If you have any questions about your personal medical condition, you should consult a suitably qualified professional, such as your doctor. Sometimes, you can be experiencing stress but your mind and body are so good at hiding it from you that you are unaware of it. There may be cultural or social pressure to 'be strong'. Perhaps the employment culture is such that to acknowledge that you are under stress is interpreted as a sign of weakness and could be damaging to your career prospects. If this is the case, you may be tempted to suppress your feelings of stress - which leads to a strategy of stress denial rather than stress management.
Most people experience a significant period of stress or depression during their lives.
To feel stressed at various times is to be normal. The factors that contribute to the experience of stress are many and varied. A useful overview of these causes can be gained by using the 'analysis wheel', to view them. Using this wheel, you can take six different perspectives on the causes of stress. Each of the lists below contains a sample of ideas only - there are many more causes of stress than those listed.