How To Tell Someone Else They Are Making You Stressed

How do you tell someone else they are making you stressed?

If somebody is actually making you stressed, you have to deal with it. The only way to deal with it is to sit them down and talk to them. Communication is a key to this. So what you need to do is think about is in what way are they making me stressed? How is that affecting me? Now it could be something you could deal with personally. It might just be that if you change the way you think about it and think that's just them, and you depersonalize it. That in itself could make you feel less stressed. On the other hand, if you need to sit down with that person, work out what you're going to say and then just say: “Look, I've just got something to talk about at the moment. You seem really under a lot of pressure now and one of the things that's tending to happen is it's spilling out over me and I wondered if we could just talk about that and see if we could work something out.” What you want to do is make it friendly. You don't want to go: “You're making me stressed.” Because then they're likely to go: “You think you've got stress, you want to live my life.” So you'll get a confrontation going. If you can do it in such a way that you show some understanding, but are also very clear about the way in which they are stressing you, then you have a chance to sort it out.