8 Things That Will Happen To You if You are Under Stress For Too Long

We live in a world where stress has become completely normal thing. We all experience stress in some point in our lives, but the stressful days can make real damage to our mental and physical health if they last too long.

It looks like we can’t even avoid stress.  We are all surrounded by stress in our everyday lives. From the moment we open our eyes in the morning till we go to bed, we are confronting so many things that are stressing us out.

Trying to escape from the problems and worrying about the tasks you need to finish on a daily bases can make you feel stressed for a longer period. Sometimes even the body starts to send you signs that you have been overwhelmed by stress. Being able to recognize these signs is very important so you can save your emotional and physical health.

This is the list of the things that will start happening to you if you are under stress for too long:

1. You easily get irritated by little and unimportant things.

When you’ve been stressed out for a longer period, you will find yourself that you can’t control your emotions and that you get irritated easily by small irrelevant things. For example you can get very nervous if someone changes the channel while you’re watching TV or if the same songs are constantly repeating on the radio.

2. You start eating a lot or you can’t eat at all

After being stressed for a longer period, you will notice changes in your eating habits. You start to feel weak and the blood sugar levels can drop or increase easily. So you can notice that you are not able to stop eating cookies or cakes or food rich in fat. The other thing that can also happen is being unable to put anything in your mouth.

3. You have terrible tension headaches

Another common thing when you’ve been stressed out for a longer time is the throbbing headache that is happening pretty often. Sometimes these headaches can be mild, but sometimes they are so terrible that you wish you could get out of your skin. You need to control the stress if you want those chronic headaches to end.

4. You feel very tired

Another sign that you have been under stress for a longer period is the lack of energy.  You feel like the stress has sucked all your energy and you even start to feel unable to finish your daily tasks. You feel weak and you don’t have enough strength to pay attention to the things that are surrounding you.

5. You snap easily

Finding difficulties to control the anger is another common thing after being stressed out for longer time. You find yourself unable to deal with negative and irritable things. You can throw your anger easily to someone with silly and ironic comments.

6. You try to keep yourself busy all the time

You start to increase the number of daily tasks, so you can prevent yourself of thinking about the things that are stressing you out. Fulfilling the day with more and more responsibilities just to commit the energy and the thoughts to them is a defensive strategy. You need to be careful with this kind of behavior because it can wear you out even more.

7. You have difficulties sleeping

When you are under stress for too long you also find struggling to sleep. Your mind is focused on the problems and worries so you can’t fall asleep after stressful day. If this happens for a longer period of time, your cognitive functions can be damaged and you will also find it difficult to concentrate and think straight and fast.

Young Woman with Insomnia

8. You have stress rashes

Your skin can also reveal that you have been under stress for too long. You may notice pimples, hives or zits on your body. They can be really uncomfortable and ruin your self-confidence.