how stress can ruin your life
Every day we experience stress – in the morning when we get our kids ready for school, every afternoon as we deal with short deadlines and strict managers, and at night when we complete all of our evening tasks in time to go to sleep and do it all again the next day.
è Fact: Stress can shorten your lifespan by decades, significantly reduce your immune system’s functioning, and prevent many of the chemical processes in your body from taking place.
Stress is both a psychological and physiological response to the problems we encounter daily. Since man first walked on this planet, he has been affected by both physical and mental stressors.
è Fact: People that suffer from high amounts of stress are more likely to experience sexual dysfunction, including impotency.
These days people work more hours, take fewer vacations, get treated poorly and have more responsibilities. Despite modern technological advances designed to make a person’s life easier, it seems as though everyone is dealing with more stress with each passing year.
è Fact: Chronic stress causes heart disease, sleep problems, weight gain and depression.
Anything that upsets a person’s balance and harmony can cause stress, and this stress can cause a number of health issues that affect us every day. What’s worse, one can become sensitized to stress, the effect of which is such that less stress is required to initiate the same negative health symptoms.
è Fact: Stress releases Cortisol, slows one’s metabolic rate, and causes people to eat more. Stress may be the number one cause of obesity in America and around the world.
Stress is more than a mental health issue – it is a physical, emotional, spiritual and behavioral issue. Stress can impair so many different aspects of our lives that living with stress is akin to not living at all.
è Fact: Stress can negatively impact marriages, affect decision making, cause forgetfulness, and decrease libido.
Chronic stress is one of the worst things you can do to your body. It affects both your physical and mental health, and can cause permanent damage through prolonged exposure.
è Fact: High levels of stress greatly increase your risk of getting cancer, and once you have cancer, stress increases the speed with which the cancer propagates, and inhibits cancer therapy.
Nothing good can come from stress. High amounts of stress in your life can slowly destroy both your body and mind, and left untreated, stress can cause an early death – and a far less enjoyable life.
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Stress can cause Many Negative Reactions to Your Mind, Body, and Soul
Stress is defined as a change to your system that can cause negative physical, emotional, and psychologicalstrain to ones system. The lists of negative effects are greater than you might think. The list is included bellow but first we will begin with some different studies about what stress can do and some of the causes.
There have been many different studies created by Doctors, Scientists, Psychologists, and Researchers that prove the below list below does exist.
One research study done by the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, found that stressed monkeys ate more fatty food and sugar then the monkeys that was not under any stress. These researchers have taken this information and concluded that humans when they have a bad day at work, or other stressful event happen, they tend to binge eat.
Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a study to see if acne worsened for people under stress. The study found conclusively that exam stress worsened acne in the students they were studying. The study also stated that the worsening of the diet during exam time could also contribute to the worsening of acne.
Psychologist Andy Parrott, PH.D, of the University of East London, states that when cigarette smokers light up a cigarette to relieve their stress they are actually creating more stress. He feels that regular smokers increase their stress levels in between cigarettes. The habit of the nicotine intake creates the need for another cigarette and when one is not available stress less will increase.
The increase in more stress in our lives has lead to more studies being taken to see if there are ways to curb our levels of stress. If not, stress can be deadly.
Some of the Effects of Stress
the rise of your blood pressure and the making you a stronger candidate for a stroke
- become a large factor in creating heart disease
- premature age on you and your body
- weight (gain, loss, create incorrect eating patterns)
- create poor sleeping habits
- constipation and or diarrhea
- lack of energy and concentration
- high increase of asthma attacks
- higher pain from arthritis
- sadness and anger issues
- onset of diabetes
- lack of sexual desire, sexual dysfunctions
- hives or acne
- anxiety
- make it harder for you to become pregnant
- irritability
- lack of energy
- stomach bloating and cramping
- massive depression
- grinding of teeth and TMJ
- hair loss and /or hair thinning (both men and women)
- panic attacks
- increased rate of drug and alcohol abuse
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