What is National Stress Awareness Day?
National Stress Awareness Day (NSAD) is organised by the International Stress Management Association UK (ISMAUK)
- a registered charity whose aim is to advance the education of the public in the field of biological stress.
Funded by a wide range of sources from qualified stress management practitioners registered with ISMAUK, right
through to Government funded bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive, the charity also works with other
outside organisations that have an interest in stress and stress reduction.
NSAD aims to help people by highlighting the many coping strategies and sources of help available to people who
want to reduce the harmful effects of stress in their lives.
Now in its 9th year, NSAD is a firm fixture in the UK calendar on the first Wednesday of November. Stress
can be brought on by many things and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) cite for example that work-related
stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health and that each case of stress-related ill
health leads to an average of 30.9 working days lost.
As a charity, ISMAUK has a very clear vision and mission. That is:
Vision
To advance the education of the public in the field of biological stress
Mission
Highly accessible by the general public, National Stress Awareness Day aims to raises awareness of stress together with open access to the many coping strategies and sources of
help available to people who want to reduce the harmful effects of stress in their lives.