Do you have a kind of red warning flag that indicates too much stress?

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Well love if you are having too much stress you know it. Symptoms are different for everyone.

Not all stress is bad for you -- and we wouldn't want to eliminate it all even if we could! (That's why managing stress, rather than eliminating stress, is the goal.)

There are types of stress, such as eustress and acute stress, that are actually beneficial in keeping life interesting. This type of stress includes the thrill of a roller coaster or the excitement of planning a party. However, even this exciting stress adds can up and become negative if you get too much; if you don鈥檛 have time to recover from between one jolt of excitement and the next, your body鈥檚 stress response still gets to working overtime and takes a toll.

How can you tell when your stress level has become too much 鈥?before things are overwhelming? Symptoms are different for everyone, but some common signs that you鈥檝e had too much excitement and need to slow down include:

Impatience or Edginess
Lack of Enjoyment
Sleep Problems
Exhaustion

If ignored, stress symptoms can get more serious and difficult to deal with. The tricky part of managing stress is that, when dealing with stressful events that are enjoyable鈥攖he 鈥榞ood鈥?stress 鈥?you may not always notice how stressed you feel until you experience the more serious stress symptoms, or until you feel overwhelmed. This tends to happen particularly often to people with 鈥楾ype A鈥?personalities, overachievers, and self-described 鈥榓drenaline junkies鈥?

Because everyone鈥檚 early warning signals are different, it鈥檚 important to get in touch with your own response to stress overload, and pay attention so you can notice the toll that stress is taking so you can focus on managing stress before things get to be too much.

A good way to stay connected with yourself and reduce stress at the same time is to maintain a daily journal, or practice regular meditation, both of which are excellent stress relievers that carry many other health benefits as well.

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If you are experiencing a decline in your physical health then that would be a sign that the stress is too much. For example if you are becoming short of breath, experiencing chest pain or palpitations, having severe headaches the stress may be too overwhelming. You may need to seek some help to figure out how to better deal with the stress in a way that does not affect your health.

If you are suffering from a constant tension headache. Other symptoms include, feeling angry at the slightest little thing, loss of interest in the world, pain behind the eyes; feelings of hopelessness.

If you suffer from all these for more than a couple of weeks, you should seek medical help, as you could be heading for a mental breakdown (Depressive Illness).

Oh my gosh, girl. Kill the stress before it kills you. I got a uterine fibroid because of stress, and had to have surgery. That was a year ago, and I am STILL trying to heal my adrenals. My test work proved that my adrenals were blown. NO Cokes, (you call them fizzy drinks) no alcohol, no tea, not even green tea, and no Starbucks at all.