Leading Causes of Stress
Main Cause of Stress Depends on You

The leading causes of stress are plenty and varied. We live in a world filled with situations that can serve as the biggest causes of stress. A main cause of stress is not always a negative situation.

Understanding what are types of stressors is important because it is found to be a factor in both the development and prevention of common types of cancer.

Stressors include different life events that can either be positive or negative. A positive or happy event - a wedding, for example - produces as much pressure and anxiety as a negative situation – a divorce.

But the main cause of stress depends on the person experiencing the it. Some people crumble when faced with a break-up of a relationship but some also take it as just another part of life.

Some know how to share their worries with their families or friends while others shoulder their troubles all by themselves which leads to stress overload.

Leading causes of stress can either come from the environment or inside you.

What are the biggest causes of inner stress?

You have the power to bring unnecessary stress to yourself by the way you perceive or respond to situations. The following attitudes are leading causes of stress:

• Perfectionism or obsessive thoroughness

• Unrealistic or impossible expectations

• Inability to acknowledge uncertainty

• Inability to express feelings or emotions such as anger or guilt

• Negativism or pessimism

What are the main causes of outside stress?

For many people, a main cause of stress can be one of these...

• Financial worries

  

  A survey was done by Reader’s Digest asking 150 people from 16 countries what they consider are the biggest causes of stress. The top 4 answers were money, family, health and state of the world.

  Majority of the participants regard money worries as the number one main cause of stress in their life.

• Family or relationship conflicts

• Major changes in life such as death in the family especially of a spouse or a parent, divorce, or losing a job.

• Health problems such as diagnosis of a chronic illness such as cancer, be it personal or a family member’s.

• Environment that is either overcrowded, polluted or crime-ridden.

• Work that is causing you unhappiness, discontent or is too demanding.

• Poverty

• Racial Discrimination

The first step to manage stress effectively is to know where it comes from -- understand what are the leading causes of stress.

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