Source: Toronto Hospital
Do you have:
- Muscle tightness, back and shoulder aches
- Dragging headaches that never go away
- Inability to sleep, waking in the night and being unable to get back to sleep, waking at dawn and lying sleepless for hours
- Pains that wander around the body, disappearing from one place only to appear in another
- Stomach, digestive, gastrointestinal problem without real physical cause
- Restlessness so that even if you get a chance to rest and relax, you cannot do so
- Gritting or grinding your teeth
- Numerous small accidents, inability to concentrate
- Mood swings, flying off the handle, weeping fits
- Increased outbreaks of arthritis, bursitis and any other-itis
- Increased reliance upon alcohol to relax, pills to sleep, tranquilizers to calm down
- Decreased socialization
- Fear of others, "can't-be-bothered" about others, blaming others for everything
- Palpitations or chest pains not due to angina or heart trouble
- Inability to carry out the normal tasks of life
- Increased forgetfulness, so that you worry about whether you might have Alzheimer's yourself
- Watching television for hours every day, even when you are not actually interested in the programs
- Having a feeling of despair, being overwhelmed, depressed, overanxious
If you can check off several items, you are suffering from stress and stress kills.
"You are all you will ever have for certain." June Havoc
