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Everyone experiences stress from time to time, some more than others. The stress can get a lot worse if you have to keep many balls in the air at the same time. But our body is smart – with all kinds of clues your body lets you know that it’s getting too much. What stress symptoms does the body show when you take too much on your plate?
When you worry about the health of your loved ones, you have deadlines for school or work, you have to take care of yourself and your family at the same time and you also have to find a moment to do the housework, your stress level skyrockets.
Never feeling stressed again is a goal that isn’t attainable for most people, but it’s useful, if not one must, to learn to recognize your own limits. When you have reached your limit, you should take time for yourself and relax well. How you do that is entirely up to you: watch series, read a book or take a nap with your phone off.
13 stress symptoms you can recognize
There are a number of clear stress symptoms that can help you recognize that you’re overstressed and that it’s time to take action.
1. You can’t control your emotions
Anger is often a result of intense stress or fears. You worry about a deadline or your relationship because you feel like you’re out of control. And when you lose control, you often take it out with outbursts.
2. You suffer from your stomach due to stress
Your gut is also known as your second brain. This is because the abdomen contains at least as many nerve cells as your actual brain and there is a clear connection between our abdomen and our brain. The butterflies you feel in your stomach when you are in love are a good example of this. If you often have pain in your stomach, suffer from diarrhea or other intestinal complaints, your body sends a signal. Stress could very well be the culprit of this.
3. Tension in your body due to stress
Are your neck and shoulders always tight? Do you suffer from muscle pain, but have you not done a special workout? Here too, your body could be telling you something. Muscle pain is one of the most common complaints when it comes to stress. This is because you tense your shoulders, jaw and neck all day long.
4. Stress headaches
One of the most common stress symptoms: headaches. These headaches are often caused by those cramped neck and shoulder muscles.
5. Hyperventilation due to stress
If you suffer from stress a lot, your breathing can respond to it. Often people with stress breathe higher and faster than is good for them. This can lead to suboptimal breathing, which can eventually result in chronic hyperventilation.
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6. Cardiac arrhythmias as a stress symptom
If you are stressed, you will notice that you are dealing with a higher heart rate. This is not a problem for a while, but prolonged stress can be the cause of various annoying physical complaints. For example, it is a risk factor for cardiovascular problems, such as arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, vascular cramps, myocardial infarction and cardiac arrhythmias, we read on the website of the Heart Foundation.
7. You can’t get a bite down your throat
We often see that people who suffer from stress cannot get a bite down their throat. This has to do with the hormone catecholamine, which ensures the feeling of satiety. Because of our evolution, stress is linked in our brains with ‘flight’. Fleeing is more important than eating, which makes eating (and therefore appetite) secondary. The result: you are no longer hungry.
8. You’re broken but can’t fall asleep
You go to bed early thinking you can get nine hours of sleep, but before you know it it’s 2:30 AM and you’re halfway through a new series on Netflix. It sounds strange, but when you’re really exhausted, it can actually become difficult to sleep well. If you don’t get enough sleep, you increase the stress in your body and your body starts working on adrenaline. Adrenaline, in turn, causes you to fall asleep badly. Try reading a book before going to sleep and turning off your phone. You will find that this already makes a difference.
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9. Your memory is failing you
When you are stressed, you often also feel that your head is overflowing and you are going crazy. Stress causes a malfunction in the part of your brain that stores important information and memories, but also makes it difficult to retrieve those memories. To the simplest questions such as ‘what is your address?’ you can’t answer and you’re completely blank for a while. Kind of scary that you can’t remember things like that, but if you just take a breather and focus your mind elsewhere, the answer will just come to you later.
10. Your immune system is about to collapse
People under a lot of stress often turn to unhealthy ways to feel better. Think of eating junk food, smoking, drinking and still that episode of a series binge instead of sleeping: all factors that ultimately make you more susceptible to bacteria or diseases in the longer term. But of course you want to prevent that during this period.
11. You have cold feet or hands
The most obvious reason for cold feet and hands is, of course, cold. However, it can also indicate stress: cold and stress have the same effect on the body. In both, the blood vessels in the hands, feet, ears, and nose narrow, so less blood flows through them. The blood has to keep your important organs warm. You cannot live without these organs.
12. Almost no sex drive due to stress
In fact, sex is a good way to release your stress. But unfortunately, when you’re too stressed, you don’t feel like sex or less. This does not work well for most people. When you reduce your stress, this also has a positive effect on your sex life.
13. You are cynical
Not only physical complaints can be signals that you are under too much stress. Changes in your psychological state and in your behavior can also indicate this. Cynical remarks, especially when it comes to work, are a sign that you’re burnt out. The cynicism arises from a lack of confidence and hope.
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