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HEALTH
Stress
Symptoms
Posted:
Oct 2009
What
are the stress symptoms? How can
you recognize stress symptoms?
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Perception
of stress is different for
every individual. Something
can be stress for some
person, while it might not
be for somebody else. First
step in coping with stress
is recognizing that you are
under a stress and
understanding why you under
a stress. In order to
understand the stress you
need to identify the stress
symptoms.
These
symptoms can be different.
It is not the rule that all
symptoms will be shown to
everybody. However, there
are some usual symptoms that
can give us the indication
and degree of stress. These
symptoms are shown through
various physical and
physical manifestations.
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Insomnia
or sleep disorder is common
indication of exposure to
stress. If you are exposed to
stressors for some time, it is
possible that this will cause
different psychical and physical
influence to your mind and body.
This influence can cause sleep
disorder or insomnia. This
symptom can be showed through
different sleep disorder
patterns: difficult to fall a
sleep, easy to be interrupted
during the sleep, feeling tired
upon awake, etc. In some extreme
cases total insomnia can occur
as the result of intense stress.
There are many known examples of
people that lost ability to fall
asleep as the result of
posttraumatic stress caused by
some serious life trauma.
Energy
level can be jeopardized after
you are exposed to stress for
some time. If this exposure
continue thorough time and
intensity, it is possible that
your energy level drain out and
you may feel the chronic
fatigue. This could be caused by
two reasons: to much energy
exposure during the stress
periods and/or inability to
fully recover during the periods
of the rest.
Food
intake disorder can happen
during the longer periods of
stress exposure. Your feeding
patterns can distort. Way of
consuming can change, e.g.
eating too fast, eating fast
food... As the reflection of
distorted food intake you may
have the problem with digestion.
Other
unhealthy habits can occur
during stress periods. Beside
food intake disorder there are
other unhealthy habits like
smoking or drinking. Basically
any unhealthy behavior can be
the result of exposure to stress
and general dissatisfaction with
the current lifestyle.
Anger
and uncontrolled behavior is
frequently caused by stress.
This is also the matter of
personal traits, since not
everybody is showing the anger
in the same way. But in general,
it is likely to expect that
anger burst shows at the person
in case of exposure to the
stress level that is beyond the
individual stress capacity.
Skin
problems, blood circulation and
other physical manifestations
can be the result of exposure to
the stress. This is even more
shown in case of conjunction
with other stress symptoms; e.g.
food intake disorder and skin
problems ( acne ) at same time.
These
are the highlights of typical
stress symptoms. It is important
to recognize them early. Denying
the existence of the problem
will not make the problem to
disappear. The problem and the
cause of stress will still stay
there. Recognizing the state of
stress, identification of
symptom and understanding of
causes is the precondition for
successful coping with stress.
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