Contents:
- Medical Video: there's good and bad stress
- Is that stressful?
- What is positive stress (eustress)?
- What are the characteristics of stress (eustress)?
- Poor stress can be changed to good stress
Medical Video: there's good and bad stress
Have you ever experienced a challenge that made your stomach shake? Like having to do a big project for promotion, looking forward to the birth of the first child, or making a presentation for the final value in front of the lecturerkiller’ Can you imagine what you felt at that time? Are your hands wet with sweat? Your heart beats fast? You are sure nervous. This is called stress.
Is that stressful?
Stress is a process that is felt and responded to by humans about an event. This response can be 'challenging' or 'harmful'.
Maybe you usually know stress as a bad thing; especially men, because men tend to assume that they recognize what they feel is not masculine, according to Terrence Real, author of I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of MaleDepression. However, stress is a normal thing that every human being feels and stress itself is actually divided into two, distress (negative stress) and eustress (positive stress).
What is positive stress (eustress)?
Fundamental difference from eustress and distress itself is from the way you process events that happen to you. If you accept it with a feeling of heaviness, fear, a feeling of wanting to run away, then you might experience it distress. The wisest thing you can do is to face the problem directly to the point or "run away" and look for things that can keep you away from sources of stress.
But, if you accept it without fear, and you become motivated, feel your life is full of challenges that you have to solve like playing video game, that's eustress.
What are the characteristics of stress (eustress)?
You need to know some characteristics from eustress so that you better understand it by example your daily conditions. The following are characteristics of eustress:
- Motivate yourself
- Make you feel intrigued
- Increase your performance at work
- It usually only happens for a while
- Is a way to cope with stress itself
Eustress make you feel you have to work on that big project seriously, find money for the delivery of your first child with enthusiasm, or prepare your presentation carefully.
Apart from the above, there are more examples of conditions that causeeustress, that is:
- Start work in a new place
- Wedding
- Buy a house
- Traveling
- Try new hobbies
Poor stress can be changed to good stress
The key is to feel that you are a hero invideo game; You have to feel that you "can", and see that from everything you experience now there will definitely be a lesson that you get for a better future. By changing your outlook in a more positive direction, it is hoped that you can also fight your fear of being challenged.
What do you do? Now you already know the difference, right? Never forget the limits of your life. Keep thinking positively, but stay alert to the environment. Give yourself a small 'gift' that you usually ignore; get enough sleep, healthy food, communicate a lot with loved ones. Undoubtedly, your life will also be happier.
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