Nervous symptoms of stress


        NERVOUS SYMPTOMS OF STRESS

The nervous symptoms of stress in themselves are often unpleasant and sometimes disabling. But there is an effect beyond the symptom itself. If we come to suffer some disorder of our nervous system, we examine the situation, and it invariably comes to our mind, 'Is this the start of a nervous breakdown? Am I going crazy?' Then there are deeper thoughts: It may be I have a tumour of the brain. A brain tumour! What will happen to me? To all of us? And the children?'
In this way the effects of a nervous symptom are much greater than the disability caused by the symptom itself. It is therefore very important, in our self-management of stress, to understand as far as possible the physiological and psychological mechanisms which operate in producing the symptom. We are then in a much better position to cope with the simple, unadorned reality of the situation.

Nervous tension
«I’m tense. Just can't relax. Tense. Taut like a violin string. Feel if something touches me, I'll snap. Come apart. Body is tense. Feel it in my muscles. Shoulders, neck, everywhere. But more than that. Tense inside, stomach in a knot. And I can't describe it. Tense in my mind. Just can't relax. Give anything to be relaxed. It is not any part of me. It is all through. Everywhere. It is me.»
People suffer nervous tension from stress in varying degrees of severity. Sometimes it is so severe as to be incapacitating. The individual can no longer do his job, or look after the home. With others it is less severe. Just takes the pleasure out of life, so that living becomes a burden.
The most acute danger, of course, is not that the tension will precipitate some terrible illness, but that the individual will turn to alcohol or tranquillizing drugs in an attempt to relieve his distress.

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