I experienced similar symptoms to what you are feeling and here is what I did to turn things around -
Give it a go, you should feel a whole lot more energised and relaxed. It’s a life style change!

1) Get a physical flush from a colonic therapist - A good one will give you feedback!

2) Afterwards eat mainly raw fruit and vegetables for a few days

3) Start to do some light excerises daily and slowly increase them - I found doing Wii fit/sports
fun and it didn’t seem like a chore.

4) Drink a least two pints of water a day. After a while your body will let you know when it needs it!

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Good Luck!

I’m 29 weeks & have to start getting non stress tests each week now. My OB dr didn’t really give me details about what this test means, how it is performed, how long it takes etc. He just said something about checking the fetal heart rate. I am a high risk pregnancy w/ high blood pressure so it has me kind of worried. Has anyone else had this test done & what are the details? Thanks!

How long it takes depends on if your baby is active during the time of the test. They monitor the baby’s heart rate, any contractions, and you have a button to press every time the baby moves. The first one I had lasted 4 hours because it was scheduled during a time the baby was sleeping, but on average, they lasted any where from 30 min-1 hour.

I read the entire entry in Wikipedia, but it seems kind of vague. I just don’t get what exactly it is. I know it makes someone feel uncomfortable feelings about a past event but how exactly do they respond? Is it the same as depression? Why does it say they feel nothing and are expressionless whereas for depression it says they feel sad?

Symptoms of intrusive memories may include:

Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time
Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event
Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing may include:

Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
Feeling emotionally numb
Avoiding activities you once enjoyed
Hopelessness about the future
Memory problems
Trouble concentrating
Difficulty maintaining close relationships
Symptoms of anxiety and increased emotional arousal may include:

Irritability or anger
Overwhelming guilt or shame
Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
Trouble sleeping
Being easily startled or frightened
Hearing or seeing things that aren’t there

I am worried about my health because of underneath work stress and family problems. Want to relax . Suggest me some tips.

Hi dear,

1.Sleep is the best answer and solution…
2.Talking about your problem with family members may help resolve it quickly.
3.There are some people in life who are overly sensitive and tend to take remarks that are made and turn them into a personal attack.
3.Eat three times a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner regularly. do not skip meals. then don’t eat too much, i mean keep your meals balanced.
4. Finally don’t worry about anything take things positive and don’t think too much and spoil ur health……… do ur best god will the take the rest of your life

Take it easy! There’s no point killing yourself over work etc. Get well!

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I kind of understand the concept but what is stress and how does sensory overload directly affect it.

Stress, as you’ve guessed, is a combination of mental and physical fatigue. I pastor a Church and deal with it personally and in counseling. I even wrote a short booklet on it. Your mind and body are connected. Worry, fear, anxiety, and such things add to the body’s stress as well. A body that is run down, exhausted, or sick can impact your mental state as well. Stress is unavoidable. It is part of life. We feel it any time there is pressure. Pressure to perform, pressure to be somewhere, pressure to do something, pressure to be something. All of this is stress.

Sensory overload, to culminate in stress, is usually something that is built up over time. For example: Listening to someone chewing loudly will grow more bothersome to some people over time. It focuses the mind on it so that they can’t tune it out. The intense focus on something like that leads to stress.

We live in a society where noise and images are the primary means of gaining attention. You drive down the street and see billboards and signs. You watch TV and have images flashing rapidly at you with the often overwhelming number of sounds and noises. Movies can be stressful for people. They give children nightmares, they can cause sleep deprivation. I go into people’s houses and notice that the TV is on and no one is watching. They don’t even realize that the images and noise is constantly on. You can say that their senses have been overwhelmed.

I’ve even found a correlation between children diagnosed with ADD and their environment at home. When the house is loud, noisy, and generally in a clamor, children can’t seem to absorb it well and often end up with attention spans much less than other children. It is a form of stress. I’ve observed teenagers that have to have music playing all the time, even when they go to sleep, tend to be more nervous and stressed than others.

And you can’t discount a person’s emotional state. The more raw our emotions, the more impact sensory input can affect it. A parent who had a bad day at work and comes home to loud and rambunctious children will quickly grow stressed with the noise and find himself or herself unable to deal with it properly. A wife having a bad marriage will find herself unable to deal with the pressures of her job, especially if she works in a loud environment.

There are many factors, but yes, stress and sensory overload are connected.

