Multicultural Stress Management

Abstract

Stress is a specific response by the body to a stimulus which tends to disturb the normal physiological equilibrium. Stress management skill can be culturally different due to the different parenting styles that is more popular in a culture. Diet is also related to stress as the mind and body are interrelated. Some evidences shown that staple diet had given rise to Parkinson or Alzheimer. Thus, nutrition and psychotherapy need to go together for effective stress management. Much evidence has supported the use of Ketogenic diet to manage stress. Psychotherapy, particularly schema therapy could manage stress through focusing on creating disassociation between our own vulnerability and our internalized critical voice. US recently focused on balancing imbalanced neurotransmitters in reducing stress symptoms. Lab tests can help detect the levels of our neurotransmitters and identify any imbalance of individual neurotransmitters contributing to stress related disorders, which are now available in Malaysia.