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Top things that you can do to avoid stress

Stress is a part of daily life

Everyone goes through stress. It is important to deal with it in the right manner. How you cope with stress is very important. Also, let us not forget that stress can cause many health issues when not dealt with properly. Awareness about dealing with stress in the right manner is very important. GS Super Speciality Hospital, the best hospital in Ghaziabad, takes the initiative to raise awareness about stress coping mechanisms to help you deal with stress in the right manner.

Before we hop, skip, and jump into the topic of the top things that you can do to avoid stress, let's take a sneak peek into what exactly is stress, how it can affect your overall well-being, and why dealing with stress in the right manner is important in life.

All you need to know about stress

Stress is known as tension which comes up in daily life due to everyday problems, demands, and pressures at work and personal life. When you get stressed out, the body releases cortisol hormone which helps in fight and flight response. This allows you to deal with stress in the right manner.

Is stress normal?

Some amount of stress can be considered very important in life which helps you to give your best. For e.g. getting anxious before an important meeting, presentation, or exam. This allows the body to release a cortisol hormone which stimulates extra energy to focus and concentrate to win over the situation. So, stress is considered normal in life and it is important to deal with it the right way. This is also considered as your in-built fight response which allows you to deal with stress positively.

There is another negative aspect to stress which is termed chronic stress. Let's explore it in the next part of the article.

What is chronic stress?

Recurrent stressful situations in life can make it problematic to deal with. Also, if you lack the fight response to face stress, you might end up running away from stress which is termed flight response. This may result in a chronic build-up of stress and high levels of cortisol (stress hormones) causing major health-related issues.

Types of stress

The different types of stress are as follows-

Positive stress

A boost of adrenaline rush is very important at times which allows you to stay positive and deal with stress to come out as a winner. This helps release happy motivational hormones which helps you feel great about yourself. This is also called eustress which is beneficial for mind and body. Examples of positive stress are facing challenges at work which helps you perform better in life and boosts your energy levels. Achieving goals to lose weight can be a great way to motivate yourself.

Negative stress

Stress is considered negative when you are unable to deal with it. This is called distress. Some of the negative stressors in life are relationship problems, unemployment, long-term sickness, or injury which creates a sense of worthlessness and hopelessness. This kind of stress can cause health-related issues. Stress is part and parcel of everyone’s life, however, it can be managed well. Let me help you explore the top things which you can do to avoid stress in the next part of the article.

Health problems due to stress

Chronic build of stress can cause many health issues which are as follows-

Obesity

Endocrinology problems like thyroid disorders

Tension headaches and migraines due to stress

Cardiovascular problems such as blood pressure

Sleep issues like insomnia

Mental health problems like depression and anxiety

Memory problems like difficulty to focus and concentrate

Weakened immune system with fatigue and tiredness

Stress-induced body pain like myalgia and arthralgia

Autoimmune disorders like SLE, ankylosing spondylitis

GIT issues such as indigestion and acidity

Premature aging

Warning signals of stress

The 7 warning signals of stress are as follows-

Frequent crying spells with feelings of hopelessness

Frequent bursts of anger over petty things

Eating disorders such as binge eating or difficulty eating

Changes in weight

Always feeling low, tired, and weak

Loss of interest in daily activities

Avoiding family and friends

Top 9 things to avoid stress

Here are the top 9 things to avoid stress in the right manner.

1.  Maintain a healthy balance in life in personal and work life

Maintaining a healthy balance in life is very important. This will help you stay relaxed and attain your goal successfully. Take out time for all your daily tasks and chores by allocating a schedule for yourself. Make sure to enjoy every moment of life to make the most out of it.

2.  Always stay positive

Look at the positive aspect of stress to boost your energy in the right direction. An adrenaline rush can help you to perform better. This allows you to know more about skill sets and helps achieve success as well. With time, you will be more confident in life.

3.  Keep yourself occupied at work

Stay occupied and keep going. Learning to deal with stress is extremely important in life. An empty mind is a devil’s workshop. It is important to stay occupied at work to give your best. This allows you to deal with stress naturally without getting interfered with by any type of problems in life.

4.  Take out some ME-TIME to relax and de-stress

Although staying occupied is the best way to deal with stress, it is important to take regular breaks. You must also go on vacation and spend some ME-TIME with coffee in the evening to relax and de-stress.

5.  Schedule your day and get organized

Scheduling your day is very important. It is essential to take your regular breaks in between as you schedule your day. Plan out and stick to the plan to make it successful at the end of the day. This will help you deal with stress as it comes your way.

6.  Stay active

Exercising is a great way to stay active. Sweating out helps release happy hormones or endorphins which help you deal with stress. Happy hormones help keep stress at bay and allow you to stay motivated to work.

