Stress is common, yet, not all doctors receive formal training to relieve stress. The reason is simple, not a single method works for the majority. Everyone handles stress differently and requires a different method to relieve it. The first thing to do to manage stress is by knowing what we are doing wrong before we can cope with stress proactively.
James Porter mentions several important things that we are doing wrong in his first article 10 Reasons Why You Don't Manage Stress, which includes:
· Our culture promotes stress
· There’s a mindset against managing stress
· We cope with our stress counterproductively
· Doctors receive no training in stress-related illness and even if they did, they wouldn’t have the time to dispense any advice
· The stress management message is way too complicated
· The science of stress needs updating
· Stress management follows the mainstream medical model
· We don’t acknowledge stress sensitivity
· Corporations are in denial about stress
· We’re looking for stress in the wrong places
James also wrote a fallow up article for possible solutions for the problems he covered in his first article. The article called The Future of Stress Management
"We don't have to continue these stressful working habits that we've learned from our parents and our over-caffeinated peers, and also from a culture that values material goods and profits way more than it values resilience, inner peace and personal growth. In order to survive the expansion and exponential growth of the age we live in, we can and must adopt new strategies"
In the articles, he explains what we need to start doing differently now in order to manage stress in the future, including:
· Creating a culture that promotes stress management
· Managing the mindset that says I don't have time to manage stress
· Managing your stress while it's happening
· Addressing the underlying sources of stress in your life
Read the full articles:
Stress, Depression May Affect Cancer Survival by Amanda Enayati
10 Reasons We Don't Manage Stress by James Porter
The Future of Stress Management by James Porter