What are the affects of stress

The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress can be positive, keeping us alert, motivated, and ready to avoid danger. Stress becomes negative when a person faces continuous challenges without relief or relaxation between stressors. As a result, the person becomes overworked, and stress-related tension builds Stress that continues without relief can lead to a condition called distress – a negative stress reaction. Distress can disturb the body's internal balance or equilibrium, leading to physical symptoms such as headaches, an upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, sexual dysfunction, and problems sleeping. Emotional problems can also result from distress. These problems include depression, panic attacks, or other forms of anxiety and worry. Stress also becomes harmful when people engage in the compulsive use of substances or behaviors to try to relieve their stress. These substances or behaviors include food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, sex, shopping, and the Internet. Rather than relieving the stress and returning the body to a relaxed state, these substances and compulsive behaviors tend to keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems.

What are the warning signs of stress?

Dizziness or a general feeling of "being out of it."

General aches and pains.

Grinding teeth, clenched jaw.

Headaches.

Indigestion or acid reflux symptoms.

Increase in or loss of appetite.

Muscle tension in neck, face or shoulders.

Problems sleeping.

Racing heart.

Cold and sweaty palms.

Its easy to get stressed out cause you have so much going on, but it not easy to get rid of stress but somethings you can do to help you reduce your stress levels are...

• Keep a positive attitude.

• Accept that there are events that you cannot control.

• Learn and practice relaxation techniques; try meditation, yoga, or tai-chi.

• Exercise regularly. Your body can fight stress better when it is fit.

• Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.

• Set limits appropriately and say no to requests that would create excessive stress in your life.

• Make time for hobbies and interests.

• Get enough rest and sleep. Your body needs time to recover from stressful events.

• Don't rely on alcohol, drugs, or compulsive behaviors to reduce stress.

• Seek out social support. Spend enough time with those you love.

  Like I said before stress affects everybody but some people who are affected by stress usually don't know how to beat stress, this is why knowing the warning signs of stress is important, so you can know what to do the next time you feeling stress, stress is a very serious thing but people don't realize it until someone dies from it, yes stress does cause death so get some help before its too late, what really cause people to be stressed?