Deal with stress, adopt healthy choices

Depression is mainly stress-driven. Stress to some extent helps in boosting your energy levels to get through situations like exams or work deadlines.

However, stress can have a negative impact on your body, mind and emotions affecting the immune, cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Chronic stress if untreated might result in serious health anxiety, insomnia, high blood pressure, heart diseases, depression, obesity etc.

Seek social support
You can relieve your stress by talking or sharing your concernswith your close friends and family, this will make you feel lighter

Exercise
20 minutes walking or engaging yourself in some physical activity, in the midst of stressful times, will give a soothing feel.

Make the best of it
Pursuing your hobbies that give you internal happiness like painting, dancing, reading books, etc. will keep your worries at bay. Give at least 20 minutes of your time everyday to your hobby and you can make the best out of it

Laugh out loud
When in tension and feeling stressed, try and carry a smile. .I Indulge yourself by watching your favourite comedy shows and meeting people with humour

Meditation
Meditating 10 minutes a day, will keep you calm and at peace. This will help you with clarity and lead to solving your problems. (The writer is Preventive Healthcare specialist, at Indus Health Plus)

By Kanchan Naikawadi