| There's no way to live without stress. Even the rich | | | | beat yourself up over something that you can't do |
| and famous deal with their share of daily problems. All | | | | anything about. |
| of us have to learn to cope with stress levels in our | | | | Work to rid yourself of hard feelings. It often helps |
| lives in order to maintain our health and well-being. | | | | to talk situations over with others, especially when |
| That is especially true when people are suffering | | | | your relationship with them has hit a rocky place. Do |
| from fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia and stress are part | | | | what you can to straighten out problems calmly. |
| and parcel of one condition. The more the patient | | | | You can do your best to ease the stressors that |
| deals with the problems associated with the disease, | | | | you know are coming, but what about if a traumatic |
| the more stress he feels. The more stress he feels, | | | | event happens which effects your life? What will you |
| the more the illness manifests itself. It is a vicious | | | | do if you're jumped and robbed on your way out to |
| circle that is difficult to control, but a fibromyalgia | | | | your car tonight? What if the phone were to ring |
| patient must learn to do so in order to feel at the | | | | letting you know that a loved one had just been |
| top of his game. | | | | badly injured in a car accident? Things like that |
| Stress creates tension which tightens muscles | | | | happen in life, and there's no planning for them. So |
| painfully. Moderate stretching exercises will help | | | | how do you keep these events from totally |
| alleviate the stress and release the tension that has | | | | incapacitating you with negative fibromyalgia |
| built up. Stress also triggers high blood pressure which | | | | symptoms at a time when you need to be at your |
| puts additional strain on the heart. Working on some | | | | strongest? |
| of the techniques that have been found to keep | | | | You may find that it's easier to deal with major |
| stress at more manageable levels can make a real | | | | stresses than it is with small ones, because you will |
| difference in your life. Here are some methods you | | | | find yourself getting a lot of support from the people |
| can try in order to relieve some of your own stress: | | | | around you when something really bad happens. |
| Create a daily schedule, and don't let anyone push | | | | Otherwise, people tend to be wrapped up in their |
| you out of the routine. | | | | own problems and too busy or disinterested to care |
| Look for easier ways to get things done. If that | | | | about yours. You need to find someone you can talk |
| means delegating some of the jobs you usually do to | | | | to when things go wrong, and often those people |
| a subordinate, then do it. | | | | are ones you wouldn't have known otherwise. They |
| Stay away from people who make you feel | | | | can be medical professionals or members of a |
| stressed. Avoid confrontations if at all possible. You | | | | support group who are willing to listen and offer |
| want to surround yourself with people who have | | | | guidance. You need someone you can loosen up with, |
| positive attitudes and won't make you nervous and | | | | someone to laugh with you, and someone willing to |
| depressed. | | | | cry with you if you hope to be able to manage |
| Resign yourself to the fact that there are things in | | | | stress. |
| life you'll never be able to change. It's no good to | | | | |