Symptoms of stress can be nearly any biological or psychological reaction to a stressor, says Elissa Epel, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. In this video, she explains.
The symptom list of stress is so long. In fact, almost any symptom could be caused by stress. I study the mind body connection, and really they're so connected that stress can affect almost every type of cell, every physiological system. Common symptoms, fatigue, headaches, feeling tense and anxious, those are what we see everyday, but the chronic wear and tear of stress can cause other symptoms like causing us to only see the negative and emotional numbness can change how our thinking is [xx] and it can cause us to not be able to experience connection with other people as much, because we're so focused on ourselves.
Elissa Epel, PhD, is a health psychologist and stress scientist. For the past 10 years, she has been studying psychological, social, and behavioral processes related to chronic psychological stress that accelerate biological aging.
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