In this racing world, where you need to keep your personal life intact while making beneficial decisions for your working environment, distress gets a hold of your system. It does not matter if you are having a silent tension on your mind or a certain weight on your chest because of incomplete deadlines. Stress creeps into your life silently. It has its own agenda. That’s why you need to figure out the level of stress you are having and how are you going to control it.
Basically, stress is the response that your body gives to any kind of uncontrollable demand or a hard challenge. It is not completely bad. In fact, stress is important in some parts of your lives. Because it alerts your nervous system and gets you moving. It is the chronic stress that is going to come after you. This kind of stress is what will put a lot of pressure on your mind. Slowly and gradually this kind of stress is going to affect your emotions, decent power as well as behaviour.
Sources of stress
● Bad relationship
● Financial instability
● Health problems
● Professional issues
● Life changes such as divorce, shifting to another part of the country or loss of a loved one.
● Low self-esteem or perfectionism
These are the common factors which can induce extreme stress in your body. Normally a person can deal with stress in their life but gradually this kind of stress becomes really hard for your nervous system and this is when disasters happen with your health as well as personal life.
If you’re stressed, it does not mean that you’re going to have panic attacks or fits of crying. Instead, you can suffer with stress silently. You need to look for certain science to understand your level of stress. There are some physical signs and then there are some emotional times you need to keep all of them in check. If you are having disturbance with each and every sign from these two categories then it means that you are stressed out.
Physical attributes
● Immunity power is low
● Sleepless nights
● Muscle are always tensed
● Stomach is always bloated or disturbed
● Headaches are a constant.
Emotional attributes
● Sadness is your friend all the time
● You get more swings constantly
● Always anxious whenever something is wrong or not wrong
● Irritability even in the daily tasks of life
If you want to look at some more detail, then there are some cognitive signs as well as some behavioural signs. Let’s take a look at all of them. Cognitive part consists of racing thoughts, forgetfulness, constantly worried about one thing or the other and poor concentration. Behavioural signs consist of not liking to interact with the general public, procrastinating and use of alcohol, caffeine or sugar.