When chronic stress causes your energy levels to decrease, it’s time to take control and reduce the stress levels in your life. You may not even know that it’s stress causing the problems, but there are many reasons why stress causes fatigue and other health problems.
When chronic stress permeates your body, muscles tense, you breathe with more difficult and the stress hormones may make your heart beat faster and harder. Gastrointestinal issues and other problems that zap your energy may also occur.
Feeling drained, emotionally and physically can seem like you’re dragging a heavy burden along with you on a daily basis. Eventually, you’re not only dealing with fatigue, but other serious health problems.
Negative self-talk is the reason for much stress that we unknowingly place on your mind and body. Issues that aren’t resolved can occur over and over again, also placing unneeded stress in your life.
Taking the time to resolve those issues and gain control over our patterns of thinking and living can decrease the stress levels in your life and place those problems behind you.
When your energy levels are depleted by stress, you may have trouble completing the day and being as productive as you need to be. Just starting out with stress such as getting everyone dressed and out the door and getting to work on time can be debilitating if other stresses are also present.
It can become an ongoing problem and become chronic stress, which increases the production of inflammatory molecules (cytokines). These harmful molecules may cause conditions such as lupus, diabetes and arthritis to develop and wreak even more havoc on your body.
The thyroid may also be affected. Since the thyroid controls the metabolism, your energy levels may also plummet and can also disrupt how we burn food for energy. Stress is one of the big factors that play a part in the health issue, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome isn’t characterized by a medical condition, but can detrimentally affect you so that it’s difficult to live life as you want or should. It may even worsen when you try to help the condition by exercising – and it usually doesn’t improve when you rest.
Relieving stress in your life may help chronic fatigue and other issues that have to do with your physical and mental health. Energy is so important to your mind and body that it’s essential you find ways to relieve stress and live as normal a lifestyle as possible.
When you take the time to focus on and determine how you can reduce and prevent stress in your life, you’ll find that your daily life will run much smoother and you won’t have the same negative thoughts and harmful patterns.
