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Identifying the cause of your stress may be a complex thing to do, but it is important in the effective treatment of the condition. Stress can be caused by many things, but they can be grouped into these four categories:
- Danger – The natural reaction for the human animal faced with a threat is to prepare to flee or face that danger. To do this, adrenaline is released into our bodies to energise us for the task ahead. If we neither run nor fight, we have all this stored up energy with nowhere to go and it results in stress.
- Self Induced – Worrying about things we have no control over. Death, famine in South East Asia, the possibility of being run over as we cross the road, etc.
- Environment – Stress caused by the things that are happening around you, overcrowded rooms, work pressures, family worries, etc.
- Exhaustion – Being overworked, trying to do too many things at once, overloading yourself with responsibilities, etc.
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