Negative Effects Of Stress

Stress is the natural reaction of our body to harmful situation. Stress can make you feel threatened and scared or even nervous. When you experience it, a chemical reaction occurs in your body that allows you to act in a way to avoid being anxious. Stress can have many symptoms and every person deal with stress differently. The common symptoms of stress are being frustrated, losing control, feeling bad about yourself and distancing from other. We have to discuss the negative effects of Stress in three ways to find out how it effects our body, mood and behavior differently.

On your body

Stress can cause many effects on your body including head ache, muscle tension and pain, chest pain, fatigue, change in sex drive, low energy, constipation, rapid heartbeat, frequent infections, dry mouth, clenched jaw, stomach upset and sleeping issues. These situations can be treated with medicines, exercise and other stress relieving activities. Long-term stress had severe effects on your body functions such as cardio vascular disease, Skin and hair problems, obesity, and sexual dysfunction in men and menstrual problems in women.

On your mood

Stress has these effects on your mood such as anxiety, restlessness, lack of motivation and concentration, feeling overwhelmed, constant worrying, forgetfulness and disorganization, inability to focus, irritability and anger, and the strong feeling of depression and sadness. Practicing relaxing techniques and spending time in exciting activities can cure these symptoms and excites our mood.

On Your behavior

Negative effects of stress on your behavior included overeating or under eating, angry outbursts, drug or alcohol misuse, avoiding responsibilities, nail biting, fidgeting, tobacco use, social withdrawal, being fed up of everything and exercising less often. Listening to music, balanced diet and getting plenty of sleep can surely help to deal with these symptoms.