{"product_id":"2940014048842","title":"Stress Management","description":"Identifying Stressors\u003cbr\u003eMany of us may feel “stressed out” in our daily lives without knowing why. As many\u003cbr\u003epeople are on medication due to anxiety and depression, it is obvious that many of us\u003cbr\u003eare under a great deal of stress. While medications to alleviate the symptoms of stress\u003cbr\u003ecan help, they are merely a mask. The real problem is the stressful situation that we\u003cbr\u003eare enduring, either in our minds or in reality.\u003cbr\u003eJanet was a secretary for a large law firm. She had a boss who would criticize her\u003cbr\u003eevery move on a daily basis. Janet was in no position to leave her job as she was the\u003cbr\u003esole supporter of her two young children. Her husband had died two years prior and\u003cbr\u003ethis was the first job Janet had since his death. She worked hard, but no matter what\u003cbr\u003eshe did, she could never please her boss. However, she had to work so she kept her\u003cbr\u003emouth shut and never said anything. Janet’s boss had been through three secretaries\u003cbr\u003ein the past six months before he hired Janet.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough her boss was very critical, Janet liked the people with whom she worked very\u003cbr\u003emuch and considered herself lucky to be able to earn enough money to keep her\u003cbr\u003echildren in the lifestyle to which they had all been accustomed when her husband was\u003cbr\u003ealive. She considered herself happy. She felt that she was finally able to get on with\u003cbr\u003eher life after the unexpected death of her husband.\u003cbr\u003eShe could not understand, therefore, why she felt anxious all of the time. Especially on\u003cbr\u003eSunday evenings. One Sunday night she ended up in the emergency room of the\u003cbr\u003ehospital with heart palpitations. She thought she was having a heart attack so she got\u003cbr\u003eher mother to look after her kids and went to the hospital. After a series of tests, it was\u003cbr\u003edetermined that Janet suffered from a “panic attack.” The ER doctor gave her a\u003cbr\u003eprescription for tranquilizers and advised her to see a psychiatrist.\u003cbr\u003eA psychiatrist! Janet wasn’t “crazy.” And everyone knows that only “crazy” people have\u003cbr\u003eanything wrong with them mentally. So she took the tranquilizers and ignored the\u003cbr\u003eadvice of the physician. She continued to experience “panic attacks” on a more\u003cbr\u003efrequent basis until one Monday morning, she couldn’t get out of bed. Her children got\u003cbr\u003every upset and called their grandmother who found Janet in a catatonic state. She took\u003cbr\u003eher daughter to the hospital where she was admitted to the psych ward for a few days.\u003cbr\u003eJanet had what used to be called a “nervous breakdown.”\u003cbr\u003eWas Janet “crazy?” No, she was just suffering from severe anxiety and depression\u003cbr\u003ecaused by several stressors. One of them was her boss who was just a bully. The\u003cbr\u003eother was the fact that her husband had died and left her as the sole provider for her\u003cbr\u003etwo children.\u003cbr\u003eFortunately, Janet’s mother took her to the hospital as Janet had been thinking more\u003cbr\u003eand more about joining her late husband. Even more fortunate for Janet was the fact\u003cbr\u003ethat the doctor at the hospital was able to help Janet identify her stressors.\u003cbr\u003eWhile Janet could not do anything about the death of her husband, she could do\u003cbr\u003esomething about the second stress factor, which was her boss. She looked for a new\u003cbr\u003ejob with a boss who was a bit more human and finally found herself not only with a\u003cbr\u003ebetter boss, but more money. She was still able to keep in contact with the friends she\u003cbr\u003emade at her old job, who regaled her with stories about how her bully boss kept going\u003cbr\u003ethrough secretaries.\u003cbr\u003eIdentifying stressors is not so easy for most people as it was in Janet’s case. While\u003cbr\u003esome of us can point to different stress factors that have occurred recently in our lives,\u003cbr\u003eothers have absolutely no idea why we are stressed. In some cases, the original\u003cbr\u003estressor can be something that happened in our childhood.\u003cbr\u003eIn the film “The Three Faces of Eve,” a woman is depicted as having a “split personality\u003cbr\u003edisorder.” The film follows this very usual psychological disorder until they get to the\u003cbr\u003eroot of the problem which was the fact that she was made to kiss the face of her dead\u003cbr\u003egrandmother as she lay in her coffin. This was not done as a form of abuse, but was a\u003cbr\u003ecultural belief. Her mother, who made her kiss the dead woman’s face, did not do this\u003cbr\u003eto abuse her child, but believed that by kissing the face of the dead, it would cause you\u003cbr\u003enot to miss them and for them not to haunt you.\u003cbr\u003eUnfortunately, the trauma that this girl endured caused her so much stress that she\u003cbr\u003eactually felt it necessary to retreat into her own mind and develop other “personalities”\u003cbr\u003ewho usually emerged whenever she was under any sort of stress. The personalities\u003cbr\u003etook over the her life and Eve had no recollection of what the personalities were..","brand":"Laiftllc.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146053271792,"sku":"2940014048842","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014048842_p0.jpg?v=1763599696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014048842","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}