How does stress affect you?

Hi,gloryacam! i'm not a emotional eater.When I feel stressed I don't want to do anything except watching animes.The characters in anime can encourage me and I would try to think about anime plot instead of those tiresome things before I sleep.And I don't want to see people because I'll probably vent my anger on them for some reason(especially my family,I'll try to smile when I'm out) But I always find something new and makes me happy after the tiresome work pass.So I want to keep stressed off and on.

Hi! Yeah, all those things you mention, I feel them when I am stressed out :/ But mostly, I would be unable to sleep, lose weight, and being moody for days, I'll be hard to live with. Even my family learn to avoid me when they see me moody like this, it's like Mr. Hyde decided to make an appearance. So every time I feel stressed out, I make sure to spend some time to myself, go for a walk to clear my head, or just exercise it out. These methods usually help.

Stress makes me either more indecisive than I am naturally or I decide to quickly. Imagine that. I could do just about anything when I am under stress. The thing for me to do can be almost anything - eating, thinking, relaxing, talking are all possibilities. I am someone that does not like to be around too many people when I am stressed because I have to exercise a great deal of control when I feel out of control. If I can have time to think, it helps. Sometimes, one must prepare for stress and plan ways to handle it with proven, well thought strategies.

i think it`s obvious that the stress can affect our mood, our concentration it`s obvious.. sometimes it can make us easily angry at someone

I can relate to your friend. Lately, the people I work with are having the time of their lives stressing me out. It's not something ordinary because I think about it even when I get home (I have this rule that the moment I get out of the office, I make it an effort to stop thinking about work, unless it's absolutely needed or am still on a high with work). This is I guess what keeps me awake until the wee hours of the morning. Also, I have been ranting to my boss (and getting guidance from her) a lot last week. I can't recall a time in the past where I needed to talk to her almost everyday just to rant hahahaha! Yesterday, I was so pissed I can't barely keep my voice calm when talking to that teammate. And I still can't get over all of it that I'll be sending a feedback email later today har har! Lastly, got magnum on the way home last Friday so I screwed my diet-both on food and wallet nyahahaha!

I am just like you ! I usually feel like eating when stressed too. I eat certain things that make me feel better for a minute but usually I will eat a lot. Comfort foods are the best but it won't last long. I will also drink sodas which is unhealthy.

I have learned not to stress out about anything. I am still a work in progress, but I don't allow stress to make me over eat, or not sleep or to be mean and nasty. I look at every situation and ask, "what am I suppose to learn here?" i don't take it personally, and i find the lesson and move on.

When I am stresses and my kids get to be really so noisy, I could also become like your boss- a fire-breathing dragon! But most often than not, I just stay up in our room and take my laptop to a whole day of Mylot discussions.

Stress gets me irritated and annoyed easily. Like your boss i turn into a dragon but only towards my husband. I lose my patience and couldn't control my emotion. So i try to stay away from stress all the time.

Stress is the number one cause for people getting heart attacks. But stress affects everyone differently. I am prone to over eating myself. And I have worked with bosses that were real animals. But being in a position of authority you need to be more in control. I cope with stress by playing music. I think music has a certain magic that calms me down.

Stress affects you negatively in many ways. If it is just a one day in the month thing well, that is life and we all have daily stressors; some we can deal with and some we cannot. If your anxiety is such that you have a panic attack at 3 in the morning and you cannot breathe, that is high anxiety and probably something you have lived with for some time. Change the way you live. Make things easy for yourself by planning your and then stick to the schedule. Do not drink coffee or caffeinated drinks. Do not watch violent films with a lot of noise. Take 15 minutes of your day for sitting quietly and meditate. Do long, slow breathing exercises.

It depends on the situation for me. If I really get stressed out , I get anxiety attacks. Most of the time when I'm stressed I get bad headaches.

In my opinion, stress may help us to finish our tasks more carefully. However, stress always makes us nervous because we are afraid of the bad results. I believe that everyone should live a life with a little stress, but if we are too nervous to do things well, we had better to relax.

I am a student, and I get lots of pimples on my face, my back and my chest if I am under too much pressure, it really causes a lot of trouble. I kinda lack of confident and dislike hanging out. If anyone knows how to let the pimples dissapear, please help me~ Thanks anyway.

Wow nice topic glorycam and that was i experienced in the past few days.i was so stress and it's greatly affected me.Like your friend i cannot get sleep in the night i cannot eat well and the bad thing i lose weight more than 3 kilos that makes my body thin.

Stress is your body's response to certain situations. Stress is subjective; something that may be stressful for one person ie: speaking in public, may not be stressful for someone else. Not all stresses are "bad" for example, getting your term paper done may be considered a "good stress. Stress can affect your physical health, your mental health, and your behavior. In response to stressful stimuli, your body turns on its biological response: fight or flight mode..One of the things that's responsible for this is the part of your brain called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal(HPA) system, which releases a cascade of chemical-such as adrenaline, steroid hormones, and cortisol). Your heart rate increasses, your brain works faster and becomes razor sharp, you have a sudden burst of energy. It is natural, we cannot eliminate stress but we can learn to avoid and manage it. Stress can take a toll on your oral health also..Stress may cause you to clench or grind your teeth and It's often done unconsciously or during your sleep. Stress may lead to gum disease, perhaps because of teeth grinding, less attention to oral hygiene, salivary changes, and impaired immunity. We can help manage stress by: deep breathing, meditation, talk therapy Hypnosis

when I'm stressed Ill just listen to music to make my mind relax for a while.. Because obviously when I'm stressed I can't think clearly which leads to bad decisions. I cannot concentrate on the things i usually did sometimes the people around me are also affected. I hate regrets. So for me I rather choose to avoid those things that makes me stress. Avoid thinking too much on problems and those negative thoughts instead always look at the brighter side of everything and enjoy it Because if you did that definitely you'll have a stress-free and a happy life..

Indeed,sometings we have face with the stress from every aspect.I usually listen music to relax myself,only in that situation,I will do the best judge.

I have a lot of stress in my life. I find it controls every part of me on most days. It can totally take away all my motivation and make me very depressed. I go to talk to a counselor once a week about ways to deal with stress in my life. I have been learning many ways to deal with stress but sometimes the ways to deal with stress don't work. I have the opposite problem when I am stressed I just stop eating and it becomes dangerous to my health. Stress and anxiety over past trauma has made me have an eating disorder that I try very hard to recover from. I hope you can find healthy ways to lower the stress in your life.

Hi gloryacam!, When im stressed i usually do a good job at not showing it. Especially at the workplace I definitely do my best job at just smiling and keep on moving. Sometimes I do find myself with a whole lot of built up stress from preceding weeks. It is at these moments when I turn to good ol' mother nature to pick me back up with a nicely rolled blunt of some maryjane..This smoking session usually relaxes me and suddenly all the issues that were driving me crazy before don't seem so big, and it also helps me sleep like a baby! I hope this helps!