 Hello, I am Dr. Manishree. I am a psychiatrist at Manipal Hospital, Seljapur. I will be talking about stress management. What is stress? Have you ever felt that it's being very difficult to manage the things day in and day out? It's just getting too much. It is leading to low mood or irritability to us that is called as stress. Why should one manage stress? It will have an impact on the physical health. In a way, it might lead to hypertension or to diabetes or any other heart issues. It might lead to mental health issues like depression or anxiety. How do one cope up with stress? Coping up with stress is very important to halt its progression into depression or into the anxiety. Few of them would cope up the stress in a different way. So one can be divided into the healthy strategies and the unhealthy ways of coping. Healthy ways of coping is talking about the stress or trying to find the solution to it by talking to the other people. It can be looking at the issue in a most positive way. Seeking a help from a mental health expert if it is getting very excessive. On the other way round, it is very important to avoid the unhealthy ways by getting addicted to alcohol intake or smoking or getting into canopies basically. After that, trying to go away from the issue, blaming the self about the issue or being in a denial about the same. Try to avoid all of this. Try to deal the stress in the right way at the right time so that you can decrease its halt into any of the mental illnesses like depression or into the anxiety. Thank you.