| How can stress affect your overall health? | | | | organ function suffer. |
| Several ways. First of all stress is linked to two | | | | What is more is that all of this is even worse |
| very common, yet very difficult problems: | | | | today. So many people are stressed in our fast |
| Depression and Anxiety. Sometimes stress is a | | | | paced, no break world. Think about it, when was |
| good thing, if it brings out the best in us. However | | | | the last time you didn't feel stressed? The last |
| other times when the stress is too much, which | | | | time you didn't have something important to get |
| can be different for everyone because each | | | | done now? Stress is causing way more problems |
| person responds differently to things, the stress | | | | than needed, and we are actually putting |
| causes either fear or withdrawal, which lead to | | | | ourselves, our health, our digestion, healing and |
| anxiety and depression. | | | | other organ functions on the line by not taking |
| The fight or flight feeling we get when we are | | | | breaks. |
| sometimes over stressed causes physical | | | | It is important to remember also that taking a |
| symptoms. Dry mouth, increased adrenaline, | | | | break is good for us mentally. Avoiding |
| sweating and sleeplessness are all common instant | | | | meltdowns, a mid life crisis, and anxiety and |
| signs of stress, but stress goes deeper. | | | | depression. |
| Did you know that stress causes a certain part of | | | | Do you know how stressed you are? Most of us |
| your body, your nerves to sort of cut off blood | | | | do not, and most of us do not realize what it is |
| flow to organs (though not completely) that are | | | | doing to our bodies and minds. There is a stress |
| not pertinent to fight or flight. One main organ | | | | test (scale) on wikipedia (online encyclopedia) by |
| system that gets a shortened blood supply is | | | | Holmes and Rahe. It is an interesting test scale to |
| your digestive system. This causes poor digestion, | | | | check, because although most of us can tell when |
| you aren't able to digest all of the nutrients you | | | | we are stressed this scale can give us a better |
| are suppose to, your body is not processing your | | | | idea of how stressed, and what it is doing to your |
| food the way it is intended to. Other organs get a | | | | health. Check out the scale here. |
| lower blood supply also. In effect healing and | | | | |