Relief from Stress

Stress is a normal part of life. We all experience it.

But it becomes serious when we experience prolonged stress, which leads to distress, causing a number of physical and emotional health problems.

At Khiron Clinics we understand the impact that stress can have on your daily life. That’s why our team of professional counsellors, psychologists, and therapists are here to help you manage stress and prevent it from negatively impacting all areas of your life.

How does stress affect health?

Our bodies are designed to experience stress and respond to it. Stress can be a positive thing, because it can keep us alert, motivated, and ready to avoid danger. It becomes negative when we face continuous challenges without any relief between moments of stress. As a result, we become overworked, and tension builds within us.

Over millions of years of evolution, we have developed a natural stress response, also known as the “Fight or Flight response”, to be activated in the case of an emergency. However, this response can become convoluted and dysfunctional as a result of prolonged periods of stress. Prolonged activation of the stress response can have a negative impact on our physical and emotional health.

Excessive stress leads to distress, which can cause the body to leave its internal balance or equilibrium and lead to dysregulation of the nervous system. This in turn leads to difficult physical symptoms such as headaches, an upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, sexual dysfunction, and problems sleeping. Distress is also a leading contributing factor in emotional problems such as depression, panic attacks, or other forms of anxiety. Research on stress also suggests that stress can evoke or worsen certain symptoms or diseases. Chronic stress is linked to the following leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide.

Stress also becomes a serious problem when we compulsively use substances or behaviours to try to relieve their symptoms of stress. Common substances or behaviours that are used include food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, and the Internet. These substances and compulsive behaviours keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems, instead of achieving their desired effect, which is to return the body to a calm, balanced, relaxed state. When we are distressed, we become trapped in a vicious circle.

At Khiron Clinics, we aim to prevent the harmful symptoms of stress by addressing the root causes and applying therapeutic techniques co-ordinated by our team of professionals. Our goal is to help our patients come to terms and accept where they are in terms of psychological and emotional states, and release any harmful tension that has built in your mind over time as a result of prolonged stress that is now causing trouble.

What are the symptoms of stress?

Chronic stress can have a significant negative impact on the body’s natural defences. This leads to a variety of physical symptoms, including:

  • Dizziness
  • Aches and pains.
  • Grinding teeth, clenched jaw.
  • Headaches.
  • Indigestion
  • Increase or decrease of appetite.
  • Tension in the neck, face or shoulders.
  • Problems with sleeping.
  • Racing heart.
  • Cold and sweaty palms.
  • Tiredness, exhaustion.
  • Trembling/shaking.
  • Weight gain or loss.
  • Upset stomach, diarrhea.
  • Sexual difficulties

Expert Stress treatment

Fortunately, stress can be managed, so it doesn’t run and ruin our lives. There are a number of things that you can do yourself to help reduce stress such as meditation practice and regular exercise.

However, more often than not, when our nervous system is locked in a dysregulated pattern and we are experiencing overwhelm as a symptom of stress, we need professional help first to enable us to get into a daily routine that is stress free.

Included in our treatment programmess are proven methods of reducing stress-related symptoms and stabilising dysregulated nervous systems, such as mindfulness meditation; breathing technique; yoga; tai chi; art therapy and fitness classes.

We can help you

If you or a loved one is experiencing stress and struggling to manage, we are here to help. Our team of mental healthcare experts are well equipped to help you manage and cope with stress so that you can live happier and healthier.

If you or someone you know is struggling to find the right help for any form of mental health issue, including stress, Khiron Clinics is here to help.

We believe that we can improve therapeutic outcomes and avoid misdiagnosis by providing an effective residential programme and out-patient therapies addressing underlying psychological trauma.

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