GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK
If you suffer from fatigue at period time, your body will be letting you know how much rest you need and, if you’re extremely tired, insisting that you take it. The trouble is that so many women feel compelled to make the effort to go on working even when they are tired. We shop in the lunch hour, or work through the tea break to oblige somebody. It may seem noble, but it isn’t sensible. I have a sneaking feeling that this willingness to sacrifice ourselves goes right back to the attitudes we imbibed when young. Little boys are usually told to ‘stand up for themselves’ and ‘be a man’. Little girls are usually expected to help with the housework and told not to ‘make a fuss’. Standing up for your rights may seem unfeminine if you have grown up feeling that a woman’s role is to serve and be unselfish. You are lucky if you’ve grown up in a household where boys and girls both help with the housework, because you’ll be more likely to insist on your rights at work. A woman needs her rest breaks just as much as a man does, and at period time she needs them even more. So take all the rest you’re entitled to, sit down whenever you can and make sure you eat a meal in your lunch break. And if you are one of those girls who usually spend the lunch hour window shopping, give it a miss for those few crucial days when you’re low — however tempting the windows maybe.
Lack of balance may make you inaccurate, which can be a great nuisance whether you’re a supervisor, managing director or a typist; indeed in any job that requires detailed and painstaking acuracy. You can help yourself by making sure that you aren’t tense when you’re working and that you deliberately do everything more slowly. Take a few minutes to relax before you begin work and breath in a lower gear. If you feel yourself rushing, check that you haven’t tensed up again. Your neck, shoulders and hands are often the first parts of your body to show stress in this way, particularly if your work involves a lot of writing. And if you notice your mistakes and start to panic because you’re doing so badly, don’t forget what a help relaxation and breathing in a lower gear can be if you’re in a flap. If you are the boss, it’s simpler to do; but if you work for someone else it might be a good idea to let him or her know what you’re doing, and why, so that he or she will realize that you’re not slacking, merely sacrificing speed for efficiency, just for a few days.
Many women find that an approaching period makes them very forgetful. Their minds ‘go woolly’. If that’s your problem, take a fellow sufferer’s advice and get into the habit of writing yourself a list of all the jobs you have to attend to, and pin it up where it will catch your eye.
People like telephonists, actresses or teachers, who use their voices a lot during their work, are more liable to suffer from throat infections or laryngitis during the run up to their periods. Obviously it makes good sense to ensure that you’re eating well and getting enough rest when you’re vulnerable, because that will give you more of a chance to fight off infection. But it also helps if you can pitch your voice a little lower than normal. We tend to speak up, in every sense of the word, when we want to be heard and if you have pitched your voice too high, that will put your throat and vocal chords under unnecessary strain. If your face, neck or throat are tense, that’s another source of strain, so don’t forget to relax them, and to keep checking that they stay relaxed.
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Для начала, хотелось бы сказать, что гипертония и гипертензия – синонимы, обозначающие одно заболевание, которое в свою очередь делится на два вида: первичная и вторичная гипертензия.