In modern times, doctors consider stress as a silent killer. Many factors can cause depression in a person, including family problems, occupational problems, illness, war, epidemics, and psychosis. But even in today’s progressive era and advanced medical systems, it is a difficult task for a common man to recognize this problem and make an effort to treat it on time. Depression has become a global problem in today’s world due to which a large number of people around the world either lose their lives every year or are forced to lead an unhappy troubled life.
National Stress Awareness Day is observed on 1st November every year by health and social organizations to promote ways to reduce human stress to establish stress as a disease worldwide and work towards its prevention and improvement and rehabilitation of victims. Stress is usually an emotional problem. Generally, every person has to face depression at some point in life.
But when depression starts filling your thoughts with negativity affecting your way of thinking and acting and your normal life then it comes in the category of a serious disease and increases your stress. Stress is a condition whose prevention is very important otherwise it affects the person’s life family professional and social life.
Even every year a large number of people take steps like suicide due to this problem. So national stress awareness day is observed every year to reduce stress and increase awareness among people.
History of Stress Awareness Day
National Stress Awareness Day was first established by the Stress Management Association. This organization Stress Stress Management how a person can reduce his stress gives people the right idea about the ways to prevent stress and the symptoms of stress and helps to prevent it. This organization is a nationally and internationally recognized organization and this organization instituted National Stress Awareness Day which is internationally recognized.
Every year on National Stress Awareness Day in November, the International Stress Management Association was established to raise awareness among people and help people recognize and reduce the symptoms of stress in their personal and professional lives. National Stress Awareness Day helps people to cope with their stress at work and accordingly teaches people proper stress-coping techniques. They teach people techniques backed by various science so that they are always able to reduce their stress at work.
National Stress Awareness Day helps in ensuring that a working person can properly perform their assigned duties at work every day by reducing their stress and taking care of their health. Many people are unable to cope with chronic stress or fail which may threaten their lives. Even due to prolonged stress, many people take decisions like suicide.
Stress is a mental problem that can cause harm to the body, high blood pressure, heart disease, decreased immunity, sociability, and many other types of damage. National Stress Awareness Day is a day when you can find out the signs of your stress and find ways to prevent it. National Stress Awareness Day is usually celebrated on alternate Wednesdays of the week. And National Stress Awareness Day is mainly observed in workplaces to make people realize that employees should not be pushed beyond their capacity.
Significance of National Stress Awareness Day
A 2021 Global Gallup survey found that four out of every 10 adults worldwide admit to experiencing anxiety and stress regularly. National Stress Awareness Day is observed every year to help people who are suffering from mental problems like depression. The International Stress Management Association has taken this initiative to raise awareness about stress prevention. The main objective of National Stress Awareness Day is to promote positive change in the context of global stress.
One of the main objectives of observing National Stress Awareness Day is to encourage policymaking specially to reduce workplace stress. According to the World Health Organization, about 12 billion workdays are lost each year due to stress, depression, and anxiety. This saves the world economy about a trillion dollars every year. Although the term stress is commonly used to refer to mental stress, the stress caused by stress can go beyond the mind to the body or social life.
Stress can range from low mood swings to irritability, lack of motivation to work, shirking responsibilities, making mistakes at work, giving up, and even self-harm or suicidal thoughts. The line between mind and body is already very blurred and it doesn’t take long for the effects of stress to reach beyond the mind to the body. From sleep disturbance to not sleeping at all due to stress, there is a possibility of increasing diseases such as always feeling lethargic, loss of appetite, indigestion, and even pain in the glands.
In other words, we can say that stress can harm us a lot. When a person is under stress, turmoil develops in his family life. When on stage, the mind is not good and does not want to talk to anyone, which results in moral pollution with family members and creates chaos in the family. You can also lose your job due to not doing well at work. Also, there are physical ailments. Then you understand how stress can destroy our life.
So, to get rid of stress, you have to find ways to prevent and remedy it. And to educate people about stress prevention techniques is very important to observe National Stress Awareness Day every year. National Stress Awareness Day is observed every year with deep significance because as many people in the world are constantly suffering from mental problems, by solving this problem, it is possible to increase the number of skilled workers in the field of work as well as to normalize the lives of people who are suffering from mental depression.
How to celebrate National Stress Awareness Day?
The impact of stress is perhaps greatest in the social sphere. From relationship complications to constant break ups, friendlessness, family break ups, unwanted relationships and easy addictions and gradual destruction is not an exception in today’s society. We all experience stress at one time or another. It is very difficult to say exactly where the human mind is located, but the effect of mental stress is more or less everywhere in the body.
