WATCH: Identify and reduce high stress levels

Stress can manifest in so many different ways and it may not be obvious to you.

 

You might not know it, but your recent behaviour or attitude towards life may be the result of being overstressed.

If you find yourself losing sleep, or if you do sleep – but have more nightmares and if you can’t find the positive in anything because you’ve have lost the passion to do work or even simple activities, then you are overstressed

 

According to bustle.com since stress can manifest in so many different ways, it’s not always obvious when we’re under it. Sometimes, we get so caught up in our busy lives, we don’t even stop to think about our mental health:

Signs to look out for:

Insomnia: Stress can keep you up at night by disabling your ability to quiet your mind and get restful sleep.

Scatterbrained: If you’re forgetting things or making careless mistakes all the time, you are probably stressed.

Negative Nancy: You see the negative in everything. Stress prevents you from thinking clearly enough to see the positive.

Control freak: To regain a sense of safety in a stressful situation, you will grasp for control over anything and everything within your power, said the website.

WATCH: How to reduce your stress.

 

 

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