According to My Cleveland Clinic, there are three types of stress: acute stress, episodic acute stress and chronic stress.
According to Patient.info, acute stress is short term stress and goes away. This can cause irritability, a negative attitude, anxiety, poor sleep, poor concentration and self-isolation.
“Sometimes when I have stuff to do [I’m a] little short with people,” Kennedy said.
According to Brain Training, episodic stress is when someone has constant acute stress and, therefore, does not have the time to ever calm down. This causes a constant feeling of anxiety, feeling out of control, poor judgment, memory issues, mood swings, self-isolation, loneliness, sadness, changes in behavior and sleep problems and the development of nervous habits. This can lead to drug use and neglecting responsibilities to feel a sense of escape from the stressor.
According to Yale Medicine, chronic stress is stress going on in the long term, so for weeks or months. It can cause a change in social behavior, low energy, unfocused thinking and changes in emotional responses as well as emotional withdrawal.
I’ve dealt with episodic stress since I was a little kid, and I’m dealing with chronic stress now. Stress has caused me to have my fair share of panic and anxiety attacks, it has caused me to develop my own nervous habits, such as picking at my own skin. It’s caused me to have little to no energy for weeks on end.
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