Now the question may be how? The two systems that this effect spreads more or less throughout the body are the endocrine or hormonal system and the immune or defense system. The main cause of stress is nerve or nerve irritation. When all nerves are stimulated, the secretion of the neurotransmitter ‘adrenaline’ increases. As a result, blood pressure increases, sleep problems, decreased appetite, and heart palpitations are felt.
A study by Princeton University shows that when someone is under stress, his/her IQ level decreases. Being under stress before an exam reduces the memory skills of test takers. Stress naturally acts as an alarming system for our body and mind. When we experience stress, our body goes into the fight and flight response (also known as the acute stress response, which refers to a physiological response when we are in the presence of something that is emotionally or physically threatening), and then the body goes into an automatic relaxation phase.
But nowadays TV, social media, news, or our normal life can bring regular stress. Due to this stress alarm does not get a chance to go off. To get rid of the end, we must first be aware that stress is a disease. National Stress Awareness Day is observed every year to raise awareness about stress worldwide and to teach people strategies to reduce stress. Let us now know how the National Stress Awareness Day can be observed-
The best way to observe National Stress Awareness Day today is to take a day off from your workplace and try to spend the entire day in a worry-free and stress-free way. Stress weakens us as much as we weaken physically. As a result, negative effects are created in us. Take a long day off today and try to do things you like, maybe spend time with your loved ones, read a book by your favorite author, take a long bath and go for a walk somewhere you like.
Another way to celebrate National Stress Awareness Day today is to try to find out what you are most stressed about at work or what area in your family or social life is causing you stress and find a solution. You can’t be stress-free until you find a way to solve it yourself. Take some time today to think about what is causing you stress and how you can get rid of this stress. Try to understand whether this pressure is coming from your family or your office and take action accordingly.
Today is National Stress Awareness Day which means you must be stressed free so try to smile all day today. Have a great time with family or a long tour with friends. Or you can organize a party. And if you prefer to be alone, then definitely try reading comic books. Or you can see a funny picture. Or you can tell someone a joke, and you will laugh and someone else will laugh. The best antidote to stress is to keep yourself happy.
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National Stress Awareness Day Quotes
Eating and drinking properly, but fatigue is not removed from the body. My body feels sick. But you don’t understand why. Such a situation must happen many times. The real cause is stress. Stress affects much more than the way we feel. It can also affect our physical health. An example of this is a migraine or “stress headache”. Stress can affect our appetite, and sleep, raise our blood pressure, and more. Long-term or chronic stress can affect our cardiovascular, immune, digestive, and gastrointestinal systems.
Whether due to work or personal reasons, stress is constantly making our bodies sick all the time. For one reason or another, we are under stress. Excessive stress results in numerous emotional and physical disorders. Every person has a specific goal or has to face various challenges in life. But when these things happen in excess, it brings bad consequences. And at this time unnecessary excessive stress is created in the person.
Stress is one thing that can destroy your family’s social relationships. When a man is not mentally happy, he/she does not like anything. There is no peace in family life or social life. Mental health is something that is an essential part of life. Many people make the most wrong decisions in life due to mental breakdowns. So, to remove human pressure, you have to come forward first.
Currently, consulting a doctor on how to de-stress provides useful advice and even various organizations teach stress-relieving techniques. Today is National Stress Awareness Day. You have to be mentally strong to remove your stress. Today some quotes are highlighted on the occasion of Stress Awareness Day. Quotes that will help you understand the importance of de-stressing-
- “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” — John Newton
- “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock
- “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” — Viggo Mortensen
- “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” — Winston Churchill
- “Mental health awareness doesn’t mean fighting stress, anxiety, depression, and other everyday mental health issues, rather it means consciously modulating the habits that intensify those issues. Once you are in control of your habits, instead of checking your habits, you would automatically be in a much better shape, both mentally and physically. ” ―Abhijit Naskar
- “There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.”
―William George Jordan
- “No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.”
―Holly Mosier
- “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” – Fred Rogers
What can we do to reduce stress?
We all have some way of dealing with stress. In the language of psychology, those ways are called (coping skills). Coping skills or one’s methods of coping with difficult situations can be broadly divided into two categories:
Emotion Focused Coping
The aim here is mainly to provide immediate relief and the necessary emotional changes. For example, when faced with a sudden stressor our initial instinct may be to avoid it or deny it altogether. The goal behind this type of mental approach is to control the situation or situation-related emotions because that becomes the main goal in an emergency. This process can be either conscious, semi-conscious, or unconscious.
In this type of mental process, the immediate crisis may be overcome, but on a long-term basis, the original problem is not solved, rather, the problem is likely to worsen later.
