Stress is becoming increasingly common in our daily life. There are a lot of significant reasons that support my insights into the matter at hand, but I will focus in on the most common reasons that are affecting our life; they are lack of money, family issues, and work stress. I will discuss each one in details.
Lack of money has been known to be one of the major causes of stress. Why is this? Actually, almost few people haven’t been stressed over money in any time. It came up that people would be under huge stress when they are not having enough money to buy their basic needs. For example, think about any low paid employee who is responsible to feed his family while in the same time he is responsible for number of expenses like, apartment rent, electricity bill, telephone bills, and a lot more, so he will not be able to pay everything on time, which put this person in huge pressure or sometimes it reaches depression or hopelessness. Lack of money is a serious problem in some countries, and governments should come up with new ways to solve this important issue.
Family is common cause of everyday stress. So how is this possible? One of the family issues that can cause stress is misunderstanding between family members. For instance, sometimes the husband has no time to discuss some important matters with his wife, but actually he is focusing in on something more important. Normally she would not understand why he is talking to her, sometimes she would feel that he is not interested in what she is saying, or she would think that he is ignoring her, but actually he was supposed to brush up on his monthly plan before discussing it with his boss tomorrow. Normally both of them were under stress. The husband feel stressful because he does not have enough time to complete the plan, and also would feel stress because he is not giving his family enough time. His wife would feel stressed because she thought that her husband is ignoring her. Other example, when they are expecting new baby, both of the parents would live stressfully at the beginning until they understand and used to the situation. Sometimes they feel that they are not ready for it, and sometimes the husband does not understand the changes of his wife’s hormones, which makes her moody and demanding too much. Actually some of the family problems are under control and some are not.
Work is one of the common reasons for stress; there are so many reasons explaining why workplace can cause stress. Culture change is one of the main causes of stress in the workplace; it is logically follows from this that differences in backgrounds can cause stress. Let us take for example new employee joined a company. Normally new employees are coming from different companies, which have different cultures or even different countries. I remember, once our company had recruited new American employee to work as production manager, his name was David. Mr. David came from different country and has different cultural background. He was discussing with me the difficulties that he is facing. He was telling me about the differences between the work at us and here in Saudi Arabia. Actually, he was stressful because of, different reasons. One of the reasons was working in non-English speaking workplace, So the communication between him and his employees normally not enough to deliver his ideas. Addition to this he was not able to get English reports explaining their daily work, which in return delay his reports to the top management. Actually it is really difficult situation to have language barriers and I think if people would come up with a common language that can be spoken and understood by the majority of workers in the workplace, this may solve the problem.
In conclusion, lack of money, family issues, and work issues are some of the main stressors affecting our life. The reaction to those stressors may differ from person to person, but in general all types of stress can harm our bodies, and may cause serious diseases. I think we have to admit that stress is playing major role in our lives, and we have to accept being stressed but we should learn how to control this stress, and how to learn from it. If we can convert the stress to a positive stress this would help us to do something better in our lives.
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