Causes of Mental Stress
The modern busy, hectic and competitive life style has given the gift of stress to almost every living human being. Many persons apparently looking healthy and smart with impressive personalities are stressed inside. If you study their behavior and life style and if they ever speak their heart to you, you would know that most of them have very uncomfortable state of mind. They are seldom at peace; do not have sound and refreshing sleep, do not enjoy their meals like a normal happy person and so on. They have achieved material success but at the cost of their peace of mind; they have sold their happiness for worldly gains. They want to get rid of their stress but either do not know how to mange it or have no time to do that.
There are innumerable causes of mental stress. Some are:
- Over enthusiasm or ambitiousness
- Running after desires rather than needs
- Desire to subdue and dominate others
- Craze to pile up wealth
- Using all the energies to become rick quickly
- Getting top grades in the college or university
- Trying to achieve bigger goals in shorter time
- Centralizing the authority in self
- Expand the business beyond means and requirement
- Difficult work environments like working with demanding boss or trouble creator colleagues
- Difficult and/or disharmonized family life
- Broken or strained relationships
- Bad financial state
- Prolonged sickness
- General discontentment
- Worries about the future