This might be useful if you were a caveman trying to outrun predators, but these days it is mainly caused by stressful situations, such as a traffic jam, or stress in the workplace.
The effects of stress on your heart might not be noticeable at first. But if you are constantly under stress day in and day out, then stress can have a significant effect on your health.
Stress can also affect your heart indirectly. A lot of people tend to overeat, or drink, or smoke in order to cope with stress. These habits, in turn, pose a great risk to your heart health. This is why it is so important to recognize just how big of an impact job stress has on your heart.
For millennials, stress can cause them to take up these bad habits at a younger age. This means that when they grow older, they would start to feel the negative effects of these habits on their heart.
Stress also has an effect on your mental health
Aside from your heart health, job stress can also have an effect on your mental health. Having job stress can lead to mental health problems such as depression and burnout.
Mental health problems can also affect the way you work, and can make you under perform or not be able to do your job properly. When that happens, you feel even more stress, which affects your mental health even more.
Mental health problems also affect your overall health. Aside from developing unhealthy coping mechanisms, your body can start to feel the physical symptoms over time. Here are some of the physical symptoms of mental health problems:
- Difficulty sleeping
- Chronic pain
- Stomachaches
- Constipation
- Lack of energy
- Changes in your appetite
- Low sex drive
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