You don’t feel particularly anxious, and yet … your body thinks the opposite. Persistent fatigue, sudden irritability or even loss of interest for what you love: these symptoms, apparently harmless, could well reveal a much deeper stress than you imagine. The magazine Hack Spirit has identified 9 surprising signs not to be overlooked.
You are exhausted for no apparent reason
It is not a simple fatigue at the end of the day. You feel emptied, as soon as you wake up or at the slightest effort. This kind of exhaustion, even after a full night, can be the physical manifestation of chronic stress. It acts in the background, uses your reserves, without having a single foot off the bed.
According to the specialists cited by Hack Spiritthis fatigue can go as far as chronic fatigue syndrome, a form of dysfunction that prolonged stress sometimes triggers.
You lose your concentration capacity
Everything escapes you? A forgotten meeting, an unanswered email, and you reread the same paragraph three times without holding anything … Again, stress blurs working memory, overload thoughts and block your attention. Your brain is monopolized by underlying tensions, even if you are not aware of it.
The most disturbing? You feel “drained” while usually you are organized. A frustrating lag that adds to the general discomfort.
You become irritable, for no real reason
The slightest noise annoys you, a word of the way bristles? This irritability, new or amplified, is not just a fleeting bad mood. It often reveals repressed stress. The brain, saturated, reacts a quarter turn. And everything becomes potentially irritating, even things that you supported very well before.
“”The problem is not the others, it is your tolerance threshold that has grown“, underlines Hack Spirit.
You have put your personal needs in parentheses
When stress takes up space, self -care is the first collateral victim. Have you stopped sport, skipped your well-being appointments, dropping evening reading? If your personal routines have disappeared, it is not by chance. This is that the energy required for these gestures you lack – siphoned by latent stress.
Your nights are disturbed
Too many night awakenings? Difficult to fall asleep? Or on the contrary too long but non -restorative sleep? Stress has the annoying habit of inviting itself under the duvet. It causes ruminations, bodily tensions and even early awakenings, which exhaust more than they rest.
And if you sleep too much, be careful: hypersomnia can be a mask of stress, even a distress signal.
You don’t want anything anymore
Creative activities, sport, games … What made you vibrate leaves you indifferent? Stress slowly nibbles pleasure. This phenomenon of anhedonia is known: it settles when the brain is overloaded and can no longer generate the dopamine necessary for small pleasures.
It is not lazy: it is a sign that your emotional system runs in “energy saving” mode.
Your humor has evaporated
When stress settles, laughter becomes rare. Do you manage to stay neutral in front of things that made you laugh? It is not trivial. This change can be a strong psychological signal. Stress puts the brain in survival mode, and cuts pleasure circuits, including humor.
You start to ignore your health
A dragged back pain? A pain that you minimize? Are you going back to a medical appointment? Stress brings you into an active denial mode: you no longer listen to your body. Except that by ignoring these small signals, you leave the ground to a potential aggravation. This behavior is often linked to mental overload or a lack of emotional availability.
You feel overwhelmed permanently
The common thread of all these signs? A constant impression of being overwhelmed. Too many tasks, too many obligations, too much to manage … The problem is that this feeling becomes your new standard. And you end up accepting it, without understanding that it is your body that begs you to lift your foot.
“”When you juggle permanently, you always end up dropping a“, Recalls Hack Spirit. And sometimes it’s your health.