Problem-focused coping
Coping is most effective when we can look at the cause of the stress, aside from the stress-causing feelings, and focus on how that cause can be reduced or eliminated. In psychology, this is called problem-focused coping. That is, trying to solve the cause rather than just being driven by emotion ultimately eases both the difficulty and the feelings that accompany it. While this may seem like common sense, it is often lost on us during times of stress, and by relying only on emotions or feelings, we often exacerbate the danger or problem.
What else can we do to reduce stress?
Sports and physical activity:
Active sports and sweaty physical activity do not only benefit the body. Modern science today has proven time and time again that exercise causes the release of specific chemicals in the body. Among them, the endorphin chemical specifically acts on different parts of the brain that help us smile to keep us happy and stress-free. The same applies to yoga.
Sleep:
Sleep is a normal physiological process. If we don’t get enough sleep, we all get sick. Adequate and adequate sleep helps keep stress under control. Although the need for sleep varies from person to person, we all need 7-8 hours of sleep a day.
Spending time on things you like:
Hobby Leisure entertainment. While today in 2023 it has become watching TV serials or playing games on smartphones or spending time on social media, the word hobby had a slightly different meaning some time back. If one can go back to the days of collecting stamps or something like dancing, singing, or learning a musical instrument, the joy will surely work well to relieve stress.
Avoidance of food and addictions:
The right (both qualitative and quantitative) type of food and avoidance of addictions keep stress under control. Any addiction usually starts as a way to relieve stress, although it doesn’t take long for that addiction to cause stress.
Family and Friends:
The last thing that must be mentioned is that having friends or family members by our side helps a lot in keeping our stress under control. Just listening to someone or a few right people and the warmth of relationships goes a long way in keeping us mentally healthy.
National Stress Awareness Day Status
The secret to stress management is to take care of yourself and eliminate sources of stress wherever possible. Take some time away from the activities that are stressing you out, take it easy, and find a quick solution to the household problems that add stress to you. Do things that keep you tension free and that make you feel good. All of these will make a difference and reduce the threat to your well-being.
When people experience unusual stress at work, they work harder to get closer to filling the gap between what they have achieved and what they should have achieved through their work. Works hard. As a result, they do not rest, eat properly and ignore their own needs or wants. And as a result, extreme stress is born in the individual. The second biggest cause of stress in England is occupational health problems.
Employees are often unable to cope with stress and are reluctant to seek help for it. Whether physical or mental, stress is an inevitable part of a modern busy life. Although it starts with the mind, its effect is so strong that it affects the whole body. It is easy to handle the stress related to family problems, but the real problem starts when the stress becomes chronic. So, awareness is needed to reduce stress. Many initially assume that stress is normal.
But when its level increases day by day, there is a problem. Stress is a mental illness. To get rid of it, some strategies have to be adopted. If the amount increases, then a doctor should be consulted. Many take decisions like suicide due to stress. Nowadays, in the younger generation, young women are taking decisions like suicide due to stress.
Every day we see news of someone committing suicide in the news. Which is a sad thing for us. By raising awareness about stress and encouraging people to know how to prevent it, we can save lives. You can also make people aware by sharing an educational status on National Stress Awareness Day. Here are some statuses for you-
- Although stress is undesirable, it is not unreasonable. You cannot escape from it, but you can handle all situations by keeping yourself calm. So let’s not be afraid of stress and try to prevent it. Happy National Stress Awareness Day
- There are several ways to manage stress. If you follow them, stress will be controlled a lot. Stress is different for different people or individuals and it manifests in different ways. We have to move forward through all obstacles in life so let’s de-stress ourselves. Happy National Stress Awareness Day
- Stress affects both the mind and body. If stress continues for a long time, it can lead to high blood pressure, depression, anger, and cardiovascular disease. It can even cause cancer. You can also age prematurely due to stress. We need to be aware while there is time. Help yourself to de-stress. Happy National Stress Awareness Day.
- Every one of us experiences stress in one way or another in our daily life. Any situation or condition can cause us stress. Find the cause of your stress and fix it. Happy National Stress Awareness Day.
FAQ about National Stress Awareness Day
What is the date of National Stress Awareness Day?
November 1.
Is April Stress Awareness Month?
April is National Stress Awareness Month
What is the color for stress awareness?
Blue
What color is anxiety?
Color gray
Happy National Stress Awareness Day to all. Let’s learn techniques on how to stay stress-free and encourage others to learn too. Hope we have been able to give you all the information about National Stress Awareness Day and that you have benefited from our article. If you have any queries about National Stress Awareness Day you can do it in the comment box we will try to answer them as soon as possible. Thank you so much for being with us. Visit our website regularly to know all the information about the upcoming days.
