What are the long-term health effects of stress?

• Your mind:
  • Chronic anxiety.
  • Depression.
  • Mental breakdown, even suicide. Worker safety magazine Hazards estimates there could be as many as 250 work-related suicides each year.
• Your behaviour:
  • Alcohol/substance misuse.
  • Social isolation.
• Your body:
  • Digestion problems.
  • Diarrhoea.
  • Vomiting.
  • Stomach ulcers.
• Your immune system:
  • Lowered resistance to infections.
  • Chronic asthma.
  • Chronic dermatitis.
  • Possible increased risk of cancer.
• Your heart:
  • Heart disease.
  • Heart attack.
  • Stroke.
  • Hypertension.