Stress Affects Health – How to Tell if Stress is Making You Sick?

Feeling frustrated, anxious, easily irritated and drained? Knowing that stress affects health, could these be stress related symptoms? Find out how you can recognize the early signs and symptoms of stress before it develops further into chronic illnesses.

You are feeling frustrated and anxious and every little thing seems to irritate you? Or you are constantly having those headaches, feeling very tired all the time but simply could not find time to have a good rest? Having endless worries that drain you and making you unable to concentrate on doing even simple tasks?

If all these sounds familiar, then likelihood is that you are suffering from stress!

Stress is part of life. It affects our lifestyle and we can’t get away from it totally. Some come from the pressure of work, problems in relationships, money, school assignment and examinations. Even environmental changes such as change in the weather may also trigger off some stress related symptoms in a person. Some stress may serve you good by enabling you to feel energize and an improved performance overall but too much of it can be debilitating.

Under continued and prolonged influence, your health is almost certain to be another victim to the side effects of stress.

Physical illnesses related to stress are numerous and varied. These include a poor immune system, which results in a person falling sick easily, mental disorders like depression, heart diseases like heart failure, heart attack and hypertension and even body weight may be affected with some reporting a weight gain while others may loss weight.

However, despite the fact that many people notice something wrong about themselves, the symptoms are not always that clear cut. A person prone to common cold may not be aware that his immune system is impaired due to prolonged pressure and stress is often the last thing that they would consider to be the cause of it. So what if you suffer from headaches. Everybody else does too, don’t they?

Mild and common these symptoms may be but if ignored, may well be the cause of more chronic illnesses in the long run.

Awareness of the early signs and symptoms of stress is the first step towards prevention of stress induced illnesses. Part 2 of this article "Stress related illness Symptoms – How to Recognize Them" will provide a detail list of all these symptoms. Make sure you check out this article to better equip yourself in recognizing and deal with them before stress gets the better of you.