What diseases can excessive stress lead to?

If any part of the stress is too great, it will cause harm to our physical and mental health, and long-term excessive stress may also cause diseases such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism, or even heart disease, so it is very important to regulate stress.

Stress-related disease: diabetes

Director Jin Hui of the Endocrinology Department of Zhongda Hospital analyzed and pointed out that people with high work pressure are prone to diabetes. First of all, it is because of long-term high mental stress, which causes excessive secretion of adrenaline, thereby causing a continuous increase in blood sugar and blood pressure. In addition, people who are under great pressure at work are more likely to have problems with their lifestyle habits, such as smoking, drinking, and unhealthy eating, which can lead to diabetes. In addition, work stress can increase the stress hormone cortisol and make the body unable to regulate blood sugar normally.

Stress Disorder 2: Hyperthyroidism

Experts say that stress can have a huge impact on the endocrine glands through the central nervous system, thereby affecting physical and mental health and even causing psychosomatic diseases. In conditions like hyperthyroidism, prolonged stress can cause excessive secretion of thyroid hormone, which can suppress immune cells. It is reported that before the college entrance examination, students with hyperthyroidism are often encountered in the outpatient clinic, especially female students.

Stress Disease 3: Heart Disease

Nowadays, people are under increasing pressure at work. It is easy to suffer from lack of sleep, mental stress, etc. If you don't develop good living habits, adjust your mood, and reduce stress appropriately, heart disease will take advantage of the situation. If you are always in a state of high tension and your sympathetic nervous system is too excited for a long time, it will cause excessive burden on the heart, increased heart rate, and even arrhythmia. If this continues for a long time and is not adjusted in time, the heart will be damaged, leading to unexpected cardiac events. Some patients with sudden heart disease die suddenly because they stay up late for consecutive nights and are emotionally stressed, which triggers neurological dysfunction, coronary artery spasm, and sudden ischemia of the heart.