your reflect stress test results
Based on your responses, your stress levels are very high right now. As someone with a busy job or lots of personal commitments, you’re used to stress impacting your life, but you might have noticed it is getting worse — it’s affecting your daily life or relationships with others in a more serious way.
Your ‘normal’ stress may be brought on by a variety of factors such as work, dating challenges, relationships with others, money worries, etc. But lately, one or more of those factors is particularly taxing — a demanding job, relationship breakup, or a loss. Some issues affect us more than we’d expect, and we find ourselves spiraling.
Being fairly successful in life, many of us learned to deal with these challenges by pushing through, no matter how bad they get. Weather the storm in hopes of calmer waters. That’s actually bad. The negative effects of stress on our bodies over time have been widely studied. And it just takes one really bad episode to take the wind out of our sails. Given your current stress level, this is a real near-term possibility.
Stress quickly catches up with us. And when it does, it’s not pretty. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Queen’s University in Canada found that there’s a 40-60% chance those who experience certain levels of stress or depression will have another episode if left untreated. Your high stress requires your urgent attention.
For the other severity types, our team has compiled a list of strategies to help you manage the stress in their lives and triage during more stressful periods.
Because of how severe your stress is, we recommend a different path: it’s important you talk to a professional immediately to find specific strategies that can work based on your individual needs. General tips, although helpful, will not go far enough given your current situation.
Our therapists can help. They bring extensive experience working with other busy professionals like you manage and overcome the stress that’s weighing on them. They offer a sounding board to help you assess your current situation, manage your high levels of stress, identify insights, and create a personalized plan to navigate changes to improve yourself for the better.
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