If you experience acute stress often, you may have episodic acute stress. Let’s explore the physical and psychological effects this may have.
Psychological symptoms
Episodic acute stress may make you feel like nothing ever goes right for you. You may find life chaotic or overwhelming. You regularly feel under pressure and on edge. This exhausts you.
Over time, feeling this way may affect how you behave towards others. Feeling irritable may lead you to become unintentionally hostile. This may cause relationship problems.
Physical symptoms
If you have episodic acute stress, you frequently experience the physical symptoms of acute stress listed above. Over time you may also develop:
- frequent, long-lasting headaches or migraines
- digestive problems
- high blood pressure