These illnesses aren’t caused directly by stress but an increased stress level decreases the ability of the immune system to fight off problems and infections and also decreases the ability of your body to hold the current conditions at bay. You may find you have memory disturbances or even mood swings, anxiety, depression and irritability. People who are suffering from stress will have difficulty focusing on a task and may have problems with outbursts of anger.

While most of these physical psychological symptoms of stress will disappear when the stressor is eliminated if the trigger persists then some of the symptoms can continue as well. Sometimes when people suffer from high levels of stress hormones or increased amount of toxic metabolites they can have a difficult time with handling stress. The long term effects of stress include stroke, weight loss or gain, substance abuse, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, irritable bowel disease, stroke, or ischemic bowel disease like Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis.

Even though the symptoms and outcomes can be devastating there is always a treatment available to people who want to change the way that they cope with stress. Stress won’t disappear in your life, nor should it. We all enjoy the positive stressors in our lives; marriage, new baby, job promotion, new house, or new car to name a few. Without them our lives would be stale and boring – and yet they require that we learn how to effectively deal with the physical psychological symptoms of stress to enable us to fully enjoy the outcomes.