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Common to all
new and unfamiliar experiences is the symptom of
'stress'. 'Healthy' stress is a normal and necessary response to life challenging experiences and may be described as residing in your mind or in your body or both. However, at times we cannot get to grips with the challenges we face and this is when we move from 'stressed' to 'distressed'. Work stress and financial worries can be especially disabling if we become distressed rather than stressed/stretched/challenged. Distress may be chronic (you don't know yourself any other way) or temporary (a disruption to your usual self). It may be experienced specifically (in response to a particular person, time, place or event) or generally (all the time and everywhere with everyone). We may experience distress as we struggle to control our emotional responses to world events, grief, relationships, divorce, redundancy, moving, menopause, older age, illness, surgery, disability, convalescence, parenting, caring for family and pets and so on. Life events may be experienced as both stressing and distressing at different times. |
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