The number of days people are absent from work due to stress related illnesses is increasing year on year. However, with developments in technology, life should be easier for many of us than in the past. What then are the main causes of stress in today's society?

Most people have their working methods
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to deal with nervous situations or anxiety, and
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the majority, I
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handle it on my own.
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fear, when I was 10 years old, I used to sleep with my mom, and she always watched horror movies. Even though I was scared, she has never turned off
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, so I told myself that it is unreal and something like that cannot hurt me. Those affirmations helped me a lot so that I am not scared of horror movies or quests either. To be exact, the idea of my method is self-hypnosis; when you keep repeating phrases
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friends. The result of these discussions is to reduce my stress level.
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, they give me some useful tips and share their experience,
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makes me feel safe and calm because I am not the only one who
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.
Furthermore
, when you speak it out, the difficulties become miserable.
To sum up
, both of my tricks are based on psychology since it all comes from our brain that forces us to feel
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However
, I haven’t understood it for a short period of time, I needed my whole life to determine my algorithm of
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lifestyle.
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