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Living with a long-term disease like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be stressful and have a big effect on your mood. We all have our good days and bad days, but when you live with IBD, some days can be worse than others. Here are a few tips to help you identify your various moods, and more importantly, stay in the right headspace.
Managing stress starts with identifying the stressors in your life. It is a good idea to start a journal to record events and places that may have made you feel stressed. This can help you understand your stressors, so that you can avoid similar situations in the future or develop coping mechanisms. Your stress journal could look something like this:
List the things that caused you stress today. How did you react to the event? What did you do in response to the stressful event?