7.  Self-care is very important

Looking good can help you feel good and positive. Self-care is a must that allows grooming and loving yourself. This also releases endorphins and happy hormones which help you to stay positive.

8.  Reach out for help from friends and family members

If you think that you are unable to deal with stress, you can reach out to your loved ones for support. Talking to someone and venting out your emotions can help you reduce stress levels.

9.   Stress management under medical care

If you are unable to manage stress with lifestyle changes, it is important to get started with stress management techniques under the professional care of a doctor and hospital to deal with stress at the earliest and prevent any health issues or complications.

A Note from GS Super Speciality Hospital

GS Super Hospital, Delhi NCR completely understands the patients who come to them for any kind of treatment whether acute or chronic. The professional doctors and dedicated staff of this super specialty hospital work towards relaxing the patient during treatment helping to stay away from stress and recover at a faster pace. With such positive values, services, and protocols, GS Hospital ranks among the top 10 private hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, to provide medical care at their best. It is considered as the best hospital in Ghaziabad with a team who believes in target-specific treatment and holistic wellness for patients with the best hospital services.

Conclusion

You cannot avoid stress or run away from stress. But you can set goals to keep your stress levels low which will help you deal in a better way with stress, and handle bigger challenges positively allowing you to win over the situation.

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What long Covid can tell us about post-infectious conditions

In the early months of 2020 as Covid swept the world, I was a science writer with a mandate to tell the human stories of the pandemic. I started reaching out to patients living through the aftermath of Covid, people who got sick and stayed sick. As leaders were telling the public that those infected with the virus would recover within a couple of weeks, I met dozens of survivors whose bodies gave…

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Louis Pasteur first discovered the rabies vaccine in 1885. He was a French chemist and microbiologist. Rabies is a viral disease. If an animal infected with rabies bites a human, it can spread to humans. Rabies is transmitted to humans by infected animals such as dogs, wolves, bats, etc. To know more facts about the rabies vaccine visit here: https://hi.quora.com/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%AA-%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF-%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87/answers/388976842

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I’ve been sick for such a long time my body atrophied so badly. Not just my body but my mind. Because I was used to that limit. Too much exercise would shoot me into brain fog and exhaustion. It was terrifying trying to expand that boundary because I remembered days where I sobbed trying to walk to the bathroom. I know I’m not sick anymore but my body isn’t so sure.

But Wyvern really was the boot camp I needed to get up constantly and consistently. I went to bed aching every night and afraid I was at my limit but I’d wake up and be functional the next day.

Losing him was devastating but I’m so committed not to lose the progress he helped me make. I’ve been going on walks every day, I finally got to being able to add my mini workout back in.

My betrothed and I are going to the redwoods next week and I’m actually gonna be able to walk and play. It’s such an enormous gift he gave me.

[hellyeahsickaf]

"My body hates me" "Ugh I hate my lousy ass body always holding me back" "I'd hang out but my stupid body's too fucked up to let me" I know it feels like your body's working against you but it isn't- it's doing its best to protect you and keep you alive

If your chronic illness is post-viral and/or autoimmune your body's doing everything it can to fight a constant battle against what it believes to be a threat. Sometimes it develops because an infectious disease has interfered with the functions your body carries out. And some illnesses develop symptomatically as a survival response because your cortisol production indicates that constant fight or flight isn't working so it forces a freeze response. If you're in pain, fatigued, have brain fog, etc, you can't exert yourself and are forced to conserve your energy. That way you don't overdo things and possibly compromise your survival. It feels like a lousy survival response, it really sucks, but it's still an indicator that your body's doing its best

You can hate your symptoms and vent about how much they suck, I know they truly suck balls and some days I just wanna scream and break things while I'm in bed struggling to keep my eyes open. Just don't forget that your body doesn't "hate" you and you should treat it kindly. Many symptoms like pain are there to tell your brain something's threatening it- even if your nerves are misinterpreting sensations like strong temperatures and sending pain signals to your brain. Billions of little cells and microorganisms are working 24/7 to keep you going. Those little guys carry out so many functions and none of them are for the sole purpose of making your life harder. It always comes back to your body trying to survive

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hi! sorry to be a bother, but I had a question about avian influenza. you may or may not have seen the farmer on tiktok/twitter who lost almost all the birds on her farm to bird flu. she said that it was brought by wild geese that she couldn't prevent from flying over her farm, and so there was nothing she could do. I was wondering, is that true? I know vaccination isn't really an option, but when bird flu was going around earlier this year, a lot of the backyard chicken ppl I follow were providing alternate, indoor/covered shelter + food, presumably for that exact reason.

is that something this farmer could've feasibly done? iirc she said she had around 50 various birds (chickens, ducks, two? swans and also emus). obviously that's a lot more than a handful of chickens. I thought it sounded weird that she said there was nothing she could do, but I'm certainly not a farmer or even a hobbyist.

