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Question: How do I cope with stress?

Answer: - Take deep breaths and slow down your breathing
- Slow down your movements or keep still to lower your heart rate
- Relax your muscles
- Look for negative and irrational thoughts and change them to more positive and constructive thoughts
- Look for positive thoughts and focus on them
- Use humor to modify stressful thoughts
- Change your environment
- Remove yourself from the stressful situation
- Distract yourself with pleasurable activities
- Identify the problem and look for a solution

(Source: Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia , 02 Dec 2020)

Source Link: http://www.myhealth.gov.my/en/stress-management/