

The effect of stress can either be physical stress, mental stress, behavioural issues and biological stress like body inflammation.

Physical Effect of Stress

Headache

Tiredness

Problems with sleeping

Body pains

Decrease or increase in sexual urge

Stomach upset

Abnormal blood pressure

Behavioural Effect of Stress

Addiction

Drug abuse

Feeling to be left alone.

Overreaction

Mental Effect of Stress

Depression

Restlessness

Shortened lifespan

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Ways To Reduce Stress

The topic of mental well-being matters can never be completed without enumerating the ways to reduce and get it properly controlled. There are many ways to control and manage stress in our lives. Depending on the individual dealing with stress. I will give one general advice you can use to conquer stress in your life.

First of all, examine the actual cause of your stress. If you get it right, introduce an impactful action and you will be ninety-nine percent closer to getting it solved. If the cause of stress happens to be beyond your control, kindly let go and move on. That’s the general way to reduce body stress. Other stress control tips can be seen below.

1. Create Personal Boundaries.

Create some personal boundaries by limiting the acceptance of certain things in some situations. Do not be among those people who think it’s a crime to say no to people. Be principled and determined in setting your boundary limit and make sure to maintain it.

Let’s take for instance, you came back from work after a long-distance walk, you wanted to rest your body and someone close to you demanded that you should escort him or her to the market. Be bold enough to say “no” in a polite manner and maintain your stand. You are indirectly fighting to reduce stress in your body and that’s not a crime. What you must know in such a situation is the fact that a true friend will always understand but fake friends will always have something to say which has no impact on your body stress.

2. Spend time with your loved ones

Creating time and spending it with your loved ones is another great way to control our body’s stress. I never said you should spend time with your family members. Instead, spend time with people who love you and are determined to always see you smile. Such a person could be your family member, a neighbour, a friend or even your classmate in school.

3. Practice healthy feeding

You may try to overlook the saying that a hungry man is an angry man right? Please don’t. Show me a hungry man and I will show you how it looks to be angry and stressed up. The saying simply implies that the more you eat healthy and normal, the more you reduce stress and its effect on your body. Eat whenever you feel like eating and eat according to your body’s desire for you to overcome your body’s stress.

4. Self-entertainment is essential.

Is there anything that makes you happy? Use it to entertain and reduce your worries when you feel that you have stressed up. Things like watching videos, especially the funny or comedy part of it, music also helps and many other ways you can possibly keep yourself entertained to boost happiness in your life.

5. Know when to add supplements.

Many vitamins play important roles when it comes to body stress control. So deficiency of these vitamins affects our mental health and stress-coping body tolerance. It’s known that vitamins like magnesium always deplete when one becomes chronically stressed. When this happens, please, get yourself back by taking magnesium as your supplement to control stress.

6. Learn to let go.

You may not be able to control some of the stress-causing situations in your life. For example, you lost a lovely wife after some months of battling lung cancer. Leaving you and your children behind and you are stressed up and filled with anxiety. Her death is inescapable and you don’t have the power to revert it. Please, learn to let go and move on. Understand that life does happen sometimes. Be focused on the children because they are looking up to you. Find happiness in your children and be strong for them, so they won’t end up becoming orphans which will expose them to the worst life suffering.

Another instance where you are required to avoid stress by letting go and moving on is a situation where someone you loved so much breaks your heart by abandoning you on the way. You tried so much to restore the relationship and it didn’t work out. In fact, the more you run to him or her, the more they create more distance. Is not your fault, please. Learn to let go and move on so it doesn’t affect your mental health.

I hope I was able to deliver and cover every of your reading intent regarding the topic, “Mental well-being matters” A detailed approach to managing stress and anxiety in a fast-paced world. Be prepared to start taking positive action as regards to stress and anxiety control. Have you been ignoring and taking body stress and anxiety as nothing but part of life? Please, stop! Remember life is too short to be carelessly shortened. Let’s hear what you think in the comment section.