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We all have headaches from time to time, but do you know why you have those headaches? If you just get a headache from time to time, once every couple of of weeks or so, it is not much of a problem, but if you fear your next headache, then you almost certainly do have a problem.

Tension headaches are the most common and tension can be related to stress, but there are also purely stress-related headaches. This sort of headache can also be driven away by a tablet or two from the medicine cabinet, but it is better to get rid of the reason for the headache. Attack the reason not the symptom. The remainder of this piece is about what to do with the various kinds of stress headaches.

Basically, a stress headache occurs once the obstacles that are presented to you engulf your ability to cope with them. Some people get on well with stress others deal with stress less well. Some people even prosper on it and others have taught themselves how to de-stress rapidly.

When a person comes across stressful situations, a little bit of our mental resistance against stress is worn away. This is fine and is normal, but then as other stresses happen there is less and less defence left to carry on. Trying to cope whilst you are starting to feel weaker and weaker will often bring on a stress headache.

Another reason why a stress headache is the most common form of headache, is because other forms of headache can bring on a stress headache as well. The good news is that almost all types of headaches can be prevented or cured and a stress headache falls into this category.

There are, naturally pharmaceutical medicines to treat headaches and there are natural, home remedies too but there are also non-medicinal methods of treating a stress headache. These other methods include: cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy and physical therapy.

These methods can be learned from books, night school classes, the local library, the Internet or by arrangement with your clinic or GP. It is well-worth learning how to use these techniques because taking drugs or treatments can lead to headaches anyway.

Cognitive Therapy: seeks to ?redirect? stress headaches. In this procedure, the patient is taught to recognize what begins the stress symptoms and what the onset of a stress headache feels like. Then they are taught how to modify their response to these conditions.

Behavioural Therapy: is a way of changing your life style to prevent the incidence of a stress headache. For example, numerous people reach for comfort foodstuffs or alcohol once they become stressed, but it may be better for you to do something else, |when you feel a stress headache coming on.

Physical Therapy: tries using bio-feedback responses, so that when a stress headache begins, the sufferer tries using relaxation techniques (perhaps yoga) in order to reduce their stress and possibly prevent the stress headache from taking place. Meditation, deep breathing and prayer are some of the other techniques that can be tried.

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Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/03/06/stress-headaches/

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