Stress...

First, recognize stress:

Stress symptoms include mental, social, and physical manifestations. These include exhaustion, loss of/increased appetite, headaches, crying, sleeplessness, and oversleeping. Escape through alcohol, drugs, or other compulsive behavior are often indications. Feelings of alarm, frustration, or apathy may accompany stress.

Stress Management is the ability to maintain control when situations, people, and events make excessive demands. What you can do to manage your stress?
What are some strategies?

1.Look around
See if there really is something you can change or control in the situation.
2.Set realistic goals for yourself
Reduce the number of events going on in your life and you may reduce the circuit overload.
3.Don't sweat the small stuff
Try to prioritize a few truly important things and let the rest slide.
4.Learn how to best relax yourself
Meditation and breathing exercises have been proven to be very effective in controlling stress. Practice clearing your mind of disturbing thoughts..
5.Change the way you see your situation; seek alternative viewpoints
Stress is a reaction to events and problems, and you can lock yourself in to one way of viewing your situation. Seek an outside perspective of the situation, compare it with yours. and perhaps lessen your reaction to these conditions..
6.Avoid extreme reactions
Why hate when a little dislike will do? Why generate anxiety when you can be nervous? Why rage when anger will do the job? Why be depressed when you can just be sad?.
7.Avoid self-medication or escape
Alcohol and drugs can mask stress. They don't help deal with the problems.
8.Begin to manage the effects of stress
This is a long range strategy of adapting to your situation, and the effects of stress in your life. Try to isolate and work with one "effect" at a time. Don't overwhelm yourself. for example, if you are not sleeping well, seek help on this one problem..
9.Try to "use" stress
If you can't remedy, nor escape from, what is bothering you, flow with it and try to use it in a productive way. [studygs.net,2011]