well i think when you start having symptoms such as you can’t go to sleep at night because every time you put your head down on the pillow you’re constantly thinking of what you have to do or what you didn’t do or what you did wrong. symptoms of anxiety: sleep problems irritability lack of concentration memory issues problems at work ill at ease jumpy eating changes it’s interfering with your ability to relate to others; it’s causing irritable kinds of things you’re irritable where you never really would be irritable you’re finding that your short tempered you can’t handle things you’re having problems concentrating you really feel like you can’t remember some things and that is kind of scaring you. you’re having problems doing your job meeting your deadlines. you never are at ease you always feel as if there is something that has to be done you’re jumpy about things you may have eating changes you may you know some it’s very interesting some people eat an awful lot when they are stressed and they gain weight so we say to people sometimes they don’t know if they’ve gained weight so we say is your clothing a little tighter now and other people they lose their appetite entirely they lose weight. so we look for weight changes sleep changes mood changes. we also look for things like stomachache chronic headache okay feeling maybe very very sweaty hands things like that inability to sit still and just enjoy being quiet for a little bit. you find that you can’t do that. that’s something that you’re not allowed to give to yourself. isn’t that a terrible thing?
how can i know when my stress has crossed a “threshold” into full blown anxiety?