Steps to deal with stress - Minding Your Head

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21 Dealing with difficult situations The next step in dealing with your stress is to deal with difficult situations that are happening to you right now. • Everyone faces problems or difficult situations in their lives, and those problems can lead to stress • Sometimes situations are outside our control, and we may have to accept we can’t change them • Stress can sometimes make problems seem worse than they are. This section helps to give you the confidence to cope better
Working on your problems Taking steps to deal with your problems will make you feel better able to cope with them. Top tips include • Dividing problems into small bitesized pieces and dealing with them one at a time • Trying to deal with problems as they arise so that they don’t get worse • Prioritising what has to be dealt with now and what can wait Turn to the following pages for some suggestions on common problems: • money worries (page 42) • relationship problems (page 26-27) • unemployment or the threat of redundancy (page 42-43) • difficulties with children or parenting (page 28-29) • problems at work (page 43) • discrimination or unfair treatment (page 43) • family problems (page 43) • the loss of a loved one (page 44) • illness (page 44) • caring for someone who’s ill or disabled (page 44) • domestic abuse (page 44) • crime (page 44) Now might be a good time to try the practical problem solving exercise (page 40-41). Coping better 22
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Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Recognising stress - Being
Page 5 and 6: Problems can pile up. There’s a l
Page 7 and 8: Why ignoring stress doesn’t work
Page 9 and 10: Read the whole booklet through if y
Page 11 and 12: Eating well If we’re stressed, it
Page 13 and 14: During the day • Try not to take
Page 15 and 16: Get out at lunchtime Why not go to
Page 17 and 18: Unhealthy ways to cope People often
Page 19 and 20: Smoking It’s a very widely held m
Page 21: Positive thinking Sometimes we find
Page 25 and 26: Talk about it, write about it You d
Page 27 and 28: • see what other responsibilities
Page 29 and 30: Children and parenting Family life
Page 31 and 32: Anxiety and depression Living with
Page 33 and 34: Thinking about suicide? • If you
Page 35 and 36: It can be helpful to talk to a prof
Page 37 and 38: Paying attention to our breathing c
Page 39 and 40: Relaxation exercise 2 Simple muscle
Page 41 and 42: Problem solving Facing up to proble
Page 43 and 44: When you are deciding what to do ab
Page 45 and 46: Difficulties with children and pare
Page 47 and 48: My problem list Problem Steps I can
Page 49 and 50: WEEK 2 Three things that went well
Page 51 and 52: Helping others Helping others can m
Page 53 and 54: • Tell them about any physical sy
Page 55 and 56: Notes Take action now 54

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