Stress - Do you suffer from 5 or more of these stress warning signs?

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia
Article Date: 10 May 2004 - 0:00 PDT


The British Heart Foundation says those who are suffering from more than five of these warning signs listed below may have stress and need to seek advice on how to manage it:

• Feeling sweaty or shivery

• Pounding heart or palpitations

• Needing to go to the toilet a lot more than normal

• Feeling sick in the stomach ('having butterflies')

• Dry mouth

• Exhaustion

• Odd aches and pains

• Smoking and drinking more

• Working to exhaustion

• Headaches

• No time for hobbies any more

• Being irritable at everything

• Thinking "I can't cope with this any more"

• Loss of appetite for food, fun or sex

• Eating too much or too little

• Loss of sense of humour

• Loss of interest in personal appearance

• A feeling that everything is pointless

• Tearfulness

• Forgetfulness

• Feeling tired with no energy

• Difficulty in sleeping, disturbed sleep and waking up unusually early

British Heart Foundation: www.bhf.org.uk/stress

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