• April 20, 2024

Do you bite your nails or pull your hair when you are very tense? These are some consequences of the stress that we can do without realizing it, since we do it unconsciously when we find ourselves in situations that generate anxiety.

According to the psychologist Matilde Matuk, specialist of the Patient Assistance Clinic of the Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico (SPM) , stress can be demonstrated in different ways, for example as gastritis, insomnia, anxiety to eat, drink alcohol; all this to free yourself from the anguish of the moment.

5 keys vs bad habits of stress

Stress can alter our concentration and affect the results of our actions. Therefore, the specialist gives you five keys that will help you to deal with these bad habits and improve your quality of life.

1. Exercise. This activity releases endorphins and helps us spend all our energy.

2. Have a hobby The goal is to do something that we like to forget for a moment the tension and reduce the behaviors of anxiety and anxiety.

3. Iidentify the key moments. It is important to become aware of our behaviors and to detect the moment in which we begin to do so.

4. Talk. Expressing our feelings with friends and family can help to release it. "Things that are not spoken always act, things that we can not put into words, the body acts them." What matters is releasing the energy in some way, says the specialist.

5. Professional Help. If it is not controllable and causes problems in daily life, it is best to go to a therapy with a health professional to help understand and control this situation with exercises and different techniques. "If you are at a time that is not so developed, we will be able to control it", the important thing is not to despair.

"Living in a city generates stress and many times people do not get used to being stressed, so it is very important to give us a time for ourselves a day, remember how it is to live relaxed, enjoying what life has in front of us, not always to be looking for the future, but to enjoy the present ", concludes the specialist.

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