Are you Vulnerable to Stress?

Stress can be caused by a number of factors. Stress levels affect individuals differently depending on their age, physical health, emotional well-being, quality of interpersonal relationships, weight, traumatic experiences, others� expectations, immune system, lifestyle and many more. Even a slight tampering with either of these aspects can trigger high stress levels.

It is difficult to precisely determine who is most vulnerable to stress because it influences people of every age in different ways. It is the way individuals respond to these stress levels that can have differing affects depending on the physical, emotional and social support they have to manage stress. In children, the common factors that might cause stress include:

• Lack of love and support
• Conflicts with peers and family members
• Academic pressure
• Physical disabilty
• Tense relationship bewtween parents and family members
• Traumatic events such as loss of a parent
• High expectations from teachers
• Inabilty to perform academically well
• Poor performance at sports and physical activity
• Fear of speaking in public
• Poor diet

In teens, the most common factors that might cause stress include:

• Peer pressure
• Physical appearance and transitions
• Material, academic or extracurricular accomplishments
• Relationships
• Traumatic speriences
• Divorced, separated and deceased parents
• Lack of family support
• Career and future
• Monetary factors

In adults, the most common factors that might cause stress include:

• Hectic life
• Lack of family support
• Financial obligations
• Relationships
• Stained relationship with teengae children and other family members
• Lack of exercise
• Lack of communication
• Poor sex life