How does Stress affect health? What are the signs?

How does stress affect your overall health?
It is commonly agreed that your health can be split up into two parts: physical and mental. This being the case I'm going to break up this answer into two parts.
The physical affects of stress, I'm sure everyone has felt or experienced at one time or another. These include tension in your muscles, headaches, high pressure and even strokes. I know from my own experiences, under a lot of stress caused insomnia for me in the end a loss of weight. The physical affects of stress are quite obvious and are easily measured when compared to the mental affects.
EQ or which is also know as mental health is the not so obvious to measure, but can be definitely seen through your mood. If you find yourself with a very bad temper; often losing your cool or maybe even feeling depressed and down. This can be a definite sign of stress.
Ask yourself the 15 questions below and you'll be well on your way to finding out to how stressed you really are.
1)Do you find yourself 'eating emotionally': eating unhealthy foods or eating when you’re not hungry, as a response to stress or difficult feelings?
2)Do you find yourself sweating excessively when you're not exercising?
3)Do you ever have trouble sleeping?
4)Are you experiencing any digestive problems, such as indigestion, IBS, or ulcers?
5)Are you suffering from burnout, anxiety disorders or depression?
6) Are you taking care of yourself?
7) Do you have a supportive social network, and take time for relationships in your life?
8) Are you getting regular exercise?
9) Do you find yourself smoking and/or drinking to excess as a way to deal with stress?
10) Do you often find yourself with tension headaches?
11) Are you having trouble maintaining a healthy weight? Or, are you carrying excessive abdominal fat?
12) Are you easily irritated lately?
13) How often have you missed work in the last year due to actual illness?
14) Do you often feel fatigued at the end of a day?
15) Do you have a feeling that stress may be affecting your health?
When I was burned and overstressed and since my mother is actually a yoga teacher, I found myself going to her for advice. She recommended that I take up some meditation. I took her up on her advice and started practicing daily meditation with a twist; after I doing some research on the net I found a great program save years of training and get into states of relaxed meditation of the masters in minutes.

Online test find out now if you're stressed or not.

In this blog you'll find out all the info about the symptoms and solutions and it affects on your health.