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Stress Management Boston
Stress can help you excel and thrive in tough situations, but too much stress can take its toll. If you are experiencing ongoing stress and are losing your ability to manage it on your own, then you need help – help from Back Bay Mental Health experts.
We offer resources, self-care practices, and support services to help you understand and reduce stress. We can help students who feel like they are burning out due to their workload or important exams get through those busy periods. If you are stressed and don’t feel like you can keep going, we can help you.
Don’t live life on that edge; instead, learn how to find balance with Back Bay Mental Health.
How Stress Affects Your Mental and Physical Health
Stress can affect your physical and mental health. Not only can it cause issues like burnout, but it can trigger more serious mental health problems like anxiety disorders or even depression.
Just a few of the ways that stress can affect your health include:
- It weakens your immune system
- Causes muscle tension
- It can cause you to grind your teeth
- Can result in ulcers
- Can cause headaches
- Can interrupt your sleep
We can help you learn how to recognize stressors and then work to teach you stress management techniques that go beyond tips like yoga. We can even help you understand and set limits. For example, sometimes, the best approach is to drop a course if your workload is too high or to set a strategy meeting with your supervisor to extend your deadlines.
With us, you’ll have a comprehensive support network, includeing access to therapists, group support, and holistic care.
Causes of Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are unique even amongst themselves. This means what causes mood disorders in one person might be very different from someone else.
You may develop mood disorders, for example, after experiencing trauma. Others might develop mood disorders due to genetic factors. Hormonal, chemical, and physical causes are also common when it comes to mood disorders.
You can learn more about the specific causes of your mood disorder by identifying the type of mood disorder that you have. Causes for depression, for example, tend to differ from premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
How We Can Help You Reduce Stress
We can help you reduce stress through multiple strategies. With our help, we can help you identify your individual needs, understand your stressors better, and build up strategies that work for your health with your very own personalized program.
Student? Start Our College Reduce Stress Program
We understand exactly how stressful being a student at any age can be. We can help teens deal with the stress of managing puberty alongside school, and we can help adults struggling with their courses.
Stress affects each person differently, and we understand that. That’s why we respond by providing you with a personalized program designed to help you build resilience and promote relaxation in your school and personal life.
Working Professional? Learn Our Stress Management Techniques
Stress can be prevalent at work. While sometimes the answer is simply to change jobs (no amount of relaxation techniques can help if you are constantly being pushed to your limit), most of the time, you can get help at Back Bay Mental Health. We can help you understand your symptoms and give you practical methods that help with reducing stress. These techniques can include resiliency training, deep breathing exercises, or employing other coping strategies based on your stress triggers and how you react to stress.
Parent? Let Us Help You Manage Your Stress
Being a parent (especially if you are also a student or working professional) can feel like you don’t get any breaks or time to cater to your well-being. Our intensive outpatient program* is available throughout the day and in the evenings. This way, we can work sessions into your daily life.
Stressed Due to Mental Health? We’re Here for You
If stress is just one of the symptoms of your problems, let us help. We can help you address the source of your stress. For example, if you are stressed because you struggle at work or school, but you qualify for ADHD treatment, then we can help you directly by addressing your ADHD struggles first.
Do You Qualify for Stress Management from Back Bay Mental Health?
We can help you with acute or chronic stress alike. Thanks to our range of psychological and holistic therapy options, we can help you reduce stress on multiple fronts. With us, you can learn how to cultivate positive thoughts, reduce stress through physical activity, and build resilience with training.
We start every treatment with an evaluation. We’ll use this time to understand what is affecting your health, identify what is afflicting you, and then use that information to build a personalized program for you.
Benefits of Our Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program*
We are the best resource to help you reduce stress and improve your brain health. We can help give you the tools, practice, and community you need to de-stress and build up your resiliency so that you can tackle stress in your life healthily and positively.