thanks for your time!

i am familiar with the tweets. they said Egyptian geese were coming onto their property. you cant do much about birds flying over But

if they knew about HPAI and knew wild waterfowl were coming onto their property and DIDNT fence off the place they were visiting, or (even better. really they should have done this one) enclose all poultry in cages/a barn/runs with tarps to prevent droppings from getting in/etc. yes I would consider their actions negligent. there are things you can implement to decrease the chances of your poultry coming in contact with wild birds/HPAI. heres a pdf on how to protect your poultry from HPAI. im not even going to get into their handling AFTER they confirmed their birds had HPAI.

this is not directed at anon, but please never send me anything about the emu woman again 🙏

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As someone who has post-viral disabilities/conditions, it absolutely INFURIATES me that, despite a mass rise in post-viral disabilities/conditions (aka long-covid), IT’S STILL NOT BEING RESEARCHED.

I had a virus in May 2016 (end of 8th grade), the symptoms of which (plus more as time went on) never went away. I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2017, followed by POTS, fibromyalgia, CFS/ME, chronic pain, and more - none of which have a cure. (There are also several conditions that I’ve researched and am almost certain I have as a result of that virus over half a decade ago, but I’m still waiting to get appointments with those specialists.) Since being diagnosed, I have done various treatments/medications, had many appointments with specialists & physical therapists, and have done basically all I can to get better.

Now it’s 2022. It’s been 6 years since the virus and 5 years since the first diagnosis. Can I do more than I could in 2017? Absolutely! I don’t want to say that it will never get better, because it does - just slowly (and at a different pace for everyone). But I’m still NOWHERE near where I was before 2016, certainly not even close to what I might have been able to do now if the virus hadn’t happened. I had to switch to homeschool (away from my friends, though better for my physical and mental health) for 10th-12th grade. Last summer, I rode a bike for the first time since 2016, and I was still in pain afterwards. I’m finally at a place where I can start doing the things I used to be able to do or have missed out on (ex: making my own lunch, learning to drive, going to college), but it’s a very delicate balance. I’m at a place where some of these things are finally in sight (I won’t say in reach yet), and it’s frustrating to desperately want to do them and know I’m so close to being able to, but I still have to be really careful.

Because of my constellation of conditions, it has been incredibly difficult to improve my health. For example: one of the best ways to treat POTS is by exercising, but exercising also unfortunately triggers CFS/ME flare ups (due to post-exertional malaise), which in turn triggers chronic pain, etc. The worst part is that it’s nearly impossible to tell when you’ve overdone it in the moment, which means that after doing more rigorous exercise, I have to make sure I don’t schedule anything for the next 2-3 days in case of a flare up. I know I’m not the only one with complicated, contradictory, incredibly difficult co-morbidities, which is one reason why it takes so long to even start healing post-virus.

I’m upset that there are SO MANY people with long-covid that are receiving the same treatment myself and others have received in terms of our post-viral illnesses. I was hopeful that, even though the last thing I wanted was more people having to go through what I’ve been going through for 6 years, this rise in post-viral cases would have pushed more research into why it happens and how to cure (or at least better treat) the most common disabilities/conditions that it results in. 

Instead, like other post-viral illnesses, we’ve continued to see small, underfunded groups research the resulting individual conditions (CFS/ME, POTS, etc) without the funding to come together to research the co-morbidities as a whole, while the majority of the population (including medical professionals, news sources, the general population, etc) at best completely ignore and at worst utterly deny the existence of long-covid.

And I’m so tired.

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Yale School of Public Health infographic on COVID-19 affects the immune system

@iamSandeepR:

Yale says C19 leaves a lasting impact on the immune system altering it, the risk of LongCovid goes up with each re-infection & the risk of an autoimmune immune condition also nearly doubles after an infection. Viral reservoirs and viral persistence are present. Immune dysregulation happens and is real. It also re-activates other dormant viruses, children also become more vulnerable to certain other infections. Research done by @VirusesImmunity Dr. Iwasaki & team. The infographic also adds that there is so much not known yet about other lasting impacts esp. if altered immune system function causes an increase in other infectious diseases, neurodegenerative diseases & cancer. Bottom line is, avoid SARS-2 / C19 re-infections, clean the air, wear a respirator indoors esp. when wastewater shows an uptick and reduce non-essential indoor activities. C19 re-infection is bad, however mild or symptomatic the acute phase is.

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Today I worked on:

Buried: 527 words -- forced myself to finish the chapter.

Ghost on the Couch: 227 words -- I need to push myself to finish this too because I'm literally on the last chapter and I'm SO CLOSE.

Uploaded a new Tumblr exclusive fic.

I very suddenly have to move so I've been busy packing and also my cats just keep getting sick with this weird virus that just keeps coming back and ugh. But I really really do want to get back to writing regularly someday.