Stress effects on Children

I believe that stress is important, because I am a stressor myself. But there is much more to stress than I originally thought. Stress can actually kill you! It made me stop and think. In fact, stress is linked to the main causes of death in the world: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, liver cirrhosis, and suicide. Stress is much more than I bargained for! In fact, there are many areas of stress that I found, but I tried to stick with the ones that affected me most, which means the effects of stress (emotional, behavioral, mental and physical) the relationship between stress and OCD, student stress, teacher stress, and the neuroscience behind stress and learning.

But if there is one thing that I know about stress, it is that there can be some devastating effects. I myself have experienced loss of appetite, headaches, irritability and moodiness from stress. But there are a lot more symptoms, such as memory problems, pessimisticism, frequent colds, indigestion, lack of focus, lack of sleep, over eating or under eating.

One of the big tells of someone who is suffering from too much stress is withdrawal from the people that they know and care about. Withdrawal or being quite is something that many people experiencing stress and anxiety face. There can be exaggerated feelings of isolation and increased stress feeding into a cyclic loop of increasing withdrawal, and even depression.

The impacts of friends on stress, relationship problems can easily become another source of anxiety and stress. This can be as a result of being withdrawn, as some friends might hinder the process of getting back on track, by not wanting to ‘hang out’ with someone that doesn't want to talk and are behaving moodily. Thus by avoiding difficult issues in relationships can stress be brought on through relationships.

Also when researching the effects of stress, I found the four A’s. I believe that these are some words to live by, when experiencing stress, or if you are just