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.

Calm me down.....