First we’ll take a look at what stress is and how it affects the body Before we get specific about work-related stress, let’s first explore what stress actually is. Stress is your body’s way of responding to a demand or threat. When you sense danger—whether it’s real or imagined – it is a natural and automatic response known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction. In primitive times this response enabled humans to either escape danger by running […]
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Mental health is an increasing issue for us all. One in four of the UK population will be diagnosed with a mental illness – that’s diagnosed!…what about the further estimated 18% of us that suffer in silence or find the stigma associated with a mental struggle too hard to address? So there are 28 million of us in the UK that are directly affected by mental illness of some sort. But if we’re not sufferers […]
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Calmer Sea, the powerful mental health and well-being app, can help you to manage stress and anxiety and make positive life changes every day. In fact you’ll learn some of the most powerful techniques and coping strategies that are clinically proven to work. The dynamic 30-step plan takes users on a transformative journey, just as a ship must adjust it’s course and cope with the ever-changing environments and external influences, so must we – and when […]
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Stress is on the increase, both at work and in our personal lives, in fact between 2015 and 2016, 11.7 million days were lost to the UK economy due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety, accounting for over a third of all work-related health cases. But not all stress is bad, linked to our natural fight or flight reaction some stress can help us to react to certain things more effectively and avoid danger but […]