People experience stress in different ways.  Some people suffer from physical problems or discomforts, others are affected emotionally. Often both factors interact. Every person has a favourite way to deal with stress. In stressful situations they show their favourite stress behaviour. Check the list below for your favourite stress behaviour.

• To be nervous or tense
• Respiratory problems
• Quick pulse or heart beats
• Stomach aches or intestinal problems
• Eating more/less
• Irresolution
• Eating sweets
• Starting to quarrel
• Feeling unimportant
• Feeling sleepy/sleep
• Feeling itchy/scratching
• Buying things
• Travelling
• Inability to concentrate
• Insomnia
• Feeling blocked up or bottled up.
• Excessive crying or laughter
• Being scared
• Getting down with a cold or the flu.
• Remain heavily disappointed.
• Excessive sex drive
• Back aches
• Being pathetic.

Of course, all these above mentioned symptoms might also be caused by other factors. However, if one or more symptoms of the above list occur on a regular basis, it is about time to start doing something about it.