Does stress causes adjustment disorder??

Every body is busy in their day to day life. As technology has increased, the pressure has increased on an individual mind. An individual goes through a lot of pressure in today’s times sometimes it can be of work or sometimes it can be of personal problems. Sometimes due to work, a person develops stress and even if the work problem is not that big, the pressure of it can be big on our mental condition. Due to all this, sometimes we develops mental illness. Sometimes these mental illness causes some of the disorders and one of the disorder which has become common in today’s times is adjustment disorder.

Adjustment disorder gets develops through stress. As we know that stress are of two types: positive and negative. Positive stress is that stress which motivates us to do our work passionately but negative stress is that stress which puts pressure on an individual mind on such a level that takes a toll on mental health and causes mental illness. Having negative stress for too long can develop adjustment disorder. Adjustment disorder are caused due to stress where a person experience more stress than what is normally expected.

In adjustment disorder, our response to stressful events becomes more aggressive and sometimes we are not being able to handle a normal situation, our reaction to that situation also becomes quite double that other people cannot resist it. We get angry easily even on a small thing. Adjustment disorder causes major problems in our social / professional and personal lives.

Works problems or some family matters like fights going on in family or death of some closed people in life or may be due to breakup and many more are the reasons behind developing stress. In adjustment disorder, all the above incidents can cause to make person feel weak emotionally and can change an individual reactions to each and every thing. It slowly takes you to the path of depression. Our behaviour changes vigorously that we ends up hurting ourselves. We becomes tough on ourselves. An individual with adjustment disorder starts feeling bad about them. They take blame of everything upon them even if it is not because of them.

Symptoms of adjustment disorder –

Feeling low
not being able to focus on work
feeling stressed upon on small things
lack of appetite
sleep deprivation
Crying the whole day
Blaming ourselves
Loosing control from everything
Not taking part in daily activities
Procrastination
Anxious
Avoiding everything
Suicidal thoughts

And many more are the symptoms of adjustment disorder.

Symptoms of adjustment disorder starts from the third month of stressful events stage and last long till 6 months although adjustment disorder is temporary but in most of the cases if it last long more than 6 months then individual needs to consult with doctor. Treatment and therapies are available for chronic adjustment disorder.

More ways to cure adjustment disorder-

Exercise
Yoga
Meditation
Traveling
Getting yourself involved in creative activities
Taking part in some NGOs and helping them
Taking part in sports

There is no guarantee that adjustment disorder can be prevented or cured but little we can do is to analyse the situation. Be alert about everything. If we know that a stressful event is going to come, we should prepare ourselves, we should make ourselves ready for it.