Stress is a situation that occurs when the physical and mental boundaries of the organism are threatened and challenged. If an individual who is faced with a threat believes that he/she cannot cope with this threat or get along, he/she becomes stressed. Stress physically manifests itself in the individual as palpitations, muscle tension, and increased blood pressure.
In the long term, it can cause headaches, migraines, high blood pressure and heart diseases. Stress creates emotional anxiety, pessimism, anger and rage in the individual. In the long term, it can cause mental illnesses such as chronic anxiety and depression, psychotic depression, phobias, personality changes and disintegration of personality. Stress can cause mental inability to concentrate, forgetfulness, sleep disorders and obsessive thoughts in the long term.
As a result of physiological, emotional and mental effects, the individual may experience decreased productivity, loss of enjoyment of life, withdrawal from close relationships, and feelings of emptiness and meaninglessness.
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Stress that disrupts and strains individual integrity can be evaluated as environmental reasons, social stressors and psychological stressors. Stress can start with external triggers such as environmental conditions, social life, business world, family life, and can also occur due to the emotions, feelings, impulses and conflicts in each individual’s own unique world. The dynamic structures of people who apply to a doctor for such reasons are carefully and thoroughly examined and treated with individual therapy or therapy groups and psychodrama methods.
Stress is a situation that individuals have found themselves in from time to time throughout human history. Sometimes, if the stressful situation cannot be dealt with, a process leading to depression can begin.
The ability of an individual to adapt to new living conditions, to accept innovation and change, to develop and enrich oneself and to gain flexibility are important factors in coping with stress. Feelings of hostility, judgment, repetitive self-blame, gaining and showing excessive sensitivity, dissociation of emotions and their becoming a hindrance, using excessive logic and evaluating events at two extremes as either very good or very bad, not growing up enough and not transitioning to adult life, childish behaviors, not being able to communicate and interact in interpersonal relationships or shy personality traits, passive attitudes are the factors that make it difficult and unsuccessful to cope with stress.
Anger Management
Anger is one of our basic emotions, like love, liking, and fear. It is an emotion felt in situations such as “an individual being faced with a situation of frustration, being subjected to any attack, being hurt, being deprived, or perceiving a threat.” It manifests itself through reactions toward an individual or an object. Since the way these reactions are expressed is usually negative, anger is defined as a negative emotion, and even as an emotional state that can be very dangerous. If anger is felt very often (almost every day), very intensely, if inappropriate behaviors occur as a result, if it causes problems in school, work, and personal relationships, then anger is a problem. Dealing with anger requires recognizing anger, not suppressing and hiding it. When individuals recognize their anger, they can get rid of the harms of anger and express it in a constructive way for themselves.
Ways that can be used to cope with anger in a healthy way include; relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, learning stress coping skills, changing thoughts, problem solving, developing communication skills, using humor, changing the environment, etc.
