"Advice to Men And Women
Who Feel Stressed To The Limit..."
... using nothing more than a few minutes of your time
and simple, proven, easy practices anyone can do,
you can erase stress from your life for good!
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Dear Stressed and Overwhelmed:
This may be the most important letter about coping with stress you've ever read.
And I'm going to let you prove it to yourself, just for spending a few minutes with me today. What I have to share with you is very effective, proven and powerful... if what you want is to reduce your stress, anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed.
Let me explain:
In this short letter I'm going to give you 7 different techniques that you can use right now, today, to help you reduce and even eliminate stress completely from your life.
Below are just a few of the many incredible strategies that I've uncovered over the past few years of intensive research and study to help me deal with my own illness. If your goal is to reduce or eliminate stress... these strategies and techniques will work for you.
I'm sharing these with you today because I know that once you see how these 7 techniques work so well, you'll recognize how important and effective what I have for you truly is and you'll want to find out even more.
It wasn't that long ago that I was diagnosed with a health condition called 'M.E.'... or 'Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.' That's not important, what is however... is that the condition makes me very weak and the least bit of stress can cause major damage.
A Serious Look At Stress...
Whether you're stressed or overwhelmed... looking for relief, or simply looking for ways to prevent stress from getting out of hand and negatively affecting your life, you're not alone…
Likely, you may not even be aware of the reasons you are...
- eating more
- sleeping less
- gaining weight
- feeling tired all the time
- anxious and worried constantly
- unable to relax
- angry at the smallest things, etc...
... because you are expected to just deal with these things or even worse, you are told these are NORMAL? They are not normal... what they are is avoidable.
These are all part of your body's alarm system telling you to pay attention, that something is wrong. That if you do not listen to the warning signals, there will be consequences... side-effects like; high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes, nervous breakdowns, and a host of other possibilities.
The side-effects of unmanaged stress can be devastating to you and those around you that you care for and love... like co-workers or family.
At first, maybe you just ignore what is happening to your body or pretend that what you are feeling or experiencing is only temporary.
Maybe you blame yourself, feel embarrassed or think that you should be able to...
- deal with the added pressures
- find and keep a good paying job
- support your family
- manage your own life
- deal with your health issues (like inability to sleep or weight gain)
- better control your stress or anxiety (you can! read on...)
- fix your own relationship challenges
- make more money to deal with the higher costs of living
- cope with or avoid depression, etc.
I know I felt all of those things when I was first diagnosed with my illness... my life was falling apart all around me. Then, after years of looking for solutions, researching stress and how to avoid it, I discovered what I'm sharing with you today.
Some stress statistics from the
American Psychological Association...
From the APA Survey 2004... (*NOTE: Imagine how much these statistics must have increased today... almost 7 years later!).
- 66% of Americans are likely to seek help for stress.
- 45% of workers list job insecurity has a significant impact on work stress levels.
- 61% of workers list heavy workloads as a significant impact on work stress levels.
- Executives and managers tend to have the most stressful jobs, while self-employed workers are the least stressed.
- 52% (A majority of workers)... are more stressed because of work than home.s
- 54% of workers are concerned about health problems caused by stress.
- 25% (One in four) workers have taken a mental health day off from work to cope with stress.
- 62% of Americans say work has a significant impact on stress levels.
- 73% of Americans name money as the #1 factor that affects their stress level.
- 54% percent of Americans are concerned about the level of stress in their everyday lives.
- Having difficulty dealing with
- America's economic downturn?
You are not alone according to the APA Poll released October 7, 2008
(Again, more than two years ago!):
- 50% of Americans say that they are increasingly stressed about their ability to provide for their family's basic needs.
- 80% of Americans stated that the economy is a significant cause of stress.
- 83% of women are stressed about money vs. 78% of men
- 87% of women reported dramatic increases in stress associated with health problems affecting their families in relationship to the declining economy.
How is stress affecting your health and ability to cope?
Stress is on the rise!
You are not alone...
From the APA Poll, June 2008 (still, more than two years ago... imagine these today?)
- 60% report irritability or anger a 10% increase over the previous year.
- Adults reported that their physical and emotional symptoms due to stress increased 47% over the past year.
- 53% reported fatigue in 2008 compared to 51% in 2007.
- 60% reported feelings of irritability or anger compared to 50% in 2007.
- 52% reported lying awake at night or insomnia as a result of stress compared to 48% in 2007.
- 48% reported overeating or eating unhealthy foods to manage stress, while one in four skipped a meal in the last month because of stress. Poor eating habits have resulted in higher rates of obesity.
- 1/5 of Americans reported drinking alcohol to manage their stress and
- 16% reported smoking to manage their stress.
- Who feels the most stress?
Those who report frequent stress include: (source webmd.com)
- 44% of 18- to 29- year olds
- 46% of 30- to 49- year olds
- 47% of parents with children under 18
- 40% of women
- 35% of men
- 55% of people who say they don't have enough time to do things they want to do.
What about the relationship
between stress and depression?
These depression-related stress statistics will give you some idea of how serious the problem of depression, one of the side-effects of long term, unmanaged stress... really is:
An estimated 121 million people world-wide currently suffer from depression. (World Health Organization)
8 to 20 percent of older adults experience symptoms of depression. (Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health 1999)
Depression often co-occurs with anxiety disorders and substance abuse. (National Institutes of Mental Health)
Approximately six million American men suffer from depression. (National Institutes of Mental Health)
Nearly twice as many American women as men are affected by depression. (National Institutes of Mental Health)
Approximately 18.8 million American adults have depression. (National Institutes of Mental Health)