Steps to deal with stress - Minding Your Head

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51 Helping others continued You can: • get the satisfaction of feeling useful • brush up on your skills and learn new ones • get out and meet new people Volunteers often go on to find paid work in the same kind of role. Further help Self-help Self-help books, websites and leaflets can help you take control. Ask at your local library and search online. Stress management classes Ask your doctor or at your local community centre. Volunteering won’t affect your Job Seeker’s Allowance or Incapacity Benefit, go to www.volunteersnow.co.uk or www.cvni.org for more information on conservation volunteers. See your doctor about stress and mood problems The more information you give, the better they’ll be able to help you: • Be clear you think you’re having problems with stress and mood • Say how you feel and how it’s affecting your day-to-day life, work and relationships
• Tell them about any physical symptoms - aches, pains, stomach upsets, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much • Tell them about any troubling thoughts, especially if you’ve been thinking about death or taking your own life • Tell them about any difficult situations - it’s helpful if your doctor understands what’s going on in your life Making a list of what you want to say is useful - or tell a trusted friend and take them with you. Talking treatments Talking treatments, such as Beating the blues (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT), help people work through and change the way they think and react. Beating the blues is an effective treatment for mild to moderate depression, anxiety and panic attacks. Ask your doctor about Beating the blues or visit www.mindingyourhead.info for further information. Counselling Counselling helps people work through their thoughts, feelings and reactions. For more information, go to www.counselling-directory.org.uk to find a service near you. Need to talk? Call Lifeline on 0808 808 8000 if you are in distress or despair or Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 and at jo@samaritans.org Take action now 52
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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 and 22: Positive thinking Sometimes we find
Page 23 and 24: Working on your problems Taking ste
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
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Page 55 and 56: Notes Take action now 54

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