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Mental Health
“We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.”
Stress
At the most basic level, stress is our body’s response to pressures from a situation or life event. What contributes to stress can vary hugely from person to person and differs according to our social and economic circumstances, the environment we live in and our genetic makeup. Some common features of things that can make us feel stress include experiencing something new or unexpected, something that threatens your feeling of self, or feeling you have little control over a situation.
Reference: Centre for Studies on Human Stress. Recipe for Stress: Retrieved on 27 November 2018 from: http://humanstress.ca/stress/understand-your-stress/sources-of-stress
Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal, if unpleasant, part of life, and it can affect us all in different ways and at different times. Whereas stress is something that will come and go as the external factor causing it (be it a work, relationship or money problems, etc.) comes and goes, anxiety is something that can persist whether or not the cause is clear to the sufferer.
Anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, and prevent them from confronting their fears. Often they will think they are going mad, or that some psychological imbalance is at the heart of their woes. What is important is the recognition that anxiety is normal and exists due to a set of bodily functions that have existed in us from our cave-man days.
Featured Mental Health Blogs
Mental Health is as important for our well-being as our Physical Health. In fact, we believe that a healthy combination of the two is required for our overall wellbeing. Doesn’t matter if you are the one of the physically fittest people on earth, if you struggle with your mental health. Surprisingly, I have undoubtedly realised this is the case, when I came across with Dame Kelly Holme's book: ‘Running Life - Mindset, Fitness and Nutrition for Positive Wellbeing’.