There is a range of courses and services in the community as well as any number of private practitioners of different orientations. Make a careful choice but make a start. This sense of urgency may be expressed as preoccupation or it may be projected into other situations at home, on the road or elsewhere. This sense of urgency may escalate to a feeling of anxiety with the attendant adrenaline effects of 'fight or flight'. Alternatively, other symptoms may arise such as headache, irritable bowel, substance abuse, including alcohol, marijuana and other drug use.
Situational stress is the feelings generated in the situation.
This may occur on the way to work as traffic blocks our progress. It may occur at the workplace as the tasks, problems and crises delay our progress through the day. This sense of pressure may rise to a higher and higher level of frustration that may be expressed as irritation or anger. All these emotions are capable of interfering with interpersonal relationships, concentration, productivity and personal well-being, bringing us to the third stage of the stress reaction. Reactive stress is a result of our escalating response to the situational stress.