The Impact of Stress on Your Life, Health, and Family

                                        

Stress is a daily occurrence in life, it is also something that everybody endures fairly on a  regular basis, but when stress begins to have negative impact on your body and mind, it then means that you are not only stressed but you are also distressed. 

People often don't realize that stress is not only something you cope with but stress is also a state of your body being impacted negatively. The impact of stress on your body is much more than you may care to acknowledge.

 
The two kinds of stress are. The "good" stress that is often called eustress and the "bad" stress is generally referred to as chronic stress or distress. Chronic stress or distress gradually comes on you and affects your health.

The bad stress starts in a way you may not even notice some of the symptoms at all. And if this chronic or bad stress is not managed, the symptoms will get worse and it may lead to even irreversible consequences.
 
Stress may manifest itself in your body in the following ways:
 
1. Anxiety. When you are stressed there is the likely you will have to deal with uncontrollable heights of anxiety. Anxiety and depression are two of a kind that often go hand in hand, and is capable of causing several changes in the physiological functioning of the body.
 
2. Depression. Depression often comes on you when you are stressed out, the human brain contains many chemicals to help you deal with stress, and when these chemicals are used up the resultant effect is that you become very seriously depressed for a relatively short period of time.

3. Obesity. Most often you cope with stress by eating unhealthy, foods full of carbohydrate and fat. Stress prevents the control of chemicals that are needed to break down fat, which consequently lead to obesity.

4. Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is at an epidemic proportion in many societies of the world including rural communities and urban slum. Type 2 diabetes is precipitated by mental and physical stress that subsequently cause rapid fluctuations in blood sugar levels. 

Type 2 diabetes no longer respect age, social, and economic status most disturbing aspect of it is that this condition has long-term effects associated with this include heart disease, blindness, liver problems, kidney disease, and more.
 
5. Heart disease. Stress is very closely associated to heart attacks and sudden death linked with cardiovascular disease (Disease of the heart and blood vessels). When you allow stress untreated, there is quick breakdown of the body break and the heart is often seriously impacted.
 
6. Hair loss. Stress can be one of the causes of hair loss when left unmanaged. If you are noticing that your hair is prematurely falling off, it could still be closely related to how you are dealing with the stress in your life and not genetically related as we are often made to believe. Work very hard to   control your stress effectively.
 
7. Sexual dysfunction. There are a number of men and even women who have lost interest in having sexual intercourse with their partners as a result of reduced sex drive or libido. 

Stress is one of the most common reasons for impotence in men and lost libido in women.  Stress therefore can affect your health in many ways. The points listed are by no means all the ways that stress affects your body and health. 

Stress is a serious matter; you may also suffer from tooth and gum disease, hyperthyroidism, ulcers, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and even cancer.  Having noted some of the havoc stress can cause on your health and life, you should therefore brace up to begin to actively manage your stress today.
 
Even if your stress state appears overwhelming, don’t give up start trying to change things by adapting small ways to fight your stress. Do not allow stress to affect your health and get up and combat it now, you will be happy you did.