can stress cause illness/ serious illness?

Answer 1

yes stress is the number one killer of people.

Effects of chronic stress

Chronic stress wears you down day after day and year after year, with no visible escape. Under sustained or severe stress, even the most well-adjusted person loses the ability to adapt. When stress overwhelms our coping resources, our bodies and minds suffer.
Health effects

Recent research suggests that anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of illness is stress-related. The physical wear and tear of stress includes damage to the cardiovascular system and immune system suppression. Stress compromises your ability to fight off disease and infection, throws your digestive system off balance, makes it difficult to conceive a baby, and can even stunt growth in children.
Stress and Your Health

Many medical conditions are caused or exacerbated by stress, including:

* Chronic pain
* Migraines
* Ulcers
* Heartburn
* High blood pressure



* Heart disease
* Diabetes
* Asthma
* PMS
* Obesity



* Infertility
* Autoimmune diseases
* Irritable bowel syndrome
* Skin problems

Emotional effects

Chronic stress grinds away at your mental health, causing emotional damage in addition to physical ailments. Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to everyday pressures and less able to cope. Over time, stress can lead to mental health problems such as:

* anxiety
* depression
* eating disorders, and
* substance abuse.

Severe stress and trauma

Severe stress reactions can result from sudden, catastrophic events or traumatic experiences such as a natural disaster, sexual assault, life-threatening accident, or participation in combat. After the initial shock and emotional fallout, many trauma victims gradually begin to recover from its effects. But for some people, the stress symptoms don't go away, the body doesn’t regain its equilibrium, and life doesn’t return to normal. This severe and persisting reaction to trauma is known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Common symptoms of PTSD include:

* Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, or nightmares about the trauma
* Avoidance of places and things associated with the trauma
* Hypervigilance for signs of danger
* Chronic irritability and tension
* Depression.

PTSD is a serious disorder that requires professional intervention.

Answer 2

Can Stress Cause Illness

Answer 3

I don't believe what doctors say on this issue. To me Stress is a part of life, some people can handle it others can't. As for it causing illness Doctors say it does but I do not believe this. If it were so there would be an easy way to fix the problem. Simply remove the stress and the illness would go away. Unfortunately there is no magic pill being developed to do this now.

Answer 4

I have heard doctors and other health professionals say that stress is the cause of all illnesses and that cancer is the biggest stress related condition of all.
Stress causes both physical and mental illnesses. It troubles the heart and circulatory system with hypertention, the digestive system with ulcers, the mind, and even the back. Stress causes the muscles to tense and that in turn affects the back. It causes insomnia and poor eating habits. Stress is the cause of failed relationships, broken families, and even suicide.

Answer 5

Chronic stress is known to weaken the immune system.

Answer 6

ask my x-i saw her with another guy-so i got stressed n shot at both of em--it causes serious injury or death

Answer 7

Of course it can and it can caue physical and mental illness too.

Answer 8

yes. I have depression and it gives me stress and i get sick.