The Signs of Stress

Stress disorders are often preceded by feelings of excessive anxiety, fear, distress, guilt and shame. Prolonged, repeated or severe stress can precipitate a wide variety of disturbances of bodily functions. These are often referred to as psychosomatic illnesses and include many cases of 'tension' headache, digestive disorders and skin disease.

Stress may also play a part in causing high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, heart attacks and strokes.

There are substantial differences in how each of us reacts to stressful circumstances. As with many other things in life, such as discomfort, pain, disability and so on, some of us have a high threshold and can put up with a great amount of adversity without showing any signs of stress, while other people are distressed by quite minor levels of inconvenience.

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Stress effect to your Memory Problem & Poor Concentration

If you have a hard time remembering or concentrating at work, it may be due to stress. Stress has been shown to cause a constant state of worry, helplessness and anxiety. It can hamper your ability to concentrate and think rationally, causing you to make hasty or wrong decisions.

Digestive Disorders & Poor Nutrient Absorption

Stress may give you "butterflies in the stomach", but it does more than that. It can affect the nerves of the digestive system, slowing down the release of stomach acid required for proper digestion. This is why some people may suffer bloating, indigestion, gas and pain, when they are stressed.

Although stress does not give you ulcer, it can definitely aggravate them. The hormones released during stress can also cause the colon to work faster (leading to loose and watery stools, or diarrhoea), or slower (causing constipation).

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Stress Effect to Love Life & Marriage

Stress can affect your love life in more ways that you ever thought possible. In women, stress can upset the body's delicate hormonal balance, causing a loss of desire, vaginal dryness, decreased libido, and difficulty achieving organism.

In men, it causes the testosterone levels to plummet, resulting in declined physical performance, libido, energy and overall mood.

High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Problems

There's a distinctive link between stress, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. The incidences of heart attacks and sudden death have been shown to increase significantly following the incidence of acute stress.

Stress hormones can raise the blood pressure by causing the heart to beat faster and the blood vessels to constricts.

Over the years, this can overexert the heart muscles, causing it to weaken and work less efficiently, eventually increasing the risk of heart attack, heart failure and sudden cardiac death.

Some of the other conditions associated with uncontrolled or persistent high blood pressure include memory loss, difficulty concentrating, personality changes, chronic tiredness, chest pain, shortness of breath, erectile dysfunction, stroke and kidney failure.