Your feelings are impacted by stress

Effects of Stress on your Feelings

Your feelings can be effected by stress. Have you ever felt angry, irritated, or more vulnerable during a period of stress? There may even be times where you have felt certain ways and not even realized stress was the factor behind them. Stress has the ability to change a great deal in our body, either in a short time or over a long period, but as long as you continue stressing, you can be sure your attitude will take a sharp turn as well.

When you stress and your body is put into a fight or flight mode, generally you will be unable to do either. These days we aren’t running from a dangerous animal, but instead getting anxious about that job project that is due soon. The constant pressure put on your body can make you feel slightly ill, and it can trigger certain hormones in your body that can lead to certain behaviors. When you feel negative both physically and mentally, it can manifest itself in the way you act toward others. You may feel bouts of sadness, depression, anger, irritability, dissatisfaction, confused, insecure, forget things, resentment, guilt, had problems focusing, grow pessimistic, and experience mood swings.

On your own, you may sit in your room feeling any of these things and become panicky or depressed. When you are faced with other people, family or friends, you can lash out toward them even if you do not truly mean to. Women are known to deal with stress better because they seek to tend children or get help through socializing in order to relieve stressful feelings. Men have a harder time, and are usually angry and wish to be left alone, making it difficult to help them relieve stress through similar methods. Noticing these changes can give you a warning signal that you are stressing too much and should find ways of calming down. It will also help to notify you not to make rash decisions or judgments that you may regret later. Just realizing you are stressed can help you step away from a situation. If you are going through massive anxiety from stress, once you realize its stress causing this, it can help you look at the situation from a different and less critical angle, Realizing you are stressed can sometimes give you the power to analyze your problems while taking the influence of the stress out.

Try this as an exercise, the next time you feel your emotions surge due to pressure of some kind, the moment before you react stop yourself and think, is this really how I act in these situations? Even if it isn’t it probably won’t take the emotion away, but it will give you the opportunity to distance yourself from it. Once that happens it will allow filtering how you are feeling though the knowledge of the fact that you are stressed, This exercise in itself allows you to control your reactions and also think a little clearer.