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Kelli Bonifer: Lessen stress by learning to control it By Kelli Bonifer, Adair Co. Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences Everyone knows how stress feels. Stress makes it difficult to meet the challenges associated with everyday life. Daily, people deal with stress from meeting deadlines, appointments and balancing home and work schedules. Coupled with everyday issues, life changing events such as a death in the family, moving, career change or family problems can cause additional stress. The human body can take a certain amount of stress, but the level varies with each individual. It's important for you to be in tune with your body and realize when the stresses in your life are reaching uncontrollable levels and leading to distress. Distress can cause you to become ill, injured or depressed. It is impossible for you to control all the stresses in your life, but fortunately, you can control or lessen many of the common stressors to prevent distress. The process for gaining control over stress includes knowing the signs and symptoms of distress, identifying contributing factors, developing ways to manage contributing factors and carrying out a plan to minimize stress. Stress can be difficult for some to diagnose because there are many signs and symptoms which can be indicators of other health issues. Signs and symptoms associated with stress can affect the mental, behavioral, emotional, spiritual or physical aspects of your life and run the gamut from inability to concentrate to loneliness or fatigue. You should step back and examine your life to determine the events and situations that could be contributing to stress. Issues such as financial difficulty, divorce or separation between family members, changes at work, loss of friends and medical problems in the family can all be contributing factors. Once contributing factors are determined, you along with friends and family should brainstorm ways to prevent the stress associated with the factors from occurring. It could be something as simple as making sure you get enough sleep at night, or it could be a more complicated change, such as refocusing your priorities. After determining ways to limit stress, you must then implement changes in your life. Set goals for implementation. Implementation can be immediate or over a period of time, whichever is the most comfortable for you. Developing a network of support can also help. Determine a time to reevaluate stresses and celebrate any progress you make. Adair County Office, 409 Fairground ST, PO BOX 309, Columbia, KY 42728-0309. Phone: (270) 384-2317 Fax: (270) 384-9167Email: DL_CES_ADAIR@EMAIL.UKY.EDU. The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service's publication, "Calming the Storm: Process for Gaining Control over Stress" contains more detailed information on stress management. For more a copy of the publication or for more information on stress management resources available in your community, contact the Adair County Cooperative Extension Service. Educational programs of the Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, sex, religion, disability or national origin. This story was posted on 2008-09-02 08:12:51
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