Stress

Stress: Causes, Symptoms and Support

By nationalstressawarenessday January 7, 2021 May 30, 2022 10,838

What are the causes of stress and what help is out there? With so many pressures in today’s bustling and fast-paced society, both your mind and body can take the brunt of it all. Many of us complain about being stressed, but what really is stress, what are the symptoms …

What is National Stress Awareness Day?

National Stress Awareness Day (NSAD) is organised by the International Stress Management Association UK (ISMA^UK) – a registered charity whose aim is to advance the education of the public in the field of biological stress. Funded by a wide range of sources from qualified stress management practitioners registered with ISMA^UK, right through to Government funded bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive, the charity also works with other outside organisations that have an interest in stress and stress reduction.

NSAD aims to help people by highlighting the many coping strategies and sources of help available to people who want to reduce the harmful effects of stress in their lives.

Now in its 9th year, NSAD is a firm fixture in the UK calendar on the first Wednesday of November. Stress can be brought on by many things and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) cite for example that work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health and that each case of stress-related ill health leads to an average of 30.9 working days lost.

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Stress: Causes, Symptoms and Support

Stephen Fry

Rt Hon Jeffrey Donaldson – MP MLA

Cary Cooper

Chris Rowe – Head of Stress
Programme, HSE

Angela Clow – Vice President of
ISMA and Professor at Westminster University

Barrington Pheloung – Film
& TV music composer

Stephen Sidebottom – Head of
HR, Nomura International plc

Kate Bradford – Director of Projects,
Disney Corp

Senator Feargal Quinn –
Dublin, Ireland

Baroness Howells of St David’s, OBE

Sharon Marshall – Journalist &
Presenter for ITV1’s This Morning

Greg Phillips – Devon County Council

Neil Mullarkey