Stress is caused by your body asking for help. Perhaps you have become stressed over something major like a death in the family, moving home, an accident etc. Your body is just asking for some help with dealing with it.

Our body will release certain hormones to help us cope, but unfortunatly for us, these can sometime work against us and cause our health to suffer. This means that we need to take action to get our body to do what we want it to do, let us cope with the stress.

Everyone is different and what affects one person wont bother someone else. Often stress is caused by a build up of small irritations that can lead to one big stress out.

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Stress can present itself in many different ways. Sometimes the person may well just be feeling under the weather. Another may show symptoms of stress by being irritable and aggresive towards people.

Some people even have physical problems such as tummy upsets, vomiting and dizzyness. There are so many ways for stress symptoms to show themselves, you can learn more about the symptoms of stress here