Stress is highly individualized and depends on variables such as the novelty, rate, intensity, duration, or personal interpretation of the input, and genetic or experiential factors. Both acute and chronic stress can intensify morbidity from anxiety disorders. One person's fun may be another person's stressor. For an example, panic attacks are more frequent when the predisposed person is exposed to stressors.

     

      Most stress-reduction techniques have their greatest utility as elements of a prevention plan that attempts to raise one's threshold to anxiety-provoking experiences.Recognition of the causes and sources of the threat or distress; education and consciousness raising.

   Relationships identified for support, help, reassurance Removal from  the threat or stressor; managing the stimulus. Relaxation through techniques

    Critical Incident Stress Management is an adaptive short term helping process that focuses solely on an immediate and identifiable problem to enable the individual(s) affected to return to their daily routine more quickly and with a lessened likelihood of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.


 

 
  Stress-reduction strategies can be helpful to many stressed/anxious person. However, many anxious persons cannot concentrate enough to use such strategies effectively for acute relief.

      Critical Incident Stress Management is designed to help people deal with their trauma one incident at a time by allowing the individual to talk about the incident when it happens without judgment or criticism.

 The emphasis is always on keeping people safe and returning them quickly to more normal levels of functioning.