How I Dealt With My Stress by Eating Ice Cream

When I first got into the stress management business, I was stress sensitive and didn't even know it. I would occasionally suffer from stress-related health problems and not even fully appreciate the irony, or even care. And that's one of the enduring mysteries of stress: why we don't always see how stress affects us. Why we don't see how grumpy we've become, or how easily upset we are, or why we ignore the headaches we get, or the colds we catch, or the stomach pain we experience after a particularly stressful episode in our lives. We just don't connect the dots back to our stress, or if we do, we never really see it clearly enough to do much of anything about it. And this even applies to so-called experts on stress like me! This list contains of some of the stress-related conditions that affected me over the first 10 years of running a stress management business and some of the counterproductive coping strategies I'd employ to deal with them. Let me be the first to say that when you suffer from a stress related condition, stress is usually just one component of the problem and not necessarily the cause of it. Stress just makes things worse, makes you more vulnerable to developing the problem and that's why it's a tricky thing for doctors to diagnose. For example, when I would catch a cold, one of my three kids would usually get it first, so who's to say whether it was the stress in my life that made me vulnerable or the rhinovirus that I was exposed to? Still studies...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news