Can stress make you ill?

Can stress make you ill?

Gladeana McMahon (Life Coach) gives expert video advice on: What are the signs of stress?; What is stress?; How does stress affect us? and more...

In severe cases, such as <a href="http://www.videojug.com/interview/post-traumatic-stress-disorder">post traumatic stress</a>, stress can actually make you become ill, because what it can do is that if you're under that prolonged pumping out of stress hormones, you're not sleeping, for example, and you're getting much more irritable, then your whole body is working against you. It is not uncommon. If you think of stress as being mild, moderate or severe, if you are severely stressed, it's like getting on the bus and going all the way to the terminus. If you're on the wrong bus, you've got a heck of a long way to come back, and it's at those points that people will potentially get heart problems, and they'll potentially get certain psychological problems like nervous breakdowns, depression, anxiety. Physiologically, stress can cause you a lot of illnesses.