Some measures help relieve psychological stress

Psychological stress or stress is the state of the body's response to stressors - or the correlation between the stimulus and the body's response. Under normal conditions, stress is a psychological, biological and behavioral adaptive response.

Sports play - a way to relieve psychological stress (Photo: ste-anne-rugby) Stress places the subject in the process of adjusting to the surrounding environment, giving the body a new balance after suffering from impact of the environment. When the individual's response to the stress factor is inadequate, irrelevant, new balance is not created, then the function of the body will more or less be disturbed, the physical and psychological diseases , behavior may appear, causing acute or prolonged pathological stress.

Some common stresses

Family stress : Marriage, childbirth, parenting, plans for the future, social events brought home . are problems that can arise stress. Stress easily spreads from one member to another member of the family. The most stressed people are children. If not controlled stress can break the family.

Social stress: Living environment, population density, finance, information explosion, career change, education, changing the value system and traditional practices . Those factors will increase anxiety, depression also increases.

Labor stress : Due to the labor process created as working conditions, complex work, overload of workload or overload of capacity, related to decision making and responsibility, consideration, promotion, organizational principles of agencies and units .

In response to labor stress, the following principles must be followed:

Maintain good health, accept yourself with everything you have, maintain close friendships, perform meaningful work, conduct creative activities outside the workplace , exercise regularly.

What measures to overcome stress situations?

Lifestyle adjustment method: Patients who do not know how to use time appropriately will be difficult to adapt to stressful situations, need to make them aware of the benefits of increasing muscle resistance harmonious, balanced use of time to relax, play sports and time for work, career. Eating habits should also be appropriate, avoiding excessive body weight gain.

Affirm yourself : Attitudes that affirm themselves will be appropriate to stress situations and help patients master the emotions, passive and hostile attitudes that often cause irrelevant and excessive reactions. . Practice for patients to deal with stressful situations, by introducing them into stressful situations with increasing intensity and changing their role from patients to treatment participants.

Cognitive therapy : The goal of therapy is to adjust to different perceptions to help patients progress in how to handle information before a stressful situation, so that their adaptation process is better. Thanks to this better adaptability, the subject strengthens his coping ability with stressful situations.

Body approach : One of the most important manifestations of physical stress is physical neurological disorders and muscle stress. Body therapies are primarily intended to treat these two disorders.

- Schultz's self-training exercise : The patient is lying down, focusing on thinking about the parts of the body that are relaxed. The instructions are obsessive statements for patients to practice and have feelings like: the right hand gets hot, the right leg is very heavy or the heart beats slowly, very slowly . Physicians can guide patients through tape audio, video recording .

Patients will have the ability to relax themselves after many months of regular exercise (at least once a week of training). This technique is indicated for patients with moderate or self-obsession. The wake-up process will help them practice and achieve a moderate relaxation result.

- gradual muscle relaxation therapy : The purpose of therapy is to make the subject get a relaxation in which the subject is mastered and the relaxation gradually appears regularly, helping The body adapts better to stressful situations.

- Biomagnetic effect therapy : The means of measuring the body's biological index such as electromyography, skin temperature . will inform the patient about the physiological state of the body. This information allows patients to learn how to control and regulate physiological processes in a way that responds better to stressful situations.

Drug therapy : Drug therapy is used only when the body's ability to respond is no longer appropriate, meaning when there are pathological stress manifestations. In addition, this method is also used to contribute to restoring the adaptability of the subject, and to mitigate stress disorders. Treatment of stress with drugs is often indicated and combined with psychotherapy.

Common drugs used as magnesium supplements, calcium, vitamins, glucocorticoids; Drugs that affect the central nervous system, such as antidepressants, brain maintenance drugs . The main drugs have peripheral effects such as beta-blockers, some other specific drugs. All these medications must be examined and appointed by the physician when used.

According to Assoc. Cao Tien Duc (Military Medical Academy - 103 Military Hospital)