Stress Management Ideas


Are you somebody who always seems to be under stress? Do you worry
most of the time and feel that you have the weight of the world on
your shoulders? For the first twenty-two years of my life, I was
constantly down and depressed and used to feel very sorry for
myself.

This article describes how I managed to break free of this
depression to have a fairly stress-free life.
Growing up I felt rather hard done by, that life had not dealt
me a good hand of cards. These were the reasons I felt sorry for
myself:
I had a speech impediment, known as a
stutter
I have a bald patch on my head the size of a ten pence
piece
Due to comfort eating, I was overweight
I am quite short for a
male at five foot four

Some of the above you may think are quite trivial issues, however
for me especially as a teenager they caused me a lot of stress.
Stuttering was the major thorn in my side causing me many
problems and traumas.

I suffered with this speech impediment for
eighteen years before finally managing to beat the problem. I now
help other
people to achieve fluency.
At the age of twenty-two I started to read a lot of books about
positive thinking and also started to take more of an interest in
world affairs. This gave me a huge wake up call as it made me
realise that I was actually dealt a very good set of cards.

There
are not many countries I would rather have been born in, the things
above that I felt were so terrible are in fact very trivial
compared to
people who live in parts of
Africa, as an example.
I had stressed so much that by the age of twenty-one my hair had
already started to turn grey. A colleague at work was also to have
a huge affect on my life without him even knowing it. He was a man
(I will call him Peter) who had many of his own issues.

Peter had
learning difficulties, had what I call the shakes, did not have
many friends and did not have a girlfriend in the six years that I
knew him. I would meet Peter for lunch on most days and he would
always have a beaming smile on his face. One day I thought to
myself, what have you got to smile about? I then decided that if he
could smile then so could I.
I now am very happy with who I am, and if people do not like me,
I don't care.

Life is so much easier now!
Stephen Hill has a number of
websites including:
stuttering
stress relief information
stress management game
Stephen Hill runs The How To Stop Stammering Centre to help
people who stutter to achieve fluency

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