Stress and relaxation: mental health topics

Stress is our body’s completely natural reaction to high pressure and demands or threats from our environment, and it enables us to perform at a high level and survive dangers. It can even prove motivating and help us achieve things in our daily life.

However, if stress becomes constant in your everyday life, you can develop stress symptoms. In the long run, these often have serious health consequences, such as cardiovascular disease, burnout, susceptibility to infections, depression, metabolism disorders and obesity. In today’s fast-paced world, it is therefore important to recognise stress at an early stage and to learn different stress management strategies.

Find out everything you need to know about stress and how you can protect yourself from health problems by using relaxation techniques and stress management strategies effectively.

Stress

• Resilience
• Cortisol and signs of stress

Mental health

• Serotonin