Exams, job interviews, deadline at work, family problems, etc – the list of these stress-givers is endless. We all experience stress in our everyday life, as in this modern world, “stress” is unavoidable. However, a time may come when this excessive stress can start harming our health. Here we list out the Top 10 signs of excessive stress. If you face any of these signs, it’s high time you should do something about it.

10. OVEREATING OR UNDEREATING

Have you started drifting from your usual eating habits, and are you eating more or eating lesser than you used to before? The stress in your life may be the underlying cause for it.

9. LACK OF CONCENTRATION AND MOTIVATION

Excessive stress affects the cognitive centres of the brain – the areas in the brain that are responsible for quick and sharp thinking, and henceforth affects our ability to think properly and concentrate. This lack of focus and motivation can severely affect our everyday life, affecting things such as our studies, job, and relationships. So, if you are facing from such lack of concentration, your uncontrolled stress levels may be to blame.

8. EXCESSIVE MOOD SWINGS

Have you started feeling the people around you, whom you love a lot, to be annoying nowadays, or do tears come out of your eyes even for the smallest reasons? Your stress may be the cause of this. Too much stress leads to a flood of stress hormones making your body always prepared for a threat, and hence it makes you irritable and annoying and sometimes it even turns you emotionally weak.

7. LOW LIBIDO

Too much stress can diminish your sex drive and may start affecting your relationship too. So if you want your libido to increase and your relationship to be secure you’ll need to calm down a bit, try to spend more time with your other half, and engage yourself in healthy activities such as regular exercise – whether that’s above, or beneath the sheets!

6. FATIGUE

On an emotional response to something, our brain notes the memory as important and stores it. We enter a heightened emotional state during stress, and the brain tries to store all the info. However, our brain is unable to accommodate so many memories, which results in a drain of our energy making us exhausted.

5. ACNE

Excessive stress forces the skin to produce more sebum, the oily substance that clogs pores and causes acne. Hence excess sebum provides more opportunities for acne lesions to form. So, our eating habits are not the only one behind acne, stress is responsible too.

4. INCREASED SWEATING

The apocrine glands which are triggered by adrenaline, are responsible for sweating due to stress. Hence, more stress stimulates the apocrine glands to produce more sweat.

3. BODY ACHES AND PAINS

Stress stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to activate the flight-or-fight response. This response causes a flood of blood to flow into our muscles, which increases muscle tension making the muscles sore and painful.

2. FREQUENT HEADACHES

When we are under stress, the muscles around our neck and shoulders get tensed leading to a severe and painful headache. The pain of this headache is felt mainly in the forehead and the back of the head and neck. Adults suffer the most with these stress related headaches.

1. ISSUES WITH MEMORY

Excessive stress comes in the path of the steps performed by the brain to store important information. Hence, when you are under too much stress you start forgetting things as your thoughts will not be properly processed by the brain.

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