The Effects of Stress Can Be Severe

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By Charlene Sim

Published: December 25, 2009

While each individual is unique in how they respond to the effects of stress, there are certain major stresses in life, which if all occur together, can send a healthy person into a depressive state or create the inability to cope with the simple things in life. A marriage, birth of a child, moving to another place or loss of close contact with previously connected family and friends can all bring about sudden stress symptoms. Past ways of coping, plus one’s emotional makeup will predict how one will be affected by nervous tension and strain.

There are normally bodily impacts related to a great deal of stress that will become apparent. Your immune system will usually weaken since so much of your energy is used up dealing with whatever is resulting in the stress, thus making it very easy to become ill. People will generally get aches and pains, have irregular bowel movements, and lose a great deal of energy and stamina. These symptoms of stress tend to be the most apparent and can typically be treated easily with a bit of rest and a reduction in stress levels.

Effects of stress can also be emotional in nature. It is very common to see people who are typically calm and level headed snap at others and become irritable very easily when they are coping with stress. Feeling overwhelmed and depressed are common reactions, as is moodiness. When you start to have emotional responses to stress you can end up causing long-term damage in relationships with others. Even when your actions are a result of stress levels, people around you may not be so accepting and can forever alter how you are perceived by others.

Other effects of an excessive amount of stress can continue much longer than the end of whatever led to the stress in the first place, including behavioral symptoms. Here you can see your eating habits changing, as you eat too much or too little, your sleep habits can suffer also, and you can form nervous behaviors that aren’t always acute in nature, but that do not appear normal to others. These signs of stress are the most difficult to stop as your body grows used to them. In worst case scenarios, powerful addictions to substances such as alcohol, cigarettes and drugs can be formed.

You can take control over the effects of stress by working on what is causing the stress and dealing with controlling those issues. Usually, you will feel less stress once the cause is gone or minimized. Then it is time for your body and mind to recover. This can take a short or a long time depending again on your immune system and your mental health. Be aware of what you are doing in response to stress and take steps to ensure that your responses are as healthy as possible so that no long-term damage is caused.

When your stress level is high it causes damage to your body, your mind and your mental health. So you have to find the right stress management tips to get relief from stress and thus reduce the damage.

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