Stress is the leading cause of various illnesses, and today stress if becoming one of the largest killers in the world. The first thing you need to be aware of before you can work to live longer, healthier, and happier, is the signs of stress.
Knowing the signs can help you fight back, and win the nasty battle. Stress includes early warnings (Prevention time), mental symptoms, emotional symptoms, physiologic or physical symptoms, and behavioral symptoms.
The Signs:
Prevention Time:
When you start to feel irritable often, and your patience is thin you are walking on the fine lines of stress. Often the irritability moves to edgy feelings, uptight or tension, and aggressive behaviors. The person may snap each time someone speaks to them, thus acting out angrily.
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The aggressiveness turns to oversensitivity, which leads to easiness in taking offense against what others say and do, as well the person will blame others for his or her problems, and often express moodiness.
The mind thinks pessimistically, which turns to a feeling of tiredness and restlessness. At this point stress increases, which leads to inability to sleep, overeating, or under eating. The feelings increase to changes in diet, which often leads to unhealthy eating. The person may start to depend on alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes to cope. The feeling brings in nausea, upset stomach, constipation, and/or diarrhea.
The symptoms increase to nervousness, twitching, and form into habits such as biting the nails, pulling hair, itching, or jiggling the knees.
If you notice one or more of these signs, it is time to take action now. You can start with exercise, diet, and socialization to avoid further complications.
Mental Signs:
If the signs go unnoticed, or left without attention, mental signs develop, which include inability to concentrate. In turn the person forgets often. The person may feel 150
confused often, and find it hard to make easy decisions. The perspective follows pursuit, i.e. the person is unable to think clearly, which leads to obsession. The person will feel a nagging sensation, thus stressing over time. The signs lead to mental burnouts or exhaustion.
If you are at this level, again exercise, diet, and supplements can help you reduce stress. You may also want to seek professional help.
Emotional Signs;
Once the signs appear, and the mental indicators develop the emotional response begins to decline. Rather, the emotions will act out by showing increasing levels of panic attacks and anxiety. The emotions will strike by diminishing the self-esteem, and will move to depression and pessimistic thinking. You feel hopeless.
The emotions then move to feelings of anger, while harboring resentment. This makes the person moody, which forces tears to flow for no apparent reason. The person will find it hard to laugh, and will undergo frequent nightmares. At this point you need immediate help. While I am not against mental health services, I can say these people lack wisdom and experience in many lands, thus 151
walk with precaution when seeking mental help. Get out of the house more, exercise, and diet, which will help you, fight the emotional stimulus.
Physical signs:
Once the emotional responses develop showing signs of stress, the body will experience agony. This is where health problems start to show. The muscular fatigue and tension makes it difficult to think, which adds additional stress. The body will start to feel aches in the back, shoulders, and neck. (Chiropractic Services has proven to reduce stress stemming from physical signs of stress) Once the body aches, the eyes start to feel tired.
The muscles begin to twitch, especially near the corner of the eyes. Your mouth feels dry, and often your jaw will feel locked. The palms begin to sweat, and the fingers feel cool.
You start to experience heartburn and indigestion, as well as feeling the need to urinate more often.
The signs continue to bladder infections, and move on to you feel breathless. Once you feel breathlessness, your breathing starts too erratic or hyperventilates. The heart begins to palpitate, and finally you feel headaches and frequent colds taking over your soul.
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The problems increase, since you start to gain or lose weight, and finally the libido feels lost and its impotency has blundered. We now have serious risks of disease. Still, there is more to come.
Behavioral signs:
Now that your mind and body has lost control, you begin to lash out in anger while showing aggression. (Criminal-based potential) You begin talking without cease, since the thoughts are racing like cars around the India 500. With talking excessively, you begin to cut others off who are speaking. You show nervous habits, which include tapping the fingers, pulling the hair, biting the nails, or jiggling the knees. The only outing you see at this time is to consume yourself in work; you become a workaholic, and often feel absenteeism from the rest of the world.
This brings us to isolation. You start to withdraw socially, and move toward neglecting personal hygiene. You now have a serious problem, since you develop obsessive-compulsive behaviors, which include excessive hand washing, monitoring the doors and windows often and so forth. If your problems have escalated to this level, you need mental health now. It’s time to take the steps to reduce stress.
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