 Stress is a common thing in today's world where everything is fast paced. The danger of allowing the stress to continue, leading to chronic stress, is that your body and your mind are greatly affected. We all experience stress in our daily lives. It could be triggered by anything from losing a job to admitting new responsibilities or facing some life challenges that still major to bear. Stress is the heating emotional response that affects your whole being. Naturally, our body has a fight or flight response. Quarter soul is released and panic strikes when triggered. Stress is our body's response to any change that requires response or adjustments. It is the general term for fillings of anxiety, grief, panic, loss of self-worth and any emotion that is negative or debilitating. If you learn to recognize overwhelming stress, you can figure out what you can do about it. Stress is the way our body responds at any demand or threat. When we sense either real or imagined danger, the body's defense gets into a hurried, automatic process known as the fight or flight reaction or the stress response. This stress response is the way the body protects us. When stress is working properly for you, it can help you stay focused, energetic and alert. Stress can also save you in emergency circumstances by giving you the extra strength you need to defend yourself or helping you to stop before you get into an accident. Stress can also help you get a lot of things done that you wouldn't normally want to do. It can help you get through a presentation at the office. It can heighten your concentration and focus when you're playing a serious game, or compel you to prepare for a test at school when you would instead be playing video games. However, when not well considered, stress can become an enemy to your emotional and physical wellness. Not properly managed, it can start to affect your health, mood, productivity, relationship and your quality of life. If you discover you're always feeling stressed, you need to take some time out to bring your nervous system back to balance. You can manage stress effectively and so protect yourself by identifying the signs and symptoms of chronic stress and taking steps to reduce its harmful effects. This will in turn improve how you think and feel. Effective chronic stress are drastic and dangerous, if not contained. Your nervous system can hardly differentiate between what threatens you emotionally or physically. When you're incredibly stressed because of a simple disagreement with your spouse, losing your job or an argument with a customer, your body tends to react just as strongly as if you're facing a life or death situation. When this stress system is continuously turned on this way, it becomes very easy for it to become triggered. Soon, it becomes harder to shut off this emergency stress system. If you continuously experience stress as most people in the world today do, your body may live in the heightened state of stress most of the time. This could lead to serious health problems. When stress grows into a chronic state, it can affect almost every system in your body. It can make your age faster. It can equally suppress your immune system, upset your digestive system and reproductive systems, and increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. Chronic stress can also affect your brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mental health problems. Besides that, chronic stress can also heighten your susceptibility to certain health problems like depression and anxiety, pain of any kind, sleep problems, autoimmune diseases, digestive problems, skin conditions such as eczema, heart disease, weight problems, reproductive issues, thinking and memory problems. In today's world, most people are accustomed to stress in their daily lives and most others perform well even when some deadline pressures stem at work or anywhere else, notwithstanding. If chronic stress is not dealt with, it can negatively impact your life and well-being. If you can identify your stress, you can work on the causes before it goes beyond what you can handle. This video will show you some signs of stress you should watch out for. 1. Filling tired When you're stressed, certain hormones are released into your bloodstream. This hormones cause your heart to beat at a rapid rate and increases your breeding. It will in turn impact your body physiology. If this becomes consistent, your system can become exhausted and as a result, you would feel tired too often. Sadly, too much stress will also hinder you from sleeping well. This is because chronic stress turns on the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis in the brain, which plays a part in sleep wake regulation. By this, you may experience insomnia and sometimes catch yourself thinking about the same thing over and over again. At this point, your brain is working too hard to find a solution to your problem. 2. Filling like a victim When you're overly stressed, you may feel like you have the whole world on your shoulder or that the entire world is against you, no matter what you do. Doing the same simple things you used to do may suddenly become difficult doing the dishes, talking to your spouse, attending to some task at work, etc. Become extremely hard to do because you're overly stressed. You would feel like everyone and everything is up to fight you and you would always complain even when someone tries to comfort you. Being stressed this way will also lead to you being pessimistic and negative and it can affect your relationship with others. All this clearly indicates that you're stressed and that you need a timeout or some time to self-reflect and relax. 3. Headaches When your scalp muscle is continuously contracted, it can lead to tension headaches which is often linked to stress. This tension headache could get worse as the day goes on. To deal with it, you can leverage meditation or yoga. Also, warm baths or a cool cloth across your forehead can help. Tension headaches can last from half an hour to a few hours. They are also called stress headaches. Thus tension headaches are often like pressure on either side of the head. Sometimes you may also feel a tenseness around your neck and shoulders alongside. If you experience this headache too often, it might be a sign you're stressed. 4. Cloud Judgment It is okay to feel anxious at some point. Anxiety is your survival instinct at work. However, if you catch yourself feeling overly anxious for no reason or you're feeling overwhelmed, it might be because of stress. When this anxiety grows out of hand, it leads to what we call fuzzy thinking or clouded judgment. You will not be able to make the right decisions when situations come up. The clinical term for excess anxiety is generalized anxiety disorder. 5. Irritability It's natural to feel irritable when you're stressed. Why? Because stress effects are mood such that you may not be able to control it. Everything seems so intense when you're stressed because you feel overwhelmed. Your nervous systems become hyper responsive and your sensory receptors become more sensitive to stimuli when you're stressed. This will make everything around you feel intense. At this point, you will feel pressured and will become reactive. 6. Tearfulness Besides being irritable, being over-stressed can also trigger the emotional responses that can lead to tears. However, the good side to these tears is that they support you through your stress as well. According to experts, when you cry, you release excess stress hormones such as cortisol in your tears, like a safety valve. As a result of this hormonal release, you will often feel better after the tears. 7. Loss of libido Too much stress decreases your drive for sex. When you go through chronic stress, you may feel disconnected from your partner. This could cause a loss of interest or a low sex drive, thus affecting your libido and sexual performance. For your sexual drive to be active, your hormone balance and neurological pathways need to synchronize. However, when stress comes in, your body releases stress hormones. The stress hormones affect the balance and can lead to a loss of libido. 8. Eating too much, too little, or unhealthily. If you're stressed, don't be surprised that you're overeat or you don't eat enough, because people who are stressed often find that they don't have enough time. They would resort to unhealthy, convenient foods. You may also lose your appetite for a while. This happens because part of your brain called the hypothalamus produces a corticotropin-releasing hormone, which suppresses appetite. However, if you have chronic stress, your brain will release cortisol. This cortisol will increase your appetite, mostly for sweet and starchy foods. You begin to indulge in what is called stress eating. 9. Becoming less social We all often desire times in our lives when we would just be alone, with no one around to disturb us or intrude on our quietude. But where wanting to be all alone becomes common, it may be a sign that you're stressed. When you feel overwhelmed, your natural reaction is to want to get away to be alone. This can be so if you're reacting to a social stressor. However, withdrawing yourself socially will negatively impact your life, thus worsening things in the long run. 10. Fill in panicked When you're stressed, certain chemicals are released into your bloodstream. This chemicals increase your heart rate and the speed of your breathing. If this increase in your heart rate and breathing does not stop, it can be dangerous. It could lead to filling of panic attacks. At such points, you might notice that you have shortness of breath or that you panic as you're hyperventilating. When you hyperventilate, it leads to anxiety. To deal with this, you may need to distance yourself from the situation at hand so you can calm your heart beating rate and slow down your breathing. If this video inspired you, like the video, we love you.