Even worse than that, stress gets also into our feelings. We can be overcome with any feeling ranging from anger and sadness to panic with no prior warning. This makes living and especially solving the problem you have extremely difficult as such mood changes make you extremely vulnerable and prevent you from handling many issues in your lives much harder.

What is worse, mental stress will sooner or later cause also physiological problems, just as any kind of stress does. What starts from aching muscles often ends in severe illnesses unless you start coping with your problems instead of avoiding them.

Oftentimes physical effects of mental stress will help form an vicious circle, because they start to cause more mental problems. If you feel extremely tired, you may refuse to get out of the bed in the morning. This will cause you feel lazy and certainly increase your stress at work (when you finally get there) and impede your family function. This will make you feel down and stressed about your own behavior which in turn result in more physical problems. If you feel like this, you have to find some external help - quickly.

The last phase of stress problems takes all your existing problems to the extreme. High blood pressure may cause a heart attack. Digestive problems may result in obesity, tightened muscles and lowered immune system efficiency end in muscle and bone problems and generally lowered performance of your body invites diabetes and other chronic disease. Your mental stress may change from feeling down to a deep depression. Either way, your very life will be at risk. Whether you'll be struck down by heart problems or attempt to commit suicide because of depression, you'll die.

The major problem with stress is that most people under stress try to solve their problems all by themselves, without any external support. They try and try, but most of them fail because of the stress they feel and the decreased ability to solve problems that is the primary mental stress result. Remember, there is no shame in asking for help. Even more, such call is a proof that you are still thinking clearly and do your best to solve your problems. If you try to do it alone, you will be pitied. If you ask for help, you will be revered. It's as simple as that.