Join the biggest annual online Summit on Stress Management organized by Global Youth Mental Health Awareness (GYMHA), Australia


By Dr. David David

Have you ever wondered how stress interferes with our lives and damages our health? Take a look at this scenario; you’re sitting in traffic, late for an important meeting, watching the seconds tick away. Your heart races, your breath quickens, and your muscles ready for action. This response was designed to protect your body in an emergency by preparing you to react quickly. But when the stress response keeps firing, day after day, it could put your health at serious risk.

There is no doubt you'd have stress in your life – we all do; it's normal. One of the best things you can do for your health is “manage” that stress, even when you can’t control its source.

Some stress can be good. It can be a challenge that keeps us alert, motivated, and ready to avoid danger. But too much stress can make us sick. And it can bring on or worsen certain symptoms or diseases.
If you're constantly under stress, you can have physical symptoms, such as headaches, an upset stomach, high blood pressure, chest pain, and problems with sex and sleep.

Stress can also lead to emotional problems, depression, panic attacks, or other forms of anxiety and worry.
It's not just the stress itself that's the problem. It's how you respond to it. For instance, if you smoke, use drugs, overeat, gamble, spend too much, or have risky sex, that's going to cause more problems.

Stress is a natural, physical, and mental reaction to life experiences. Everyone expresses stress from time to time. Anything from everyday responsibilities like work and family to serious life events such as a new diagnosis, war, or the death of a loved one can trigger stress. For immediate, short-term situations, stress can be beneficial to your health. It can help you cope with potentially serious situations. Your body responds to stress by releasing hormones that increase your heart and breathing rates and ready your muscles to respond.
Yet if your stress response doesn’t stop firing, and these stress levels stay elevated far longer than is necessary for survival, it can take a toll on your health. Chronic stress can cause a variety of symptoms and affect your overall well-being. Symptoms of chronic stress include: irritability, anxiety, depression, headaches, and insomnia.

Staying away from major stress is easier said than done, but there are some tactics you can look into. These vary from person to person.
The key is increasing relaxation, so whatever helps you relax could work well. Regular exercise is never bad, and some people combine this with meditation during activities like yoga or Pilates. Others just read a book or watch their favorite television programs, and others might enjoy the outdoors.

Just as important here is eliminating as many of the unnecessary causes of your body’s stress as you can. Certain bouts of stress can’t be avoided, but you can identify the high-stress parts of your life that you can afford to cut out. For some people, this might be a relationship with a volatile friend or family member. Only you can identify these areas for yourself, so be as honest with yourself as possible.
To be on the safe side, you must learn how to manage stress. Let the experts and professionally trained stress managers guide you. Join the upcoming annual online Summit on Stress Management - The Stress Management Revolutions Summit 2021, organized by Global Youth Mental Health Awareness (GYMHA), Australia.

You have to be in this summit to benefit from the world’s most renowned humanitarians, psychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, allied health practitioners; political leaders, community leaders, youth activists, artists, and researchers who will come together and openly share insights to improve the mental health of all participants.

Date: August 28 & 29 (Sat, Sun), 2021.
Time: 7pm AEST
Format: Online, over Zoom.
Fee: FREE pass for all sessions.

All participants will have a clear roadmap to recognize stress and to create conducive habits and environments.
For registration, please click on the link below:
https://free-smr-2021.eventbrite.com.au
OR
inbox jude@gymha.org