Does Stress at Work Have You Losing Sleep or Feeling Sick?

Having an upset stomach is a common reaction to stress. You feel "queasy" when you get up in the morning and and you don't even want breakfast. Perhaps you actually feel fine upon waking but then it hits you later on in the day as you are going through your daily tasks and routines. You then get that queasy feeling, or even terrible stomach cramps. Heavy amounts of acid might give you that atrocity known as diarrhea. Butterflies are beating against the walls of your stomach, and they are making you so distracted that you can't really pay attention to your meeting, your report writing, or so on and so forth. Bile burns in your throat and you think that you might have to go throw up at any second.

To start overcoming this anxiety attack from stress, begin drawing in slow and deep breaths. Make your mind calm through thinking positive thoughts--your mental state does have a strong and direct bearing on your physical state of being and your health. Contemplate things that you love to do. Picture yourself engage in these things. Give yourself some serious fantasy time and create an image of yourself reaping the rewards of all that you have sown with your hard work. You go to work to be rewarded in one or more ways, anyway. Nobody should feel that he works for free. You go to work to have the life that you desire, and perhaps you are also providing for children. Allow yourself to acknowledge the great work that you do every day, and in time that nauseated tum-tum will be just an unpleasant memory.

Insomnia is another reaction to stress that can become a chronic disorder and really take its toll on your life as well as your work. If you are losing your mind over work, then you can possibly begin to toss and turn all night while getting hardly any sleep. The bad news is that losing sleep only leads to losing even more of an edge off of your already dulled performance. You don't want to eat your keyboard every day anymore than you want to risk falling asleep behind the wheel when you go home at night.

You'll need to begin giving attention to other behaviors that might be stress-related that are causing you to have insomnia in their own right. You could possibly be consuming a lot of caffeine in order to give yourself a pick-me-up. However, consuming more than a very moderate amount of caffeine shall interfere with your sleeping patterns, and some people are deeply affected by what the average person considers small amounts of caffeine for nearly a 24-hour period. You need to get rid of the caffeine if you are stressed and losing sleep because of that stress. Then again, you might be drinking too much alcohol in an attempt to becalm your frayed nerves. This shall likewise interfere with your sleep. Some people use the drinking of alcohol to try to fall asleep more easily. Yet that's not how things work in the long run--when your body metabolizes the alcohol, you wake up. Too much alcohol drinking interferes with deep sleep that is needed. If you have gone beyond having more than two drinks per day on a regular basis, you need to cut back. Eat better and more balanced and get exercise; replace your excess alcohol and caffeine use with that and you'll feel your stress alleviated.