What is stress? Causes, symptoms, impacts and treatment of stress

What is Stress? 

"Stress is something that causes tension in a body and that tension could be physical as well as mental. Many of the times the thing which makes you worried and angry could be stress."

Stress is a part of life and can have both negative and positive impacts on your life. For example, when we take tension of exams than it motivates us to work hard but the same stress or tension in long term can have negative impacts as well.

Now lets come across the causes of stress that why peoples are suffering from this:

Everyone goes through different stress due to different stress stimulus. It could be work stress, family stress and others but according to the survey most of the people suffer from stress due to work. Work is the biggest source of stress for people.

The main causes of stress are:

• Overtime work or too much load of work
• Death of family members
• Fight with spouse
• Serious illness
• Anxiety and depression
• Anger guilt
• Fear of speaking in front of colleague
• Not satisfied with working environment
• Financial problems
• Divorce
• Facing harassment at work
• Unclear expectation of your work
• When things do not go according to your expectations
• Sudden change in life even happy or unhappy

Impact of stress on your health:

Stress can be short-term and long-term. Short term stress is known as acute stress and long term stress is known as chronic stress. Acute stress occurs when you face a sudden stressful situation and notice that your breathing gets faster and you start sweating. It is easy to get rid of the short term stress but not from the long term which can lead you to a serious problem. Stress ultimately affects your hormones, causes it to die more quickly and leads you to actual physical illness. All these sign can be noticed within your body.

Impacts of short term stress:

• Headache
• Fatigue
• Upset stomach
• Insomnia

Impacts of long term stress:

• Depression
• Fertility problem
• Skin problems
• Heart attack and heart diseases
• High blood pressure
• Weight gain and loss 

Treatment for stress:

• Make a habit of doing exercise and yoga
• Consult to a doctor
• Consider supplements
• Maintain healthy diet
• Write down your problems
• Spend quality time with your family and friends
• Learn to say no
• Cuddle
• Practice and enjoy new things

Stress is a problem which all of you should really consider. Stay happy and keep others happy because you never know what someone is going through.