How does stress affect health?
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It can affect your health in many ways. It can cause loss of sleep, physical and psychological problems. It has been known to add to risk for heart attacks, Stroke.
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If you are having a lot of stress in your life. you really need to do things to Alvie it. Exercise, stress reduction work outs, meditation are just a few.
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Yep.
It just mostly cause muscle pain. But you can get physically sick because of a stressful situation.
negatively generally, but some stress can be good; like the way you might feels stressed when you know you're running late for work, so you get a move on. if the stress is non-productive, it is probably bad for your health.
Pretty seriously, if you take into consideration that prolonged stress can cause high blood pressure,strokes and many other serious ailments.
The brain is like a chemical lab.
Every thought we have release chemicals into our brain to react with all the other parts of our brain - and into the rest of our body.
Stress has a huge impact on our body, but not only stress, all negative thoughts do.
Maintaining a positive mind set is essential to mental and physical health.
Tightening of muscles. Hyperventilating.
If you don't breathe well you can't relax, and if you tighten your muscles you get headaches. You also get more prone to accidents and self inflicted injury.
Those are the causes of stress.
it affects in many ways.first u get irritated.ur stomach affects. dull feeling.tired.losing confidants.due to strss u may get diabetis.if ur one please try and come out of it . good luck all the best.
It can affect everything from acne break outs, hair falling out, high blood pressure to immune system failures such as colds, fever blisters, shingles out breaks, arthritis flares, ulcers and worse. That's why bio-feedback is such an important part of recovery for those of us with chronic diseases. You can't realistically do away with stress, you have to change the way you deal with it. It is work but it's worth it.
Blood pressure rises
Breathing may become more rapid if anxiety / panic attack is present
Pulse races
Prolonged stress may cause heart attacks
Weight loss / gain
Irritability
Irregular menstrual cycles
Skin may develop blemishes / breakouts
Hair can fall out
Gastrointestinal problems (upset stomachs, nausea, etc)
Depression
Big time.
Majority of doctors today believe that almost 80% health problems arise out of over stressing oneself. (Let me rephrase it to say Too Much stress.stress to a certain extent is good for yourself, it motivates and helps achieve better results...)
Excessive stress can cause indigestions, backaches, heart diseases, headaches, emotional disorders, insomnia in excessive levels.
to know more about Stress and how it affects you, check out:
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/stress/...
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