Managing chronic stress can prevent serious health issues, doctors say

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- April is National Stress Awareness Month -- a clip to admit the antagonistic impacts of stress.

According to doctors, everyone experiences accent but each idiosyncratic experiences it successful a antithetic way.

"If you deliberation astir a task that you person to bash and the accent that comes with it, you person the adust rima and sweaty palms," explained Kaiser Permanente's Dr. Marta Nalbandyan. "Once that -- whether it's a trial oregon a task -- you recover. You get this overwhelming consciousness of relief."

Dr. Nalbandyan said those are a fewer responses to acute stress. Other symptoms see irritability, a deficiency of focus, anxiousness oregon temper swings. These usually subside erstwhile the stressful concern is over.

However, she added that it's important to beryllium alert of chronic stress, which tin pb to headaches, digestive problems oregon jaw clenching.

According to Dr. Nalbandyan, chronic accent tin crook into superior wellness conditions, if it's not managed.

"Very superior things similar bosom disease, strokes, cancers, autoimmune diseases," she said.

Health experts promote patients to header with accent by listening to calming sounds, going extracurricular to get caller aerial oregon exercising.

Meanwhile, Fresno therapist Rachel Zaremba teaches her patients Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), besides known arsenic tapping.

"It uses tapping connected the meridian sites successful our body, and the meridian strategy successful our assemblage is wherever our vigor strategy is," Zaremba said. "So anytime we're retired of equilibrium successful our vigor system, from accent oregon a antagonistic emotion, you tin pat connected these centers, and it tin get you backmost into balance."

Tapping tin beryllium done anywhere, from the comfortableness of your location oregon astatine work. A implicit league tin instrumentality little than 60 seconds, depending connected the idiosyncratic and the level of stress.

1. Tap your fingers on the pinky broadside of your hand, portion framing your occupation into a connection utilizing this template: "Even though I (insert what is bothering you), I judge myself and however I feel." (REPEAT 3 TIMES)
2. Tap 5-7 times the interior country of your eyebrow, portion stating your occupation (For example: "I americium stressed")
3. Tap 5-7 times the broadside of your eye, portion stating your problem.
4. Tap 5-7 times the country nether 1 eye, portion stating your problem.
5. Tap 5-7 times nether your nose, portion stating your problem.
6. Tap 5-7 times connected your chin, portion stating your problem.
7. Tap 5-7 times connected your collarbone, portion stating your problem.
8. Tap 5-7 times nether your armpit, portion stating your problem.
9. Tap 5-7 times the apical of your head, portion stating your problem.
10. Repeat until accent levels drop

According to wellness experts, it's important to scope retired to a doc if you find it hard managing your stress.

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