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WARNING SYMPTOMS OF STRESS: RASH DECISIONS AND INSOMNIA

Rash decisions

«I was silly, stupid, foolish. I simply did not think it through. So unlike me. Usually give these things a lot of thought. Get advice. Talk it over quietly with someone I trust. Leave it a day or two before giving an answer. Just didn’t do those things. Rushed off and committed myself. Didn’t think it through. Now I’m in one hell of a mess.

‘I have not been myself since this other trouble began. All on edge. But I did not think it would affect me like this. »

In stress the over-alertness of our brain cells may manifest itself in irritability, so that we react too quickly to minor stimuli. The same principle may apply to a major stimulus of decision-making. The over-alert nerve cells respond too quickly. We come to a hasty decision, and make a rash judgment on some important matter without fully thinking it through.

This is a common cause of errors in judgment in business. It means that if we are under stress from some other cause, we should be particularly careful about making quick decisions.

There is another area in which this reaction may produce quite disastrous results. It applies to young people. Man and girl going together. Everything has been fine between them. One of them comes under stress from some outside major problems, maybe the job, maybe the exams. Some incident crops up between them. The one under stress reacts too quickly. ‘If that’s how you feel, we’ll break up.’ And a good relationship is lost, perhaps forever.

Insomnia

«You only know the value of things when you have lost them. Something as simple and natural as sleep. Had never thought about it. Now I’ve lost it. That’s all I think about. Will I sleep tonight?

‘Toss about for hours. Have moved to another room. No need for the two of us to go sleepless. Sit up and read. Get up and make myself some tea. Take some pills, and hate myself for it. Thoughts run round and round. Will they never stop? »

The over-alert brain cells produce the restless movement of our body, and the persistent activity of our mind, and prevent our natural sleep.

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