Chronic Pain & Life
  • Blog
  • About
  • Topics
  • Read Me Please
  • Contact
  • Reflective Images
  • Facebook

Chronic Pain & Life

​tips, tools, and strategies
to living life with chronic pain

click here TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE

Causes of Stress

3/22/2014

0 Comments

 
Stress is a part of every day life, with understanding of what causes us to feel stress in our lives, we can learn to minimize the effects and gain back control. Take a look at the following causes and give careful, thoughtful consideration to what is going on in your life right now. Also, please take the time to write down what is causing you stress within your life. When we are aware of what causes our stress we are better able to plan for it and manage it.

This comes from the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Group I attended. I take no credit for the information I share here. Please also understand this information is being provided for informational purposes only, and I would strongly encourage you to speak with your doctor or health care professional if you have any questions about what you read here. I hope you will find the following information is beneficial.
Understanding "stress" and its effect

As you may know there are positive stressors that can, for example, help motivates us into a positive action and there are also negative stressors that can impact us on many levels and interfere with our daily functioning.

"Stress" can be defined as a strain felt by a person: mentally, emotionally, and/or physically.

We are going to review common causes of stress.

Causes of Stress


External:
  • physical or environmental stressors - usually to your sense of safety and/or comfort level (i.e. loud crowds, confined spaces)
  • social stressors - interaction with others, especially unpleasant individuals
  • institutional stressors - rules, regulations, deadlines etc.
  • major life events - new relationships, marriage, divorce, children born, death, moving, promotion, change in jobs etc.
  • daily hassles - small or repeated annoyances in everyday living (house or maintenance work, too much to do,driving in rush hour traffic, parking, heath issues etc)

Internal

Lifestyle choices
  • health habits - caffeine, insufficient sleep, poor nutrition, tobacco, drugs
  • overloaded schedule, insufficient leisure or poor work-life balance
  • long work hours, shift work, long commuting/travel
  • financial over-extension
  • social isolation or over involvement
Negative Self-Talk
  • critical, judgmental, insulting or blaming thoughts, put-downs
  • bossiness ("you should have done...: and "you must do...")
  • destructive emotions; guilt, worry, regret, resentment, self-pity, jealousy
  • negative filters; pessimism, cynicism, defeatism, skepticism, suspicion
  • undermining or self-defeating comparison
  • ruminating, wallowing, over-analyzing and second guessing
Interpretation of Events
  • perceiving something as a danger or threat
  • feeling a lack of control 
  • judging something to be a problem
  • jumping to conclusions about other people's motives
  • feeling "not good" about yourself
"Mind Traps"
  • unrealistic expectations
  • over-identifying with rules, job, title possessions, etc
  • taking things personally
  • taking on other people's problems as your own
  • exaggerating or generalizing
  • rigidity
  • all or nothing thinking
Belief Systems
  • outdated beliefs
  • inaccurate beliefs
  • self-limiting beliefs
  • negative beliefs
  • rigid beliefs
Stress-prone Personality Types
  • workaholics
  • overachievers
  • "Type A" personalities
  • perfectionists
  • pleasers
  • caretakers
  • victims
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Tammy...

    is living life with chronic pain...doing the best I can with everyday. 

    Categories

    All
    About The Author
    A Lil Haha
    Coping Skills
    Health Wellness
    Im Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired Rant
    Inspirational Quotes
    Inspirational Quotes Part 2
    It's Funny
    Lcp-boot-camp
    Medication Monday
    Odds Ends
    Pain Behaviours
    Spiritual Sunday
    Thought Therapy

    Archives

    August 2020
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.