Montreal Stress Management

Stress Management 

We are living in a fast speeding society, which increases the competitiveness and pressure. Burnout, anxiety and feeling stressed are increasing and impairing the relationships, mental, social, and academic functioning. 

• How do you manage stress? How do you cope with it?

• Do you feel overwhelmed?

• Do you feel like you cannot handle it anymore?

• Do you resort to eating as a means to cope? Does it work?

• Or maybe you stop eating because you lose your appetite?

• Do you try to give yourself a break by drinking alcohol? Does it make the problems disappear?

• Do you become irritable, short tempered, and even aggressive (verbally or physically)?

• Or you rather sleep off your stress and just want to be in bed?

• Do you stop your healthy routine such as exercise, good eating habit, and relaxation and just focus on the problem on hand?

If you say yes to one or more of the above listed coping strategies, you are not alone. Many people cope with stress by eating, drinking alcohol, or distracting themselves in other ways. The problem is that all these coping skills may help for a brief moment but in general they are maladaptive behaviors that usually, in long term, magnify and worsen the problem. Let’s start by looking at what stress is. Why do we have such negative perception about stress? Why are we running away from it?

For more information on Stress Management join our Stress / Anxiety Management Group 

Westmount Psychologist: Anger Management

  Understanding ANGER # 2

According to recent studies, anger is a healthy emotion that can be motivating and mobilizing if well understood, dealt with it immediately and  channeled to the right direction in individuals without an anger problem. Now how is this for people with an anger problem?

 According to study by the University of Colorado, people with anger management issues have a dysfunctional thought process when angry. As such, research suggests that such people require different methods to manage their anger. When faced with a mentally challenging situation, a normal individual will ideally embrace his anger to deal with the situation (without aggression), and ultimately store the memory as processed information. Contrarily, anger mismanagement will cause the individual to think illogically; the same research recommends that such people should not act in anger. Instead, they should wait for their mood to be relaxed before they attempt to analyze the situation. In turn, this allows the brain to store the memory as processed information, leaving the person less prone to aggression the next time he is angry.

For more information on how to manage your ANGER join our upcoming group

   info@drbitra.com

By Erwin Paydar Blogger at Clinique Dr. Bita

Westmount Psychologist: Anger Management

       

Understanding ANGER

         Contrary to popular belief, anger is not a negative or unhealthy emotion and suppressing anger is psychologically unhealthy. But rather what we do with an anger could be unhealthy and maladaptive. When a person suppresses his anger, he is merely saving it for later, since his thought processes are stored in memory. Often, such people accumulate so much anger that they resort to verbal and physical aggression due to the anxiety that accompanies it. In these cases, there is no logical thought process and the person experiencing the anger is deemed unstable, or in need of counseling.

       According to research done by Stanford University, while people generally prefer pleasant emotions over negative ones, they actually prefer to experience anger when faced with a mentally challenging situation. The researchers explain that anger improves and quickens the brain’s ability to logically and analytically process information, assuming this anger has not been accumulated. Coincidentally, the human brain has a tendency to categorize the memories it stores, and to recur old memories when experience the same state of mind. For example, some memories can be categorized as happy or sad memories; however, the brain needs to understand the memory it stores, in order to classify it. As such, when a person suppresses his anger, the brain memorizes the situation, and deems it as an unresolved memory. Thus, next time this person experiences anger, this unresolved memory will recur, accompanied by anxiety. Therefore, the thought process and course of actions that occur after an accumulation of anger are illogical because the thought processes that were needed in the past recur along with the thought process needed in the present, due to the brain’s association of anger with previous situations that required anger. In other words, when a person gets mad about a mentally challenging issue and processes and deals with it at a time as it happens, the brain will function with optimal performance. Based on a study done by the University of Santa Barbara, the logical thought process that comes from anger leads to better decision taking, assuming once again, that anger has not been accumulated.

Now is this also true for people with an anger problem? More to come…

For more information on the upcoming Montreal Anger Management Groups

Contact Dr. Bita 514-999-2482, info@drbita.com

By Erwin Paydar, Blogger at Clinique Dr. Bita

MONTREAL ANGER MANAGEMENT GROUP

 

MONTREAL ANGER MANGEMENT GROUP

Is your ANGER controlling you?

Do you get easily irritated?

Is your relationship suffering because of your explosive outbursts?

Is your ANGER causing problems at work?

If so, then the Anger Management Groups can help you better manage and control your ANGER before it controls YOU!

How You Will Benefit:

Learn what is anger

Recognize how anger impacts your overall well-being; mind and body

Differentiate between Aggression and Assertion

Replace Aggression with Assertion

Identify anger provoking thought patterns

Gain control of your feelings

Learn how to express your feelings

Identify anger pay-offs

Learn relaxation techniques

Early Bird Registration Discount if you register by April 02, 2012

To Register or to obtain more information please contact info@drbita.com or call us at 514-999-2482

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