Main Causes Of Stress

What causes stress?

The main causes of stress are many and varied. In general, we may say that anything that can trigger off a feeling of stress in people are known as stressors.

Stressors are considered to be the biggest or leading causes of stress. They can be practically anything from;

Common events like these:

• Divorce
• Separation
• Marriage
• Getting engaged
• Death of a loved one
• New workplace 
• Redundancy
• New baby
• College students school assignment
• Moving house
• Children leaving home

OR Environmental changes like these:

• too much heat
• too cold
• too noisy
• too much work
• problems you can't solve

To people involved like:

• hard bosses
• noisy children ·
• people who annoy you, and
• people who remind you of something unpleasant.

However, there is also another school of thought on what causes stress.

Although often cited as the main causes of stress, it is believed that stressors, as listed above, are really not the leading causes of stress. Because what's seems stressful for one person may not be so for another. Consider these for example:

• Some people enjoy speaking in public; others are terrified.
• Some people are more productive under deadline pressure; others are miserably tense.
• Some people are eager to help family and friends through difficult times; others find it very stressful.
• Some people feel comfortable complaining about bad service in a restaurant; others find it so difficult to complain that they prefer to suffer in silence.
• Some people may feel that changes at work represent a welcome opportunity; others worry about whether they'll be able to cope.

If stressors are really the main or biggest causes of stress, their effects on people would be the same but that was not the case. As such, something else that is within the person must have caused the stress observed instead. And the main culprit is in fact believed to be….....

"The negative reaction within people"

It all boils down to the way that people choose to react to external stressors that is the main causes of stress.Choose to look at them in a positive way and you would feel happier and better but if you choose to see the negative side of it, then they will end up as stress. It's really that simple!