Stressed Out! Stress, Mental Health, and Our Sense of Control
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- Stressed Out! Stress, Mental Health, and Our Sense of Control
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Stressed Out! Stress, Mental Health, and Our Sense of Control
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." — William James
Ah, stress. The dirty "s" word can disrupt our mental health and well-being (The Connection Between Stress and Mental Illness). How stressed we feel is related to how much control we feel in our lives. Knowing what stress does to us and identifying where we're feeling out of control gives us the power of choice necessary for decreasing stress and improving mental health.
Stress can get to people physically, emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally. Knowing that you don't feel well because you're stressed isn't quite helpful in beating stress. Get specific. Pinpoint how you're feeling stress in your life. Getting specific will allow you to choose purposeful actions to counter the negative effects of stress (Overwhelmed By Stress and Anxiety? How To Deal With It).
To reduce stress's impact and optimize mental health, focus, too, on your own sense of power and control in your life. What's bothering you the most right now? Determining this will allow you to choose your thoughts about what's happening as well as actions you can take to deal with it. When we humans gain a sense of control over ourselves and our lives by identifying choices we have, we can feel so empowered that our sense of stress decreases and mental health increases.
Related Articles Dealing with Stress, Mental Health, and Control
- The Different Kinds of Stress
- Separating Life Stress from Mental Health Relapse
- Helping Teenagers with Stress
- Self-Help Stress Management
- Online Stress Test
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: What have you found to be helpful in reducing stress and regaining a sense of control in your life? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Reducing Anxiety at Family Gatherings
- Tips on Bipolar Disorder and Planning
- When to Get Rid of Social Media Relationships
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Selfies Helped My Damaged Body Image
- Teen Mental Health Stigma vs Fact
- PTSD Recovery: Dealing With the Freeze Response
- How to Confront an Animal Hoarder
- How To Remain Creative with Anxiety
- Treating Physical Pain in Bipolar – Neuropathic Pain
- What To Do If Schizophrenia’s Suicidal Feelings Hit
- How Healing Resentments Improves Sobriety
- The Difference Between Anxiety and Stress
- How Radical Acceptance Can Help Your Self-Esteem
- Distress Tolerance Is Important for Depression
- Destigmatizing Self-Diagnosis of Mental Illness
- Mental Illness and Marriage: The Cost of Making It Work
- The Anxious Empath: Anxiety And Other People’s Feelings
- Why We Believe Eating Disorder Lies
- Transform Triggering Emotions Because You’d Rather Be Happy
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blog homepage for the latest posts.
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APA Reference
Peterson, T.
(2016, June 3). Stressed Out! Stress, Mental Health, and Our Sense of Control, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 21 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/stressed-out-stress-mental-health-and-our-sense-of-control
