What are The Symptoms of Stress?

Category: Characteristics of Stress

Lately a lot of people got stess. From the simple phase to severe one, not a few patients that suffer stress end his life to finish their problem.The increasingly burden life, heavy pressure of life is increasingly complex. Unfortunately, as the gradual and slow the symptoms of stress, a lot of people did not realize when he has entered into the phase of stress. So it is important for us to understand the symptoms of stress as early as possible. Stess compaction in various ways. But in general, the symptoms were grouped into two categories: cognitive / emotional and physical.
Cognitive symptoms

Stress is a psychological issue that ultimately led to the physical person. Cognitive symptoms usually appear first rather than the physical symptoms. Because the cognitive element looks normal stress so often we do not realize it. As for some of the stress the symptoms within the scope of cognitive as follows:
  • Easy to get angry (sensitive).
  • Feeling hopeless when they had to wait.
  • Restlessness, excessive nervousness and anxiety.
  • Always be afraid of things that are not clear and without any reason.
  • It's hard to concentrate.
  • Often feel dazed and confused without reason.
  • Problems with memory (forgetfulness, difficulty remembering)
  • Tend to think negatively, especially on yourself
  • Mood up and down (easily changeable mood, such as feeling elated but soon get bored and want to get angry).
  • Eating too much despite not feeling hungry.
  • Feeling does not have enough energy to get things done.
  • Feeling unable to cope with problems and tend to be difficult to make a decision.
  • Emotions like overabundance (whether happy, sad, angry, and so on)
  • Poor expression and lacking a sense of humor. Loss of ability in terms of responding to situations, social interactions, and other routine activities.

The symptoms of stress over the initial symptoms are usually considered normal. It is not easy to identify the symptoms of stress, but if you experience more than four cognitive traits above, it is liable that you're in the early phases of stress without you aware it.

Physical symptoms

Besides the emotional problems, it turns out the more severe stages, patients show physical symptoms of stress include:
  • The muscles are often tense. Feeling tired when waking up in the morning, late in the afternoon and even after eating food.
  • Lower back pain, felt uncomfortable in the shoulder or neck, chest pain, abdominal pain, cramps in the muscles.
  • Irritation or skin rash unexplained category.
  • Heart rate and tend pounding.
  • The palms and the whole body sweats when not doing physical activity.
  • The stomach often feels turbulent.
  • Indigestion and hiccups
  • Unable to sleep or oversleeping
  • Shorter breath and tightness.
  • Stress greatly affects our health. 
When we got stress, then we naturally also opens up opportunities for the entry of the disease into the body, we are. The relationship between stress and disease is not a new thing. Even some experts firmly stated that stress is the pressure which results in multiple organ function. If only psychiatric problems, so it is called depressed and not stress. The release of stress hormones such as adrenaline that occur repeatedly and quickly became the source of damage or reduced performance of hormones. Some doctors argue that the stress hormone is also actually "eat" the white blood cells. As a result, the immune system decreases drastically so that the disease is more easily infect a person's body.
Research in the United States, the State in which the demands and pressures of life is very high, indicates that there are six main causes of death are strongly associated with the disease of excessive stress and anxiety, among others:
  • Coronary heart disease.
  • Lungs.
  • Hardening of the liver.
  • Accident.
  • Suicide.

As the effects of stress on a person's life can lead to death, therefore it is very important to understand the characteristics of stress that early identification and mitigation measures can be done immediately. If you feel have some characteristics of both cognitive and physical on you, there's no harm in visiting professionals such as psychiatrists or physicians to gain clarity about the conditions you are experiencing.
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