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SOME SYMPTOMS
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Dizziness or a general feeling of "being out of it".
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General aches
and pains.
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Grinding
teeth and/or clenched jaw.
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Headaches,
indigestion. Increase in or loss
of appetite.
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Muscle tension in neck, face or shoulders.
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Problems sleeping
and/or tiredness and exhaustion.
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Racing
heart, cold or sweaty palms.
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Sexual difficulties.
WHAT IS
STRESS?
We are all familiar with the word "stress". Stress is when you are
worried about loosing your job or worried about having enough money to pay your
bills. In fact, to most of us, stress is synonymous with worry. If it is
something that makes you worry, then it is stress. Your body, however, has a
much broader definition of stress. TO YOUR BODY, STRESS = CHANGE. Anything that
causes a change in your life causes stress. It doesn't matter if it is a
"good" change, or a "bad" change, they are both stress. When
you find your dream apartment and get ready to move, that is stress. If you
break your leg, that is stress. Good or bad, if it is a CHANGE in your life, it
is stress as far as your body is concerned.
Even IMAGINED CHANGE is stress. (Imagining changes is what we call
"worrying".) If you fear that you will not have enough money to pay
your rent, that is stress. If you worry that you may get fired, that is stress.
Whether the event is good or bad, imagining changes in your life is stressful.
Anything that causes CHANGE IN
YOUR DAILY ROUTINE is stressful. Anything that causes CHANGE IN YOUR BODY HEALTH
is stressful.
IMAGINED CHANGES are just as
stressful as real changes. Let us look at several types of stress -- ones that
are so commonplace that you might not even realize that they are
stressful.......
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Emotional Stress
When arguments,
disagreements, and conflicts cause CHANGES in your personal life - that is
stress.
Illness
Catching a cold, breaking an arm, a skin infection, a sore back, are all CHANGES
in your body condition.
Pushing Your Body Too Hard
A major source of stress is overdriving yourself. If you are working (or
partying) 16 hours a day, you will have reduced your available time for rest.
Sooner or later, the energy drain on your system will cause the body to fall
behind in its repair work. There will not be enough time or energy for the body
to fix broken cells, or replace used up brain neurotransmitters. CHANGES will
occur in your body's internal environment. You will "hit the wall,"
"run out of gas". If you continue, permanent damage may be done. The
body's fight to stay healthy in the face of the increased energy that your are
expending is major stress.
Environmental Factors
Very hot or very cold climates can be stressful. Very high altitude may be a
stress. Toxins or poisons are a stress. Each of these factors threatens to cause
CHANGES in your body's internal environment.
The Special Case of Tobacco
Use
Tobacco is a powerful toxin!! Smoking destroys cells that clean your trachea,
bronchi, and lungs. Smoking causes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, which
progress to slow suffocation. The carbon monoxide from cigarette smoking causes
chronic carbon monoxide poisoning. Tobacco use damages the arteries in your
body, causing insufficient blood supply to the brain, heart, and vital organs.
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of cancer 50 fold.
Chewing tobacco or snuff is no safe haven. It also damages your arteries, and it
carries the same cancer risk. (Cancers of the head and neck are particularly
vicious, disfiguring, and deadly).
Poisoning the body with carbon monoxide, and causing the physical illnesses of
emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cancer, and arterial damage, tobacco is a
powerful source of added stress to one's life.
Hormonal Factors
PUBERTY - The vast hormonal changes of puberty are severe stressors. A person's body
actually CHANGES shape, sexual organs begin to function, new hormones are
released in large quantities. Puberty, as we all know, is very stressful.
PRE-MENSTRUAL SYNDROME
Once a woman passes puberty, her body is designed to function best in the
presence of female hormones. For women past puberty, a lack of female hormones
is a major stress on the body. Once a month, just prior to menstruation, a
woman's hormone levels drop sharply. In many women, the stress of sharply
falling hormones is enough to create a temporary OVERSTRESS. This temporary
OVERSTRESS is popularly known as Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS).
POST-PARTUM
Following a pregnancy, hormone levels CHANGE dramatically. After a normal
childbirth, or a miscarriage, some women may be thrown into OVERSTRESS by loss
of the hormones of pregnancy.
MENOPAUSE
There is another time in a woman's life when hormone levels decline. This is the
menopause. The decline in hormones during menopause is slow and steady.
Nevertheless, this menopausal decline causes enough stress on the body to
produce OVERSTRESS in many women.
Taking Responsibility for
Another Person's Actions
When you take responsibility for another person's actions, CHANGES occur in your
life over which you have little or no control. Taking responsibility for another
person's actions is a major stressor.
Allergic Stress
Allergic reactions are a
part of your body's natural defense mechanism. When confronted with a substance
which your body considers toxic, your body will try to get rid of it, attack it,
or somehow neutralize it. If it is something that lands in your nose, you might
get a runny, sneezy nose. If it lands on your skin, you might get blistery skin.
If you inhale it, you'll get wheezy lungs. If you eat it, you may break out in
itchy red hives all over your body. Allergy is a definite stress, requiring
large changes in energy expenditure on the part of your body's defense system to
fight off what the body perceives as a dangerous attack by an outside toxin.
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