Symptoms of Stress

Symptoms of Stress | How To Relieve Stress

Symptoms of Stress | How To Relieve Stress

Showing signs of stress can vary from person to person and various environmental or additional medical issues may cause or exasperate  the stress.

Stress can affect people in many different ways from the way you behave on a day to day basis to how or what you eat. It is important to understand that if you experience multiple of these symptoms and you are unable to handle and cope to see your local GP as soon as you can. Prolonged high amounts of unmanageable stress can cause drastic health and mental problems if not relieved or controlled. You can also find out the types of stress on this website and what are the most likely symptoms of each one.

 

Behavioural Symptoms

  • Comfort eating or under eating
  • Increase consumption of alcohol
  • Increase smoking of cigarettes
  • Increased caffeine consumption
  • Feeling constantly tired

Emotional Symptoms

  • Lack of concentration
  • Unbalanced mood swings
  • Lack of patience
  • Feeling demotivated and depressed
  • Easily irritated

 

Physical Symptoms

  • Headaches or migraines
  • Nausea or dizziness
  • Chest, back and neck pain
  • Increase likelihood of getting the flu or a cold
  • Hair loss or hair turning grey
  • Stomach and muscle cramps
  • Present medical conditions may become worse

Cognitive Symptoms

  • Paranoia
  • Constant worrying
  • Anxiety
  • Memory problems

 

These symptoms are not pure fact, the extent of which these symptoms are experienced will vary; some may constantly get migraines during stress but never a loss of appetite or experience sleeping problems. It is good to recognise what is not normal for yourself; have you been eating irregularly or comfort eating; have you recently become short tempered and irritable? What is your character and what is ‘out of character.’

Remember that you are not alone when it comes to stress, it is experienced on daily basis and a lot of people want to know how to relieve stress.