You don't find much in life to feel joyful about. There's nothing to look forward to. These are some of the signs of a common problem called stress. We all suffer feelings of stress sometimes - the anxiety and the feeling that life is hard to cope with. Sometimes the symptoms of stress are expressed in a physical way - headaches, stomach aches, a pounding heart, a churning feeling in the stomach.
Stress happens for lots of reasons.
A crisis can make us feel stressed, but so can everyday problems like worries about work or money,or about relationships or about children's behaviour. Although a certain amount of stress is normal, too much can contribute to health problems, including heart disease, some types of mental illness and abuse of alcohol or drugs. That's why everyone needs to be aware of stress and know how to find good ways of coping with it. People who see difficult situations as challenges to overcome, rather than problems that get them down, usually cope better with stress. Don't make small problems seem bigger than they are.