What are the symptoms of stress?
Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the demands that life places on us. In small amounts, stress is useful in motivating us to complete a task. However large amounts of stress can lead to symptoms such as feelings of hostility and anger, frustration, lack of tolerance, crying, feeling overwhelmed, depression. Stress can also causes physical symptoms such as stomach ache, headaches, shortness of breath. Excessive stress can be detrimental to your relationships, performance at work and quality of life.
Stress management counselling can help you to understand your own patterns and behaviours around stress, identify stressors and give you strategies and skills to manage the stress in your life.
When should I get help to manage my stress?
Excessive stress can be detrimental to your relationships, performance at work and quality of life. There are many ways you can cope with stress in your life. When you start to feel stress is taking a hold of your life and starting to have a negative impact on your mind, body and spirit, then you know, you need to look for help. It can be helpful to see a psychotherapist to assess the situation, so you can determine what is the best course of action.
Most times the best option is a mixture of psychotherapy and lifestyle changes that can assist you.
Can counselling help with stress management?
Yes. Stress management counselling can help you to understand your own patterns and behaviours around stress, identify stressors and give you strategies and skills to manage the stress in your life.
Types of therapy that can help would be Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic and Humanistic therapy.
Further reading and resources:
https://www2.hse.ie/wellbeing/mental-health/stress.html