Ever had a misunderstanding with a colleague at work and your entire day was filled with strife and tension? Had a good time the previous night and forgot to compile the reports, got up late in the morning, only to find your team jittered and anxious?

In a more personal setting, you realize your partner is receiving strange text messages and phone calls past 10:00 pm, how does that make you feel? Or perhaps, you found your fifteen-year-old rolling a pint of marijuana in the basement and you’re just on your way out to catch up with an old friend.

Stress is a common issue in everyday life. If you asked different people, from different ethnicities, and geographies, they’ll explicate a different experience all narrowing down to the same thing. What they might overlook is how this thing called stress affects their efficiency whether it’s at work or in other personal hustles.

In this text, we’ll be helping you understand stress from a psychological perspective, symptoms, and effects, and what to do whenever you find yourself drowning in this common psychological strain.

The Key Message?

Instead of stress working using your body to work against you, by understanding it, you can use it to be prolific, improve your performance, and your overall elasticity to stressful situations.