Medical Questions » Stress Questions » Question No. 960
| Question: | What symptoms does a person with stress develop? How can you tell if those symptoms are due to stress or something else? |
| Answer: | Everyone experiences stress in their lives, but some people cope with it far better than others, and some experience far more due to their individual circumstances.
Stress can cause a very wide range of physical illnesses. Chronic headaches and peptic ulcers are probably the best known diseases due to stress, but depression, heart disease, migraines, diarrhoea, shortness of breath, sweating, passing excess urine, rashes, vomiting and a host of other symptoms may be an outward manifestation of inward emotional turmoil.
There is often no easy way to tell if the symptoms are due to stress or some other underlying disease, and doctors may perform numerous blood and other tests to exclude any other possible diagnosis.
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