The overall health and wellbeing of a human being is fundamental to quality of life. If any of us are experiencing an abundance of stress, we are undermining our health and happiness. What are some examples of how stress affects your overall health?Stress can affect you in many ways. Do you feel tired, on edge, fidgety, or hopeless? Does your body ache or your stomach feel sick? If so, these are all signs of stress. And as you experience all this, stress is doing what it does best: Gnawing away at your health.As stress evolves - becomes chronic or more intense - it alters your hormones and your immune system. Stress affects your overall health, as you once knew it, because it slowly weakens your health. You become more susceptible to other illnesses and disease. And of course as the affects of stress build, the negative impact on your family life also builds.Stress also makes it harder to function and simple tasks seem complex. You may even feel like you've aged a million years. You may feel nonexistent. It can upset the entire household when just one person is affected by stress.Some of the side effects of stress are loss .. more»