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While this burst of energy may help you in physical situations where your body needs to react quickly, it can have bad effects on your mind and performance if there is no outlet or reason for your stress. These effects may include:
- Interfering with your judgment and causing you to make bad decisions
- Making you see difficult situations as threatening
- Reducing your enjoyment and making you feel bad
- Making it difficult for you to concentrate or to deal with distraction
- Leaving you anxious, frustrated or mad
- Making you feel rejected, unable to laugh, afraid of free time, unable to work, and not willing to discuss your problems with others
Physical and Mental Signs of Long-term Stress
Long-term stress or stress that is occurring over long periods of time can have an even greater effect on your body and mind. Long-term stress can affect your body by:
- Changing your appetite (making you eat either less or more)
- Changing your sleep habits (either causing you to sleep too much or not letting you sleep enough)
- Encouraging 'nervous' behavior such as twitching, fiddling, talking too much, nail biting, teeth grinding, pacing, and other repetitive habits
- Causing you to catch colds or the flu more often and causing other illnesses such as asthma, headaches, stomach problems, skin problems, and other aches and pains
- Affecting your sex life and performance
- Making you feel constantly tired and worn out
- http://www.mtstcil.org/skills/stress-definition-1.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003211.htm
http://www.stress.org/stress-effects/
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