Symptoms Of Stress
Symptoms of Stress - Warning Signs of Stress
Stress Introduction
Stress is something that has become synonymous with our everyday life. Though everybody has problems, tragedies, challenges, and frustrations, being stressed for long time, and habitually can drain you out physically, as well as mentally. A stressed mind requires you to make certain adjustments in your attitude, your priorities, your life style, your habits and the way you respond to certain situations. However, when you fail to do so, for one or more occasion, you are stressed. Gradually, it becomes a part of your life and as medical practitioners say, stress is a disease that becomes chronic over a period of time.
Stress adds misery to your life, making you pessimist and negative in perception, and reacting negatively to different situations. The specific signs and symptoms of stress may vary from person to person; however, all symptoms are harmful for your health. It also affects your emotional well-being, and your relationships with others. Generally you can see and tell whether a person had been leading a happy and healthy life style or has been leading a stressful life. There are some common symptoms that are seen in most of the people who are under stress.
Symptoms Of Stress
The symptoms of stress are seen in one's body language, physical health, behavior and habits, and one's mindset as to how one responds in certain situations. One category of symptoms is related to one's intellectual self. The patient may experience memory loss, inability to make decisions, not able to concentrate, and the person is always in confused state of mind. You lose your power of judgment and are not objective in your approach to life.
Stress can lead to emotional drain of a person. Since you might have lost your judgment and ability of objective analysis of situations, you tend to be emotional. An emotionally stressed person becomes moody and hypersensitive to situations. Depression overpowers you and you are often angry. You lack confidence and are always looking for sympathy from near and dear ones. Since people with high level of emotional stress are moody, you may tend to laugh or cry in such situations where it is not required at all.
Apart from the mental effects, stress also weakens you physically. A person who is stressed and remains tense is not physically healthy. One of the most common symptoms of stress is frequent headache. You may have improper digestive system and a weak immunity. Your body loses strength to fight diseases and you can not sleep properly. Over a period of time, your body loses energy and you are easily fatigued. You may lose weight, or you gain weight astonishingly quickly, even without any change in your diet. Many a times, it develops into some serious disease such as chest pain, breathlessness and irregular heartbeat as well. You blood pressure will rise to above normal will stagnate there, almost permanently. This may lead to life threatening situations.
Stress leads to anxiety disorders and behavioral problems. You may suddenly notice yourself eating too less or eating too much. Same with you sleeping disorder; either sleeping too much, or not sleeping at all. Such patients like to remain isolated, and they overreact to emotional and confrontational situations. You may get used to alcohol or using drugs, thus further affecting your health. You get short-tempered. The situation where you are not comfortable or when you are nervous, nail biting and jaw grinding becomes a habit.
There can be some external factors that contribute to stress. If you notice a few of these symptoms of stress, consult a good doctor and communicate your behavioral changes. It is the job of your physician to identify the core reason of your stress and to guide you out of the situation.
Why Symptoms Of Stress Vary
Different people respond to same situations in different ways. Even if many people feel stressed because of same situation, the effects on them may vary - physically, mentally, and psychologically. For example, one can feel frustrated because one is not able to convince the colleague or spouse, and is stressed. The other may avoid conflict and still can be stressed. You can be stressed because of your relationships, some issue at your workplace, your neighbor, some social issues that you can not avoid, financial problem, handicap or a prolonged ailment. Stress symptoms vary because of one's education, upbringing, and the kind of social support system that one gets.
When you tend to avoid conflict because of stress, you develop withdrawal symptoms. You dislike social gatherings, parties, functions and meetings for the fear of conflict. However avoiding the situation further aggravates the problem. People around you should make an effort and support you to come out of this shell. First of all, it is important to understand that this is a medical problem. Next, one should try to understand the reasons that cause stress and then figure out options to overcome that.
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Can stress cause temporary Tinnitus?
As a first year college student I have experienced a large amount of stress throughout the first half of the year, and I have totally felt the effects.
First, I started to have racing thoughts at night
Second, those thoughts gave me sleeping troubles
After that developed a lack of interest in multiple things.
Then I noticed erectile dysfunction problems (and only being 18, that shouldn't happen)
A few days after the erectile problems I got a ringing in my right ear.
Then shortly my eating habits changed.
Now, I was stressed for maybe around 2 months so I am sure this are natural symptoms one would experience, but, my only question is if Tinnitus is common for stress?
I did visit an ENT and he told me that "He gets college kids all the time who have ringing, and its usually due from stress and later goes away".
So it must be stress because
A) I have no fluid in my ears
B) I am on no meds
C) I am young
D) I am hardly around loud noise
E) And I dont have an ear infection, and never had ear problems.
I understand that symptoms of stress take X amount days to leave, and I dont have sleeping troubles or Eating troubles anymore, so I think I am making progress.
However, I still have erectile dysfunction (which was one of the first symptoms I noticed), I still get small headaches, and I still have the ringing. But the ringing is nothing terrible (I cannot hear the ring in a bathroom with the toliet quietly running) And I really only hear it when there is dead silence and when I think about it, but as I said before; I believe everyday the ringing is slowly getting better. It just may take a few more days.
I was just looking for a second opinion.
Thanks
God Bless.
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Are all of these symptoms of stress?
Hiya,
I've been to the doctors like 5 times in the past 2 months with a variety of problems. I first went complaining that my veins, very suddenly, were much more apparent than usual, particularly in my hands, wrists, chest & feet. The doctor asked a few questions about how much I exercise and stuff but when he found out I have important exams coming up he immediately decided the veins were stress-related. I seen 3 other GPs (all different people but in the same clinic) and complained that my eyes were getting sharp pains and tired more often, that I've had odd movements in my abdomen and most recently that I've been having the most weird muscle spasms/twinges. These spasms occur mostly around the knee area of both legs, into my thighs, and they are constant but move around slightly so they won't be focused in just one area, and the odd time at night when falling asleep I'll jolt awake from a big spasm of just my whole body. All of them claim that the symptoms are as a result of stress and that once my exams are over my body should go back to normal.
The thing is I really don't buy that stress can make me feel as unhealthy and just plain weird as I do. Plus there's the fact that I don't conciously feel stressed out, I've never been one to stress easily particularly not over exams.
Could anything else be causing the symptoms or are the docs right enough?
Thanks.
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