What Causes Stress Overload?

Some people tend to perform better when they are under stress; other people on the other hand tend to fall to its effects. People tend to deal with the causative symptoms of stress differently. Some people easily put a bad day aside while others tend to dwell on their daily pressures a long time after they experience them. When you combine these with an unexpected illness in the family or problems at work and at home as well as packed schedules, then stress may easily occur.

Some common stressors that may cause stress overload include:

-Exposure to ongoing violence

-Death of a loved one

-Ongoing problems at work or home

-An inability to relax

-Constant overworking

-A chronic illness in self or a loved one

In some cases a stressful situation becomes so severe that people suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. This is a stress reaction that develops in people who experience such a traumatic event that their body and mind shows very serious physical, mental and emotional symptoms to stress.