Dr. Mort Orman here, and in the second part of my three-part series this week on the true costs of stress in our lives, I’m going to focus on Family Costs, Relationship Costs, and Happiness Costs.
It’s one thing to have stress diminish our career and financial success, as I pointed out it can in the first article in this series.
It’s quite another to consider how stress can negatively affect our family life, our relationships with others, and the overall happiness we experience.
Whenever we get stressed, we can bring our stress home with us and unleash it on our spouse, living partner, kids or other relatives.
This, in turn, can cause tension in our relationships, which then adds another set of stressful problems we now have to contend with.
And then, the more we feel stressed, the more difficult it can become to feel happy, satisfied and care free.
Our self-confidence can go down, we can get discouraged about not being able to control our emotions, or not being able to control some of our other reactions, and we can easily lose touch with much of the joy that life has to offer us.
These Are NOT Insignificant Costs
Once again, these are costs we don’t like to focus on, and we don’t usually enjoy thinking about them.
Nor are they insignificant costs.
So please don’t get angry with me for bringing them up.
As difficult as it might be to confront these serious costs, if we don’t acknowledge them from time to time, we can fall into the trap of deluding ourselves that we aren’t really paying these prices for remaining frequently stressed.
Believe me, I did not choose to write about the high costs of stress this week in order to depress you or to stress you even more.
I wrote about them to have you think about them seriously.
The more we tally up all the costs that stress extracts from us, the more likely it will be that we finally decide to take action—to do something meaningful to help reduce our stress.
The truth is most people are not sufficiently motivated to deal with their stress effectively.
Either they don’t believe anything can be done about it, or they don’t keep searching until they find solutions that work.
Either way, if you force yourself to take an honest look at what stress really costs you (and what it will continue to cost you if you don’t decide to defeat it), this will hopefully spur you into action that will end up benefitting both you and those you love.
To your health, happiness and success,
Dr. Mort Orman, M.D.
International Speaker, Author And Founder Of The Stress Mastery Academy | http://DocOrman.com
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