If you could ask Santa Claus for a method or a process or a way of handling the stress in your life, what would it do? What would it look like?
For example, meditation has helped me stay calm under stress - but the outer stress is still there.
Maybe learning to work better in teams, to get some stress off your shoulders - but then there’s the stress of working with other people!
I’d like to know what other people think.
Thank you.

Hello

That is a MASSIVE question, that Is difficult to answer all here.

The best way to release stress is to ‘Mind Dump.’

By this I mean take a piece of paper, or what ever you can get you hands on and wright everything down that is on your mind. I do mean EVERYTHING. It could be the clothes you need to get ready to get your kids to school in the morning, preparing the report that is due on your bosses desk at 9am or you need to pick up some dog food at the store, before Paddy starves!! This isn’t a 30 second job, take 5,10… an hour if you need to do this. I coached one person who had that much on his mind that this took a full morning. Once everything that is on your mind, is now not on your mind, close your eyes and take a big deep breath…. How do you feel?? (let me know I never get board of that part).

That isn’t it though. Everything you just wrote down now needs organizing into a system or your brain wont let go of it. Try putting these thoughts into some kind of diary, to-do order, or even better, a system to give them a slot in your life when you can deal with them one by one. DO NOT LET THEM CREEP BACK UP INTO YOUR HEAD!! Any new thoughts add them to your piece of paper. (If you would like further advice on this part let me know)

Your brain is an excellent gathering tool, but struggles to cope with more than seven tasks at a time, and as such can cause stress issues. Free it up to think and problem solve, don’t clutter it up with the 1000+ things that could be organized else where.

Einstein didn’t know his own telephone number, as he would not use his enormous brain to store information he could assess in other means!!

Its worth a thought.

If I could be of anymore assistance to anyone I would love to help.

Colbonce
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If no, then what does it depend on and is it the strength of the wire that depends on the cross-sectional area? This is a little confusing. Also, is tensile stress and ultimate tensile stress (breaking stress), the same thing?

Stress in a component is the applied force divided by its cross sectional area, so it doesn’t depend on the cross sectional area. However, the area will determine the force required to achieve that stress. A large cross section would require larger force than a small cross section for example, but the ratio would be the same, i.e we will end up with the same value for stress.
Tensile stress, or more correctly called the ultimate tensile strength, UTS, is the maximum stress a material can withstand before it starts to break. After this a tensile specimen would exhibit necking, a reduction in cross sectional area, that if it is a ductile material, then it would snap, or breaks when the remaining cross sectional area is not sufficient to withstand the applied force and this stress is called the breaking stress. A brittle material would not experience necking, or reduction in cross sectonal area it would snap, and usually the UTS equals the breaking stress in these materials.
Unlike UTS, the breaking stress has no meaning from mechanical design point view. UTS can be used to compare between different materials. However, in design the yield stress is used, which is the maximum stress the material can take before deformation becomes permanent, or plastic. Below the yeild stress, the material is siad to be in the elastic region, i.e any deformation is reversible, when force is lifted the compnent’s dimensions return back to original values. Furthermore when you design a component you take a safety factor, to make sure that it doesn’t fail, for example 75% of the yield stress.
In conclusion, the yield stress, UTS and breaking stress are material properties. Steel for example has higher UTS than Aluminium. Heat treatments and addition of alloying elements can increase these stresses.

What happens after the non stress test has anyone had one and do they deliver the baby after?

i had one at 39 weeks and it was just to check babies heartbeat to make sure she was fine after i met the requirements i could go home which was disapointing as i was hoping they would say they would induce me then instead i had to go 2 weeks over before being induced

I know excessive salt contributes to it, but I don’t really eat salty foods. For many years, I’ve been hearing that stress can also contribute to hypertension. I’ve been SUPER stressed out lately! Worried about a LOT. But my nurse practitioner said that stress has nothing to do with my pressure being high.

Your nurse practitioner is WRONG. When you are stressed, your sympathetic nervous system (aka fight or flight response) kicks in and releases epinephrine into your blood stream, increasing your blood pressure, heart rate, ect. You may have naturally underlying high blood pressure, but stress will increase it even further. Temporary stressors (like almost falling off a cliff) that raise your BP are not harmful, but a normal response. However, if you have chronic stress and high blood pressure, you need to have the high BP treated so your heart and blood vessels do not sustain damage and you also need to find some way of relieving stress that works for you. (exercise is best).