Stress creates emotional and physical responses in you and can create positive or negative feelings. It's vital for your health and wellbeing to adopt effective stress management techniques appropriate to your lifestyle when you start to experience extremes of these feelings. Stress is your body's response to demands made upon it as you adjust to your continually changing environment at work, out and about in the world, and at home.

Here are the main stress sources: Survival Stress, Internally Generated Stress - Anxiety, Environmental Stress, Nutritional and Chemical Stress, Lifestyle and Sources of Stress in the Workplace, Fatigue and Overwork.

Experiencing long term, chronic stress symptoms can be a considerable health risk as they will gradually diminish your immune system. Some research even claims that 90% of illness may actually be stress-related. Find out more about: Stress Physical Symptoms, Mental Symptoms of Stress, Emotional Symptom of Stress, Relational and Behavioral Stress Symptoms, Sudden or Severe Stress Symptoms.

Relentless work related is a condition which can cause serious health problems. Stress in a job you hate, poverty, a dysfunctional family, living in a dangerous neighborhood can all grind you down with chronic stress week after week, year after year.

Short-term stress or acute stress is the most common form of stress. Acute stress occurs as a result of pressures of the recent-past and the demands of the near future. Changing jobs, moving house, traffic jams, and other day to day problems  are common causes of acute stress.

A couple of great stress quotes to start with: "Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action." and "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."