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Ann’s Ramblings
Greetings!
How are you today?
In this world today, it seems like you hear it all the time from nearly every one you know – “I’m SO stressed out!”
As we know pressures cause stress and anxiety, and often time we are ill equipped to deal with those stressors that trigger anxiety and other feelings, which can make us sick. The statistics are staggering.
The National Institute of Mental Health has shown that anxiety disorders are the number one mental health problem among American women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse by men. It said, “One in every eight Americans age 18-54 suffers from an anxiety disorder”. This totals over 19 million people!
According to the research, women suffer from anxiety and stress almost twice as much as men. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in America, surpassing even depression in numbers. It is the most common mental health issue facing adults over 65 years of age. Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. $46.6 billion annually. Anxiety sufferers see an average of five doctors before being successfully diagnosed.
Unfortunately, stress and anxiety go hand in hand. As said, one of the major symptoms of stress is anxiety. It accounts for 80 percent of all illnesses either directly or indirectly.
The fact is stress is more dangerous than we thought.
You have probably heard that it can raise your blood pressure, increasing the likelihood of a stroke in the distant future etc.
Health Psychology magazine reports that chronic stress can interfere with the normal function of the body’s immune system. In addition, studies have proven that stressed individuals have an increased vulnerability to catching an illness and are more susceptible to allergic, autoimmune, or cardiovascular diseases.
Doctors agree that during chronic stress, the functions of the body that are nonessential to survival, such as the digestive and immune systems shut down. “This is why people get sick,” he says. “There are also many occurrences of psychosomatic illness, an illness with an emotional or psychological side to it.”
Furthermore, stress often prompts people to respond in unhealthy ways such as smoking, drinking alcohol, eating poorly, or becoming physically inactive. This damages the body in addition to the wear and tear of the stress itself.
However, stress is a part of daily life and nobody can escape from it. To maintaining our health and well-being and make all the difference, it is really depend on how we react to it.
Understand that pressures occur throughout life and those pressures cause stress. You need to realize that you will never completely get rid of stress in your life, but the things you can do is to learn coping techniques to turn that stress into a healthier situation.
To help you get out from pressure and stress, I highly recommended you read The Secrets. I finished reading it on the weekend and it is an indeed real and powerful book.
It is a new age self-help book on the law of attraction as a groundbreaking and life-changing work, finding validation in its thesis that one’s positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness…
If you are interested in the power of the mind, then The Secrets is yours to use. When you know and accept the secret, you have the secret to everything: unlimited health, abundance, success and joy. Of course, those pressure and stress will go away…
Cheers
Ann
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