{"id":2462,"date":"2014-09-16T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-help-4-stroke-plugin-upgrade.local\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2024-08-22T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:33:14","slug":"i-want-to-feel-less-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"I want to feel less stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/less_stress.jpg\" alt=\"Man holding hands to head\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/less_stress.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/less_stress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stress is \u201cnormal\u201d and everyone copes in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>You might feel reluctant to ask for help but If you are finding it difficult to cope, there is help available.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing how stress makes you feel and the things that can cause it can help you to cope better.<\/p>\n<p>To explore ways to reduce your stress please visit our topic <a title=\"Stress relief\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stress relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reflect\">\n<h3>Something to think about<\/h3>\n<p>Think about how you react to things you find stressful. Do you do something to calm yourself down or make yourself feel better such as having a cigarette, an alcoholic drink, or eating rich fatty food? It might help to explore the <a title=\"Stress\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/?p=1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stress relief<\/a> topic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"wp-spoiler-1\" class=\"wp-spoiler wpui-hashable wpui-narrow wpui-styles\" data-style=\"wpui-narrow\">  <h3 class=\"wp-spoiler-title wpui-hashable fade-true slide-true open-false\">More information<\/h3><div class=\"wpui-hidden wp-spoiler-content\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Opens new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chss.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/E6-Mental-Wellbeing-WEB-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chest Heart &amp; Stroke Scotland &#8211; Mental Wellbeing [.pdf]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/ML_Qualreview_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stroke survivors\u2019 and family members\u2019 perspectives of multimodal lifestyle interventions for secondary prevention of stroke and transient ischemic attack: a qualitative review and meta-aggregation [.pdf, 269 KB]<\/a> <em>Lawrence M, Pringle J, Kerr S, Booth J. (2015) Stroke survivors\u2019 and family members\u2019 perspectives of multimodal lifestyle interventions for secondary prevention of stroke and transient ischaemic attack: a qualitative review and meta-aggregation. Disability &amp; Rehabilitation, early online: 1-11 doi:10.3109\/09638288.2015.1031831<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/ML_AnExplorationoflifestylebeliefs_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An exploration of lifestyle beliefs and lifestyle behaviour following stroke: findings from a focus group study of patients and family members [.pdf, 293 KB]<\/a> <em>Lawrence M, Kerr S, Watson H, Paton G, Ellis G. (2011) An exploration of lifestyle beliefs and lifestyle behaviour following stroke: findings from a focus group study of patients and family members. BMC Family Practice, 11:97<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>  <\/div><!-- end div.wp-spoiler -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is \u201cnormal\u201d and everyone copes in different ways. You might feel reluctant to ask for help but If you are finding it difficult to cope, there is help available. Knowing how stress makes you feel and the things that can cause it can help you to cope better. To explore ways to reduce your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-do-i-keep-healthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfhelp4stroke.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}