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You might think of stress as just a mental thing – excessive pressures, worries and anxieties of modern life.
However this is in many ways wrong, these are in fact just some of the common causes of stress. Stress is really your bodies natural and often inappropriate reaction to these ’causes’. This primitive biological reaction is the cause of most of the serious symptoms of stress.
Most of the common physical symptoms of stress are caused by your own bodies ‘fight or flight’ response, which was never intended by nature to be used for extended periods of time. This response evolved to help us in dangerous situations – either to stay and fight or run away, both these reactions involve the body using chemicals and hormones to heighten awareness and give us a instant boost of energy strength. For short term ‘problems’ that can be physically resolved this chemical response is fine and causes no health problems for a fit human body. However most of today’s modern problems, situations and issues are not short term and cannot be solved with simple physical re-actions.
Therefore our bodies are in a ‘stressed’ or alert state for much longer periods of time than is safe for them to cope with, over a period of time this is what causes the major health problems associated with stress.
Let’s start with a list – although this one will get quite long. Any one of these symptoms of stress do not on there own necessarily mean that you are stressed, but if you find yourself suffering from several of these common symptoms, then stress is very often the root cause. If you find that you are suffering from several of these common behavioral symptoms of stress, then you are probably suffering from excessive stress levels.
You should take action to reduce the Stress Factors in your life before these early symptoms turn into serious physical symptoms of stress. There are quite a few simple straight forward measures that you can take to overcome stress in your life, most of these stress reducing techniques just require a little common sense. See our Stress Relief Treatments page for more help. Common Behavioral Stress Symptoms Obesity and Over-eating Increased or excessive drinking of alcohol Loss of appetite or anorexia If you smoke – you’ll smoke more Increased coffee consumption Excessive and continuing irritability with other people Substance Abuse You can’t make decisions, large or small.
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Found At: (physical symptoms of stress) http://www.symptoms-of-stress.com
