Stress as we know by definition is an effect of various types of pressure on our psychic and physical function and in regard to these contributing factors the leading causes of stress vary from individual to individual. While the causes of stress in old people are oriented with sense of insecurity, loneliness, increasing health problems and many other factors inadvertently related with old age problems, the causes of stress in young people are mainly professional work pressure related. In present society even children or teen age boys and girls on the verge of their early youth are increasingly becoming victims of stress and in their case the causes are more related to the huge demand of good grades or pressure of ambitions. Among all these different areas of contributing factors of stress in different age group of people we picked up here 8 leading causes of stress.
1) Disintegrating family bond and relationship
This reason is probably the biggest among the various leading causes of stress in various age groups of people across the society. Today unlike the earlier time or the time a few decades before family life are continually disintegrating in values and association. In a typical urban family adults are all busy professionals engulfed with their individual ambitions from morning to late in evening, while old people are drenched into their gulf of lonely reverie and health hazards and the children and young ones are suffering under the depressive pressure and demand of good grades and ambitions of their parents regarding their future. In this reality of family life everyone is becoming inaccessible by the other members of the family and thus the burden of pressure from various sources and concerns are making way for stress to all, elderly and children alike.
2) Work Pressure and Financial Insecurity
In regard to talking of leading causes of stress while everyone refers to work pressure we want to look at this factor from a total perspective taking financial insecurity as an important accompanying aspect with that. Actually people succumb to work pressure just because of financial insecurity or in other words lack of job security. Globalized economy with its tremendous competitive manifesto of growth, prosperity and delivery has made our life inexpressibly submit to professional work load. You always have to keep on your toes either to be rewarded with next opportunity or to be kicked out to find another vacancy. The rising cost of living all over the world and corresponding economic pressure on household just supplied that extra fuel to the work pressure.
3) Market Driven Ambitions
How many news of unnatural deaths and suicides you have encountered in last one year or so that concerns petty ambitions like buying a costly smart phone or a electronic gadget or simply over the purchase of a new car? Yes, these news are almost every day features in all leading dailies across the globe. So many people across various demographic groups do not hesitate to take lives of others or oneself in protest to their inability of buying consumer durables! Yes, in the past few decades market driven ambitions has become a serious concern for social psychology in general. Even those gritty dazzling consumables on display can make people of all age group suffer and add to their burden of stress.
4) Health Hazards
Health hazards is no more just a contributing stress factor for old people, it is increasingly becoming one of the leading causes of stress for children and young people alike. In the past few decades great many lifestyle oriented diseases have come up to become threatening to all age groups of people. Obesity, hypertension, insomnia, diabetes are engulfing more and more number of people every day with long term health hazards and even young children are becoming infallible victims to them. These diseases as medically observed have a great bearing on psychic pressure and corresponding stress in people. Old people always tend to suffer from stress due to sleeplessness or lack of deep sleep that make them indulge in excessive concern on all sort of things.
5) Poor Nutrition
You probably would like to associate this cause of stress with the socio-economic factors and economic deprivation in poor or underdeveloped countries that makes millions of people suffer and die from malnutrition. But the surprising fact is that even among city living wealth citizens in developed and underdeveloped countries in many cases suffer from lack of balanced diet or nutritional constituents in their food not because of unavailability or lack of resources but mainly because of their unhealthy food habit of taking loads of nutritionally poor junk food or packaged food. No matter whatever be the reason poor nutrition is medically considered to be one of the leading causes of stress. Absence of vitamins and minerals in suitable proportion in your food can make you suffer from lack of patience, increasing level intolerance, haziness and lack of clarity in thought and rough temper and all these are contributing psychic factors of stress.
6) Lack of Rest
Some people even in their sleep dreams to complete task either in office or at home that remained pending for so long. It is not always work pressure that makes you kneel under stress, but sometimes it simply can be your work alcoholic and hyper active attitude to living that let you reel under the burden of stress. You don't want to waste time just sitting in leisure even in an apparently relaxed day and want to find always something worthy to invest your time, it can be reading a book or cooking a special meal, gardening, going to a weekend language or music class and so many. Remember rest is an unavoidable condition to re-energize your psychic and physical mechanism to get up to your feet for fresh undertaking of new responsibilities and workloads. Less you are taking rest more disproportionate your organic process would become and one day this would invariably take shape into a huge burden of stress.
7) Personal Relationship
From children to young couple to aged all across various demographic and age groups suffer from this leading causes of stress throughout the world. With derogating social relationship, loosening individual values and consequent detrimental relationships and bondage in family, stress and mental suffering concerning relationship is becoming a regular issue. Just think of the social reality where children are growing up without having sufficient company and affection of their parents, lack of conjugal time and communication taking the course of break-ups and divorce or unhappy relationship among couples and aged people suffering from lack of company and emotional company. Man is a social being whose happiness depends upon relationship and company and when that becomes missing, he inexpressibly suffers from burden of unhappy concerns that result in stress.
8) Social Environment and Panic of Terror
Today our daily life is inexplicably bound with numerous social aspects that are taking huge toll on our nerves day in and day out. Just imagine the sufferers after the killing spree in schools, colleges, theater halls and in public places. In most of such cases a psychologically insane person is responsible for such acts and the worst victims are not only the dead ones but also the people who survived such death game. Just think about the millions of survivors in terrorist attacks all over the world and you will know that surviving such killing attempt is equally full of horror that would consequently amount to stress and various sensibility disorders. Definitely derogating social environment relating to increasing rate of crime and terrorist activities is one of the leading causes of stress all over the world. Not only the survivors, sufferers or victims, even the millions of people who from the media bytes are almost habituated with their daily dose of panic also fall victims of stress.
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