Anyone suffering from stress will be affecting not only their relationship, but all parts of their life.
When we feel over loaded, or over whelmed we have feelings of stress and it is very damaging to our bodies, to those we love and every aspect of our lives.
Relationships themselves can cause stress, as couples can live together with a range of experiences from not feeling enough, to something is wrong, from not getting what they need to a loss of love. Stress can have explosive results due to obvious situations in relationships such as affairs and gross loss of trust.
High pressure jobs can affect your stress levels especially the high risk ones here is a few…
- Recruitment Consultants
- Lawyers/Solicitors
- Teachers
- Health Care workers
- Bankers and city traders
- Head Chefs
- IT Helpdesk Providers
Other top stress drivers
- Death of a spouse
- Divorce
- Marriage
- Pregnancy
- Buying a house
- Christmas
Of course many of these factors can be having an impact on one person all at once and overload can start to take hold.
At this point chemicals are released into the persons body and will create the physical symptoms of stress and so idividuals will use coping mechanisms to rebalance how they feel.
Physical symptoms of stress
- Over-eating
- Excessive drinking of alcohol
- Loss of appetite or anorexia
- Smoking more
- Irritability with other people
- Substance Abuse
- You can’t make decisions, large or small.
- Lack of concentration
- Increased and suppressed anger
- Loss of your sense of humor
- Paranoia
- Feeling out of control
- Excessive emotion & crying at small irritations
- Permanently tired even after sleep – (another very common symptom of stress)
- Decreased sex drive / libido
To stop the build up of unwanted chemicals, exercise is critical, but more than that by understanding the meanings we are giving to these situations and controlling our thoughts will have a significant impact on when these chemical are released.
100 people will have 100 different reactions to the same situation, so it’s not the situation that is causing the problem it’s the meanings we give them.
Our meanings are created from our experience of our world so far, if you can change the meanings that you create you will change your reaction to potentially stressful events.
Left untreated stress can have significant impact on physical health and can lead to depression and anxiety.
- If you would like help with Stress please get in contact today.