10 Secrets About Stress Revealed by Psychologists

Stress feels different for each person

Other people’s advice does not work most of the time because every person feels stress differently. So, whether we talk about work, relationship, school or moving into a new house, the level and intensity of stress is not the same for everybody.

Moreover, the symptoms of stress may also be different. For example, some individuals can develop the irritated bowel syndrome when they are stressed, others have frequent episodes of diarrhea and some can have breathing difficulties or just negative thoughts.

“Stress is idiosyncratic, which is why there are so many varieties of physical manifestation,” says Dr. Mayer.