Stressed

Your officemate taps his fingers on his table. You grimace at this irritation action because it doesn’t allow you to concentrate on your work. And what makes it worse is that he continues to do his thing, and it annoys you more, triggering you to confront his barbaric stuff.

In this scenario, he’s either really annoying or you may just be stressed, where you tend to react at simple things in exaggerated manner. And when stress attacks you, you may not know what you really can do, since you are too irritated to care about the actions you’d do.]

Stress, as defined by Wikipedia, is “the condition that results when person-environment transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy, whether real or not, between the demands of a situation and the resources of the person’s biological, psychological or social systems.” Its manifestations vary on the person’s capacity to express it. Some of them seem like everything is normal when insider, they are quite tensed and stressed, some manifest it with their appearance, while the others become bitchy about everything.

Here are some of stress manifestations:

1. You feel intensity in your body. This suggests that physical manifestations is also a way to signify that a person is in stress. Shaking, having rashes, body aches, and even having goosebumps are some of the things that may might happen when one is experiencing stress.

2. You get angry easily. It pisses you off when people talk, when problems, even the shallowest one, occur, when they have good time, when they move slowly, etc. When a person is burned out, he/she notices everything and has negative reactions to it. He/she might confront or shout at the person concerned just like the scenario mentioned above.

3. You become emotionally unstable. You feel a mixture of emotions such as anxiety, anger, doubts, and tension. When different kinds of feelings get into you, your reaction, apparently becomes unstable too.