Feeling ugly lately? Don’t blame your clothes, make-up or the color of your hair. Chances are, you are under a lot of stress and it’s showing on your face, your skin and pretty much your whole demeanor.
When you are under stress, you are affected mentally, emotionally and physically. It shows in your eyes, in your smile – or lack of it, and in your attitude. That’s not even the worst part.
The worst consequence of stress is that it affects your health. Too much stress increases your risk of developing diseases not least of which is heart disease. So basically, when you’re under stress, your:
– Mental state is questionable
– Emotional quotient is negative zero
– Heart may be in trouble
These, on top of transforming from a beauty to a beast!
How can stress make you ugly anyway?
How Do You Deal With Stress?
Your answer to this question can help you understand why stress can turn anyone from a beauty to a beast.
Turning to Vices
For most people, their stress quick fix involves smoking, drinking and food binging. If you are like most people, you will probably smoke, drink, or binge or do all of these at the same time which is even more fatal to your health and beauty.
These vices have become a means of escape for those who are under a lot of stress and if one is in the habit of smoking and drinking several times a week, the ill-effects of these vices will ultimately show over time – both on your physical appearance and your health.
Losing Sleep
Stress is also a common factor for not being able to sleep properly at night. Sleep deprivation is one of the fastest ways to lose your beauty glow.
By not allowing your body to rejuvenate through a restful sleep every night, you are depriving it of its much-needed energy which can make you look tired even before you get up from bed.
Pimple Breakouts
Studies show that stress can cause pimple or acne breakouts. It is believed that the body produces more of the hormones that directly produce oil and an increase in these hormones means an increase in oil production.
Too much oil can clog your pores which will then ultimately lead to breakouts.
That’s an ugly mark right there!
Wrinkles
Here’s one more ugly truth about stress: it can give you wrinkles! Studies show that when a person is under stress, it affects the body’s cells causing them to age more rapidly. When this happens, the skin loses its suppleness making it look old, dry and wrinkled.
Falling Hair
Believe it or not, if you are constantly under stress, sooner or later you will notice that you have more hair falling than usual. Unfortunately, there is no other remedy to prevent hair loss from stress except to start learning how to relax.
However, even after you have managed to relax more and be less stressed, you may still experience the hair loss because it can occur months after the event that gave you too much stress.
So ride out this particular hair loss consequence and make sure that you do not subject yourself to stress factors so you won’t have any more future hair loss.
Vitamin Deficiency
Stress hormones deprive the body of its much-needed vitamins and nutrients because they compromise the body’s ability to absorb these from the foods we eat.
Vitamin deficiency does not only affect your internal health, it likewise manifests in your physical appearance.
So the next time you look in the mirror and you do not like what you see, ask yourself if you have been under a lot of stress lately. That might be the ugly culprit.
Jenny Richards is a free lancer writer and content builder of http://www.waysto.org/
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