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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.