Causes of Stress

You must be aware of the potential triggers of stress in order to implement the appropriate stress management techniques necessary to prevent it. The term “stressors” refers to the typical sources of stress.

Let’s have a look at different factors that cause stress in our life.

Emotional Stressor

The key factor influencing your decision to change your normal mental outlook is stress in your emotional life. It may lead to depression or a change in how you perceive the world. Anxiety (worry and anxiety) and the fear of failure are two examples (thinking and believing that the most terrible thing could occur).

Change Stressor

Change stressors are the outcome of significant changes in your life, such as starting a new work, relocating to a new college, or starting a new life after marriage.

Family Stressor

A few examples of family stressors include having an argument with your spouse, having poor connections with your parents or siblings, or watching your teenager’s daughter or son enter the rebellious stage.

Work Stressor

Workplace stressors might include missed deadlines, an excessive workload over a short period of time, a payment delay, and undesirable job assignments.

Social Stressor

Socializing can result in social stressors, such as going to events, parties, dating, or other gatherings where there are many people. Anxiety can be brought on by not being invited to a social event or by being involved in an awful incident that takes place there.

Other situations that could lead to stress include heartbreak, death, losing your job, getting sick, feeling disassociated, and pressure brought on by an unexpected increase in duties.

Your choice of religious values and faiths will also have a significant impact. When you meet someone who is close to you but holds different opinions from you, it can be stressful because you feel challenged. These are only a few examples of local events that could induce stress due to emotional ups and downs.

Chemical Stressor

The most important elements that contribute to chemical stresses are often excessive drinking, smoking, and consumption of various other substances.

Physical Stressor

Your body can be impacted by physical stressors such as lack of sleep, skipping meals, excessive exercise, and repetitive daily activities like standing or sitting.

Environmental Stressor

The environment you are living in or moving into can be a source of environmental stress because of things like pollution, extreme heat in the summer, various seasons, and cold winter weather.

Pain Stressor

Acute and chronic are the two types of pain we usually suffer from. Chronic stress is more likely to last longer than acute stress, which can last for up to an hour. A rude comment on your blog post or unexpected actions that surprise you are two examples of acute stress.

The symptoms of chronic stress, however, include feeling unsatisfied with your personal or professional life and having a lifetime of struggle with every choice you make.

Your work may be the cause of sadness or feeling of discontent. It could be brought on by long work hours, excessive effort, bad time management, coworker insecurity, the inability to make your own decisions, being bullied or made fun of by your coworkers, and the lack of moral support from your immediate family.

Decision Stressor

It’s common for making decisions that have a big impact on your everyday life to cause a lot of stress, which is why these situations are referred to as decision stressors.