Your world is full of stressors and while a short burst of stress here and there is normal and a part of life, chronic stress is a whole other matter. Exposure to long-term stress can alter your genes, increase inflammation in the body, and cause a wide variety of serious health issues that affect the body and mind.  

Learning how to cope with stress in healthy ways is vital to reducing and managing stress, however, there is a variety of unhealthy methods often used by people, who may not even realize that are doing so.  

1. Vices

2. Denying There Is A Problem

3. Stress Eating 

4. Feeding The Negativity 

5. Compulsive Spending

6. Going Into Hibernation 

7. Self-criticizing

8. Nail biting

9. Angry or violent outbursts and abuse of others 

10. Not eating

11. Surviving on coffee

12. Yelling at co-workers, employees, kids, spouse or friends

13. Social isolation

14. Sitting too much instead of engaging in physical movement

15. Using recreational drugs or abusing mood altering prescription medication