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Many health care professionals consider stress as one of the fundamental reasons for illnesses such as cancer and heart attack.
Others have already proved that humans under stress are more vulnerable and not resistant to trivial diseases such as simple flu.
Numerous couples all around the world and especially Europe and USA are struggling in having their own babies because of stress.
More than 60% of all men on this planet suffer the pains of inflamed hemorrhoids the main reasons for which are the work under pressure and the inability of meeting numerous tight deadlines.
Stress may accumulate slowly so it may be difficult to notice it and if not relieved it may seriously affect your overall health.
For instance usual daily routines such as driving might turn out to be constant sources of stress, which slowly and persistently affect our physical and emotional state.
Thus stress accumulates day by day and the physical effects of stress may show up unnoticed by you.
Let’s now have a look at some of the most frequent physical effects of stress:
Aggression
This is an emotional state of anger towards you, another person or sometimes towards the whole world. Usually you can assess this state as wrong but you can not stop it. It is stronger than you and keeps manifesting day after day.
Apathy
This is a feeling that you don’t care about anything and you don’t want to do anything. The apathetic person is not interested in the events around or in the future and can not do anything to protect themselves in case of a danger.
Guilt
This is a feeling which comes when we have already done or want to do something which we classify as wrong. Often the thought which results in guilt might be unconscious such as: “If I was more careful I would be so rude to Jim this morning”.
Numbness
Sometimes as a result of stress you can not feel anything in a particular part of your body – legs, arms… They just do not obey to your orders.
Headaches
Headaches might be caused by different reasons, one of them being chronic overwork and stress. In addition tensions and deep disappointments can also result in stress and terrible headaches. Find out more about stress headaches and how to deal with them.
Hot and Cold Waves
This is a feeling of hot or cold in turns irrelevant of what the temperature of the air is. First you feel hot and immediately afterwards cold.
Depression
Depression is a state in which you are sad and feel that you can not enjoy anything because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant. Present and future look so dark and obscure resulting in suspicions and fears suppressing the pleasure from the usual simple things.
Diarrhea
The state of guts is painful and often causes diarrhea as a result of stress. The guts can not be controlled and this happens with no obvious reason.
Sweating
Pumping sweat for no reason even if it is cold. The sweating is not caused by extensive physical work. It starts from palms and armpits and can show up on face and the whole body.
Tingle
You have a slight stinging feeling in the arms, fingers, legs or toes. Sometimes the feeling is like you have thousands of needles stuck in your legs…
Nightmares
Those are the bad dreams you often have. Some people dream exactly the same dream many times, which might result in states of chronic fears and depression.
Bad mood
Bad mood and lack of mood at all are the slighter forms of apathy and depression. They are not so unpleasant and usually manifest as unwillingness to talk and share or indifference towards any undertakings of the team.
Tension
This is the feeling coming with the strong will to do something even if it is not so clear what exactly. It comes because you are ready to do something but at this very moment you either can not or do not have the resources needed.
Inability to focus
This feeling is similar to forgetting facts for short period of time. You know that something has just gone through your mind but can not recollect it. It is there but you can not use it immediately… Or you listen to somebody and until he finishes his sentence you have already forgotten the beginning.
Low self esteem
This is the feeling that you are good for nothing and can not do anything of true value. All others look better to you and more skillful to do their job.
A sense of vomiting
You constantly want to vomit and often do not want to eat. Sometimes you just have the feeling that you will vomit straight away.
Irritability
You are easily annoyed and feel irritated by everything and by everybody. You think that everything you are told is wrong and think how come the person in front of you is so blind to not see it?!
Disappointment
It is the state of feeling rather sad because something has not happened or something is not as good as you hoped. Disappointment comes also when you have been denied something you want or need. It may come when you just feel helpless to do anything.
Loneliness
This is the unhappiness because you do not have any friends or do not have anyone to talk to. It is the feeling that you are isolated by your relatives, friends and colleagues. Often you feel that nobody cares about or understands your problems and worries.
Speeded heartbeat
You feel that your heart will break. With no reason your heart just beats so fast and hard that you feel something will happen to it. It is not necessary to have a particular threat.
Being worried
You keep thinking about problems of yours or about problems that might happen; you feel scared with no specific or direct threat. When you are worried you are also anxious, tensed, irascible; you can not focus, feel unhappy, can not sleep or have nightmares.
Tiredness
If you feel tired, you want to rest or sleep. Tiredness is natural consequence of long working hours or conflicts and is one of the most common physical effects of stress. If tiredness becomes chronic it is a sure signal that our body can not restore effectively from stress.
Other usual physical effects of stress are aches and pains allover the body. Starting with backache, neck ache, stiff neck, muscle ache and ending with tight shoulders, chest pain, upset stomach, constipation the result is always the same – total discomfort and inability to focus even after persistent attempts for relaxation. The lack of focus dooms to failure any task we initiate.
Most of those are normal reactions of ours to changes in the surrounding environment. They become indicative physical effects of stress if they manifest persistently in the course of time and we can not restore completely to our normal physical condition.
