10 Signs You’re Carrying More Stress Than You Realize
10 Signs You’re Carrying More Stress Than You Realize As a therapist, one of the things I hear most often is some version of this sentence: “I didn’t realize how stressed I was until I finally slowed down.” Sometimes people don’t notice until they’re sitting in my office, describing their week, and suddenly connecting the dots between headaches, irritability, restless nights, and constant tension. Other times they come in convinced that their “problem” is laziness, relationship conflict, or a lack of motivation when, in reality, stress is quietly pulling the strings in the background. Stress is sneaky like that. We expect it to look like long nights at work, panic attacks, or obvious overwhelm. But often, it disguises itself in…
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