Reframes

Awareness Reframe assumptions: Myths & Facts about ‘Stress’

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Volume 6 Issue 8 August, 2016

❌Stress is the event or situation which creates pressure on us

✅Stress is actually the response of our body to those environmental, physical and social events and situations which are called stressors.

❌Psychiatric illnesses are always caused by stress

✅Psychiatric disorders are multifactorial and often stress precipitates and accelerates an underlying vulnerability to develop into a clinical syndrome and often maintains it.

❌Taking vitamin pills and herbals cure and prevent stress

✅Stress management is a holistic and behavior oriented program which focuses on lifestyle modification along with medication whenever needed and is not as simple that few vitamin and herbals at market cures it and prevents it.

❌Stress management strategies are same and anyone can make use of it

✅Stress is highly individualistic and so are the stress management strategies. So it has to be tailor made and practical enough to implement it.