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Dealing with stress

  • 20-07-2006 10:07pm
    #1
    Dermington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I know this belongs in the PI forum but I wanted to ask here first to see if any of you can help me out.

    My dad is in the process of downsizing his legal practice as a result of changing the kind of business he is doing.

    At the moment he is working 12 hour days 6-7 days a week. He is clearly very over stressed and has been since September or October last year. He is 51 next September. Visibly he has aged a good 7-10 years (in my eyes) and appears to be constantly out of energy because of the amount of work he has at hand.

    He always ate relatively well, drinks on one or two occasions in a week, usually a friday and saturday night. He is not overweight but was recently told his colesterol was high for a man of his age. I put this down to a serious decline in the level of physical activity he takes part in over the last year. He used to be an avid hill walker and a gardener but currently does not appear to have any time to himself. I'm pushing him to start hillwalking again with me as we have a house in Kerry and its his favourite place to go walking.

    What I'm asking is can anyone suggest anything that would help to boost his energy levels in the mean time so that he at least feels better.

    Thanks,

    Dermot.


Comments

  • #2
    Reyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Reyman


    All sounds very dangerous for a guy over 50! You're right to be concerned. He's risking everything.

    Forget the exercise etc., he needs to get out of that job and quickly. Stress does'nt take any prisoners and he'll go under very soon if he doesn't change his base environment.

    Non-fitness advice for a change!


  • #3
    Dermington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Dermington


    Well the man is a workhorse and has been all his life. He is doing what he is doing so he can get out of working like this but its currently the halfway mark effectively and its catch 22 it seems.

    His own father had a heart attack at 58 from smoking/working and subsequently died from lung cancer, his mother died from leukemia and everyone in the last 3 years who has died in our family has died from cancer so I'm also trying to make sure he is looking after himself long term too. Hew doesn't smoke and never has but I can see him having heart problems at the very least if this continues.

    Add to this my mother died when I was 16 and you have one very protective son. Which is weird for me because I have very little contact with him in general because we both work and live a distance apart enough for it to be inconvenient to meet up regularly.

    Anyway thats all history but I would be interested to know if there were any things he could add to his diet or what kind of weekend exercise he could take up in order to relieve some stress.


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