COVID19 is not just a pandemic to worry, it changed the lives of the people. We come across people often saying, my business affected, my income stopped, my livelihood is in question, what to do next? One common thing in this question is a fear, "A fear of what next". The most commonly words people utter are "I am at stress", "Too much stress to all", "People are stuck at home and all have stressed life".
So, what is this stress all about? Generally, if we start thinking about something repeatedly, again and again, pressurising our mind for a solution, at a certain point the pressure becomes fear. This pressure cum fear is generally termed "mental stress".
If you deep dive into stress, it comes mostly when we feel unsecured, or have a fear of failure, or when we do something wrong and have a fear that, it will be questioned.
The stress starts right from your childhood. Lets see an example, When you have an unfinished home work and teacher starts looking at each student home work and slowly marching towards you. That moment, Your mind starts thinking hard about the results, what will happen when teacher looks at the home work, seeing it unfinished, will the teacher punish, or reduce the internal marks, will I be sent out of class. Your mind keep on adding questions and at a point, it becomes a headache and fear starts dominating you. This could happen at office too, when you have an unfinished work and your deadline is over, you have a review with your boss. You get stressed thinking what might happen?
Stress comes, when you are not able to complete something within the deadline, or where you have a fear of failure, or an unanswered question what next? How do I handle?
Can you avoid happening a stress? Yes ofcourse. Everybody will get stress at some point in life. So, it is a most common problem faced in life. What is the solution? How do I handle the stress? Let's look at it in coming next chapter.
