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Quotes About Stress

advantages, they experience among the highest rates of depression, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, somatic complaints, and unhappiness of any group of children in this country.2
~ Unknown
We are all at the mercy of the hostility of the service industry.
~ John D. MacDonald
one man, under stress, react in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in a noble way, a selfless way. But to me, organized religion, the formalities and routines, it's like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. I don't knock it for other people. Maybe they need routines, rules, examples, taboos, object lessons, sermonizing. I don't.
~ John D. MacDonald
I worry about everything all day long and half the night. I worry about things you never heard of.
~ John D. MacDonald
There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.
~ John E. Sarno
The decision maker in the brain has decided that the overt expression of unbridled rage would ruin the person's life, and to prevent that from happening, it automatically initiates physical symptoms in the body without consulting the conscious, rational mind.
~ John E. Sarno
People often say that they have a very stressful job and that's why they're tense. But if they weren't conscientious about doing a good job, if they weren't trying to succeed, achieve, and excel, they wouldn't generate tension. Often such people are highly competitive and determined to get ahead. Typically, they are more critical of themselves than others are of them.
~ John E. Sarno
The work of Dr. Hans Selye is credited with first drawing attention to how stress affects the body; his research and writing were prolific and stand as one of the major accomplishments of medicine in the twentieth century.
~ John E. Sarno
Neck, shoulder, and back pain syndromes are not mechanical problems to be cured by mechanical means. They have to do with people's feelings, their personalities, and the vicissitudes of life.
~ John E. Sarno
Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all. Pressure
~ John Eldredge
Stress is a choice.
~ John G. Miller
The truth is, different people have different reactions to the same situation. Stress is a choice. Stress is also the result of our choices.
~ John G. Miller
Procrastination also increases stress. As things pile up, we begin to feel overwhelmed, which takes the joy out of our work. Bottom line: Procrastination is costly to all involved.
~ John G. Miller
He is stressed by the unsolved problems of his day and finds relief through forgetting them. [...] She, however, wants to find relief by talking about the problems of her day.
~ John Gray
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
~ John Gray
When confronted with a problem, a man wants to solve it while a woman often wants to talk about it first. For women, talking and then feeling heard and understood stimulates oxytocin, which allows her estrogen levels to rise and her stress to decrease. Through expressing her feelings, she is able to return to her female side, which balances her hormones and lowers her stress levels. In this way she is better able to cope with life's inevitable external stresses.
~ John Gray
Men do become very emotional when they have a big upset.
~ John Gray
Until the age of nine, a child doesn't need choices. Having too many choices pushes a child to grow up too soon. One of the greatest sources of stress for adults today is too many choices. Directly asking a young child what she wants puts too much pressure on the child. Always asking children what they want or how they feel weakens a parent's ability to maintain control.
~ John Gray
With increasing stresses at work and with higher expectations of lasting romance at home, relationships today are challenging for almost everyone.
~ John Gray
Global studies reveal that as women become more educated and financially independent, their risk of staying single or getting a divorce increases, their happiness decreases, and their stress levels rise.
~ John Gray
Male Stress Symptoms The steady production of testosterone is linked to a man's well-being. When a man is confronted with external stressors, eventually his testosterone levels become depleted. They become even more depleted when different aspects of his male side become overshadowed by overexpressed characteristics of his female side. When his testosterone is low or his estrogen is too high, he is more vulnerable to a wide range of male stress symptoms.
~ John Gray
These are some of the most common symptoms of chronic stress in a man. Quite often they unfold in the following order over time, unless he is unable to find a way to return to his masculine side. 1.?Low motivation 2.?Apathy 3.?Rigidity or stubbornness 4.?Grumpiness 5.?Anger and irritability 6.?Resistance to change
~ John Gray
Similarly, if he is watching a game to forget his problems but his wife disapproves of his actions, the feeling that he is letting her down can prevent him from rebuilding his testosterone levels.
~ John Gray
I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
~ John Grisham