Stress

[Bill Walker]

Is it real or a fallacy ?

Do you need some or is it bad, and what level is bad for your health?

My Dad said once;
'stress is a Messerschmidt up your arse over the channel' .......when he heard of someone taking stress leave.

 

[Eccles Blue]

It is real and affects different people in different ways (which is an obvious statement really but there we go). Some people, because of their personality, can cope with stress very well whilst others go under at what seems to an outsider the slightest thing.

I've worked with people who, after a period off work with stress, have not been able to cope back in the classroom and have had to take ill health retirement and others who, under the same amount of stress thrive on it. It is not something you can really measure, IMHO, it is individual. I remember when I was training there was a quote that went something like; "everyone is an individual with an individuals needs and an individual fingerprint. No one person is the same as me".

So yes stress might be a Messerschmidt etc., but it is also a pin prick in your thumb or a child who tells you that they are not going to wear the clothes you want them to wear. (because that could be the last straw!) In other words you can cope for so long then wham it all catches up on you. I know, I've been there.

Sometimes the Messerschmidt is easier to cope with actually. There's nowt so queer as folk as my old Gran used to say.

 

[Helmet Cole]

I wonder of mental stress is the same as physical stress in that if you are used to none then a little bit all of a sudden will mess you up and leave you knackered?

 

[Eccles Blue]

And there you have it in a nutshell Helmet, mental and physical can mess you up but who is to say which one pushes you over the edge? Is it measurable?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Think its completely individual. Everyone has their individual stress levels and thresholds. I have seen colleagues crippled by stress levels that seem on the face of it to be minor and others thrive on massive pressure. I retired a couple of years ago so most stressful thing now is choosing where to go fishing!

 

[Helmet Cole]

If I played football for an hour now of probably be to fucked to do anything for a week because I'm unfit but when i'm fit I could probably play the same football after running for an hour and be OK the next day. if I were used to a nice stress free life then it may only take a sudden small amount of stress to screw me up.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

It definitely exists. It's making sure to recognise the causes and sort those things out. Once you know the signs try and manage your life so stress doesn't get to great. I need some stress to get things done.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Nowadays everything has a label and usually a cure. Or not in some cases. In the past we were just plain ill and walked round with leeches sticking out of our head.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I usually work under great stress, which I generally cope with reasonably well, plus my mum's been ill for the best part of a year, at one point very seriously, and I've coped with that but some little, relatively insignificant thing can be the straw that breaks the camel's back and tip me over the edge.

I find I get most stressed when I'm bored, either at work when I've little to do or at home between contracts.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Think its completely individual. Everyone has their individual stress levels and thresholds. I have seen colleagues crippled by stress levels that seem on the face of it to be minor and others thrive on massive pressure. I retired a couple of years ago so most stressful thing now is choosing where to go fishing!

I took up fishing about 4/5 years ago,i wish I had taken it up many years before, nothing better than getting away from it all and having a day on the bank :)