Effects of Stress on your Body
Physical Signs of Stress
The real truth about your body is that is was designed to experience stress and it can be very hard to avoid. When you are unable to revive yourself from this stress, you enter a state of "distress". This is usually when you begin to feel the negative physical effects stress can have. These symptoms can be headaches, elevated blood pressure, trouble falling asleep, chest pain, etc. Stress can also have a major affect upon the Musculoskeletal system by tensing up your muscles when your body is in fear or expects pain.
Causes of Stress
Has someone ever told you not to binge eat? Turns out, Binge Eating Disorder, or B.E.D., is often the cause of stress. Many people use food as a way to cope with stress, sadness, and anger. Here are some helpful tips if you turn to food when stressed according to helpguide.org:
Those are some typical signs that your stress it taking a toll on your body.
How to Realize your Stress is affecting you
According to healthline.com here are some first steps that your body takes when it's under stress -
" Stress can be triggered by the pressures of everyday responsibilities at work and at home. As you might expect, negative life events like divorce or the death of a loved one cause stress. So can physical illness. Traumatic stress, brought on by war, disaster, or a violent attack, can keep your body’s stress levels elevated far longer than is necessary for survival."
There are many different effects of stress including:
Physical Signs of Stress
The real truth about your body is that is was designed to experience stress and it can be very hard to avoid. When you are unable to revive yourself from this stress, you enter a state of "distress". This is usually when you begin to feel the negative physical effects stress can have. These symptoms can be headaches, elevated blood pressure, trouble falling asleep, chest pain, etc. Stress can also have a major affect upon the Musculoskeletal system by tensing up your muscles when your body is in fear or expects pain.
Causes of Stress
- Physical environments around you can raise your stress level. Traffic, noise (sirens keeping you up at night, a barking dog next door), and uncomfortable or unsafe living conditions can also cause stress.
- Family and relationships are common daily stressors. Marital disagreements, unhealthy relationships, rebellious teens, or caring for an ill family member or a child with special needs can all send stress levels skyrocketing.
- Work can be an ever-present source of stress. Work stress is caused by things such as job dissatisfaction, an exhausting workload, insufficient pay, office politics, and conflicts with your boss or co-workers.
- Life situations can cause stress. For example, poverty, financial pressures, discrimination or harassment, unemployment, isolation, and/or a lack of social support all take a toll on your daily quality of life.
- Major life changes such as the birth of a baby, a divorce, a career change or move can also place a lot of stress on you—even if the event itself is positive.
Has someone ever told you not to binge eat? Turns out, Binge Eating Disorder, or B.E.D., is often the cause of stress. Many people use food as a way to cope with stress, sadness, and anger. Here are some helpful tips if you turn to food when stressed according to helpguide.org:
- exercise
- meditate
- use sensory relaxation strategies
- take deep breaths
- Eat three meals a day, avoiding temptations
- Keep a Food Diary
- Listen to your body
- Get enough sleep (7.5 - 9 hours a day)
Those are some typical signs that your stress it taking a toll on your body.
How to Realize your Stress is affecting you
According to healthline.com here are some first steps that your body takes when it's under stress -
" Stress can be triggered by the pressures of everyday responsibilities at work and at home. As you might expect, negative life events like divorce or the death of a loved one cause stress. So can physical illness. Traumatic stress, brought on by war, disaster, or a violent attack, can keep your body’s stress levels elevated far longer than is necessary for survival."
There are many different effects of stress including:
- - Headaches due to production of adrenaline by your Central Nervous System
- -Shortness of Breath due to extra Oxygen production
- Faster Heart Rate because of Blood Vessel Constriction
- -Boosted Blood sugar count
- Nausea
- Stomachache
- Loss in sexual desire
- Immune System stimulation, etc.
- Can make breathing more difficult
- Can give you headaches
- Can cause muscle tension or pain
- Chest pain
- Fatigue (extreme tiredness)
- Sleep difficulty
- Anxiety
- Sadness or depression
- Heart disease
- Cancer
- ulcers