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Beware Of Conditions That Produce Stress Like Symptoms.

By: Salihu Ibrahim

Aside the stress itself which leads to many symptoms, other conditions can produce symptoms similar to that produced by stress. One of such medical condition is depression. Although, stress when not treated can result in depression, but the feelings ascribed to both of the conditions are quite different. When you are depressed, life ceases to interest you, lack of hope sets in, abnormal sleeping habit is experienced and you become so unhappy that you will want to terminate your life. Most depressed cases leads to ostracizing oneself and therefore the inability to function in the day to day affairs of life. Finding solution to depressed cases often requires the attention of a trained and experienced professional to help find out the root cause of depression; who can be able to tell if the depression is as a result of stress or the man problem is that of depression itself.

Another medical condition that has similar symptoms as that of stress is anxiety disorder. Anxiety could be as a result of fear, panic or even eagerness. Symptoms of anxiety includes muscles tension, shallow breaths, and rapid heart rates. Anxiety may be started up by unreasonable and unfounded fear, sights or smell. Anxiety can result in physical effects like chest pain will a similitude of heart attack, which more of panic, dizziness, headaches and imitable bowels symptom. Vocation, social relationships and family life can be distorted by anxiety attack.

There is also the Post – Traumatic stress Disorder. The main causes of PTSD is when one encountered an event that is quite traumatic such as sexual assault or combat. Or a very devastating occurrence to many people at a time. Such devastating events could be natural disasters. Or even man made disasters. Most people who experience a traumatic event, like the terrorist attack on the U.S are said to have PTSD. Those who witness such terrible sight develop emotional numbness. Sometimes scenes from this often lead to anxiety when they woke up. Stress related to PTSD is categorized as anxiety disorder. Most people suffering from PTSD get easily started due to one noise or the other, PTSD symptoms include sleep disorder, lost of pleasure and lack of contraction.

Treatment and cure for all these types of medical conditions may differ. But always consult a specialist in these things who can differentiate between anxiety, depression, PTSD and stress. Some of the stress could be treated autacoids, anti diarrhea medication for stomach upsets and aspirin and the likes for headaches and pains.

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The Author, Salihu Ibrahim, loves writing health related articles. You can find articles on arthritis at www.arthritis-therapies.com/osteo-arthritis-symptoms.html



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