Stress
June 23, 2008
The silent killer
Have you ever thought that your little daily worries can slowly accumulate and plan your downfall? Can you imagine that a smiling face can be a mask behind a disintegrating self? Stress related problems are simply growing day by day owing to one’s busy and hectic schedule along with a target-oriented lifestyle. Knowingly or unknowingly, stress enters one’s life and acts as a silent killer to one’s simple happiness and joys until it expands to become a deadly disease. However, contrary to popular belief, stress can not be associated with men only: women too face stress associated with their daily life, their workplace and their family responsibilities.
Stress can show its exstence through different symptoms which include headache, sleep disorders, stomach disorders, depression and anxiety. Moreover, Stress can also act as a catalyst for various other diseases like heart problems, obesity, depression, diarrohea, asthma and others.
While it is widely believed that fight, anger and rage are the common ways by which people react to stress, a research carried out by Shelly Taylor, Ph.D. and her colleagues has complicated the picture. According to her, women react to stress in a different way than men as the former seems to “tend and befriend’ during stress. This implies that during stress, women tend to care more about their children along with finding support from their female friends. This difference in approach has a biological reason attached with it: – while women’s body releases a calming chemical oxytocin during stress, men’s body produce higher levels of testosterone which cause anger and rage.
Women carry higher levels of stress with them and hence they should listen to the signals produced by their bodies to live a healthy existence. The easiest way to handle stress is to relax one’s body and mind. This can be achieved through meditation, yoga and even by deep, calm breathing. Moreover, one should daily take out time for oneself in which the demands of your own body and mind should be taken care of. In addition healthy eating habits and exercise can also help to de-stress oneself. Hence women, often referred to as caretakers of others, should take care of themselves too and should follow stress management techniques to lead a healthy and a happy life.
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