Psychological stress help people to temporarily release the stress and become more prepared to deal with problems later on. These methods deal with stress by an individual literally taking action, or withdrawing. There is an alternative method to coping with stress, in which one works to minimize their anxiety and stress in a preventative manner. If one works towards coping with stress daily, the feeling of stress and the ways in which one deals with it as the external event arises becomes less of a burden. Suggested strategies to improve stress management include: Depending on the situation, all of these coping mechanisms
Epigenetics of anxiety and stress-related disorders triggered PTSD. "Nr3c1" is a gene that encodes a glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and contains many GR response elements. Early life stress increases methylation of the 1 promoter in this gene (or the 1 promoter analog in rodents). Because of its role in stress response and its link to early life stress, this gene has been of particular interest in the context of PTSD and has been studied in PTSD of both combat veterans and civilians. In studies involving combat veterans, those who developed PTSD had lowered methylation of the "Nr3c1" 1 promoter compared to those who did not develop PTSD.