Your heart feels like it is pounding out of your chest! The very act of breathing right now is a momentous challenge! Welcome to the panic attack when fear is grabbing you by your throat!
Even if people do not have issues with anxiety, panic and fear, such intense emotions are becoming regular household thieves stealing the wellbeing of individuals particularly in this economy.
For many people, stress is overwhelming and the assembly of straws of credit is not floating them like a bridge to dry land free from the torrent waves of consumer debt. Instead, a rising cost of living is taking out those bridges and sending people into an emotional free-fall.
Stress…
For many people, the systems they work in are not sustainable and with mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, or even organization strain, the way they worked in the past is not fairing well. The elasticity of a paycheck and the ability to make autonomous decisions has snapped.
Many people are being micromanaged at work with organizational reconfigurations and finding that the pay check that used to float them is barely enough as they are financially empty at the end of each month.
More stress…
With the stress of economic instability, political turbulence, organizational change, and trying to do more with less, people are snapping and this causes strain on relationships. Emotional implosion occurs when individuals shut off and shut down to emotionally flat line as well as seek comfort in escapism like technology or even doom scrolling social media. Some individuals may even reach towards alcohol that serves as a big volume dial in their minds that temporarily reduces the emotional noise of stress only to create compounding issues later as the blaring blasts of anxiety thoughts consume the mind once again after the alcohol has worn off.
Meanwhile, emotional explosion occurs when the pressure becomes so big that individuals are on edge, have little patience, and are reactive in their responses. Simple conversations in relationships can now have amplified fuel from background stress as talks lead to volatility. The art of conversation has degraded into an emotional minefield and breading ground of resentments.
More and more stress…
Where is all this stress coming from? Yes, the world is in a time of transformative change. Old systems are breaking down and ways of doing things are changing. What was sustainable before is no longer viable.
The heart of stress comes from tunnel vision, when we feel backed into an emotional corner with very little self-agency.
As people, we do not do well when we feel trapped in our circumstances.
The opportunity is to rise into an emotional helicopter view and get out of tunnel vision. Shift from what isn’t going right to what is going right and look for opportunity.
This ability to rise above our troubling circumstances and to “be in it” not “of it”, takes a toolbox of skills involving self-regulation (a calm mind), perspective (the ability to see opportunity) and self-care (the need to keep yourself strong) so you can roll up your sleeves, lean into challenges, and kick courage into the center of your life as you establish victory!
With tunnel vision, we focus on big feelings and emotions as we get lost in negative thought spirals. The opportunity is to rise above the spirals and get perspective.
About the Author:
With 24 years of counselling experience and extensive knowledge of psychology, Dr. Catherine Patterson-Sterling provides you with this toolbox of skills through youtube shorts, tiktoks, memes, blogs, and online resources. With a deep understanding of forensics, Dr. Patterson-Sterling can support you in understanding the motivations of other people while being able to manage office politics, narrcissists in your life, toxic relationships, stress pressures, and more.
Website: https://www.savvylifenow.com
Resources: https://www.savvylifenow.com/resources
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