The pace of modern life and conditions in many areas of employment are such that a person is constantly exposed to stress. If you do not know how to cope with them and level their negative impact, the likelihood of depression, anxiety and anxiety increases. And they, in turn, are fraught with more serious psychological disorders. But how to determine your state of psychological health?
If you are constantly irritable, anxious or sleep badly, constantly feel dissatisfied or angry, dependent on sudden mood swings, this may indicate a stressful state and its negative impact on your body. The first thing you should do in such a situation is to consult a specialist. You should also familiarize yourself with some recommendations to help you maintain psychological health and balance.
Most of us are familiar with the word stress tolerance from lists of required qualities from job advertisements. This requirement is understood as the ability to work effectively in tense situations, to concentrate and endure significant intellectual, volitional and emotional strain without harm to oneself and one’s activities.
Let us turn to popular methods illustrating this problem.
The famous writer, psychologist and educator Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” offers readers the following advice:
Your worries should be focused only on today, as we cannot accurately predict the future or change the past.
“Keep busy. A person suffering from anxiety must completely forget himself in work, or he will dry up with despair.”
“Do not allow yourself to be upset over trifles that should be despised and forgotten. Remember that “life is too short to waste it on trifles.”
” Examine the facts. Ask yourself: “What are the odds, by the law of large numbers, that the event I’m worried about will ever happen?”
“Deal with the inevitable.”
