Mental and physical stress can creep into your life like a bad rash and spread into all areas but you can stop the spread by doing just one simple thing.
Anyone else feel like the pandemic has caused an insurgence of completely unnecessary work video meetings? All the meetings, all the time. It's almost too much.
If you're a person who never says no, then you know the rush of anxiety you feel when you finally do and all of the ways you question your decision afterward.
Men and women have different stress triggers and the way we deal with stress is also completely different. Here's why you might really be more stressed than him.
You only have so much control over the amount of stress dumped on your shoulders, but there are some simple things you can do to give your mental health a lift.
Remember when we all wished that we could work from home in our sweats, our hair up in a true "I just rolled out of bed" messy bun while typing with one finger, juggling a bowl of cereal in the other hand, and glancing up at the television from time to time...
When you're texting someone, the worst thing that can happen is when a spam call comes in and you have to stop what you're doing until the call stops ringing so you can resume what you were doing on your phone.