Top-5 Signs On How Relationships Can Make You Sick

If you are always arguing with your partner, you are hurting yourself more than you think. All your emotional pain can really damage your physical health.
 
Read below to see how this can happen.

1. Immune system

When you are under stress, your body thinks that there is a threat. If you are doing it too often, your system becomes tired from being on the edge all the time. This exhaustion damages your immune system. And when it is not functioning right, you become more vulnerable to colds and flu.

2. Risk of high blood pressure

 When you are stressed, your blood pressure rises. Heart starts pushing blood faster to give you energy to deal with a threat. Even after you calmed down, your blood pressure remains high for some time. And if this process of stress is rather often, you can get chronic high blood pressure.

 3. Chronic headaches

You can get some chronic headaches because of your bad relationships. So you should avoid arguing for too long, if you used to suffer from headaches after quarrels.

4. High cholesterol

 If you eat some junk food when you are upset, it is a bad sign. Unhealthy food is the main contributor to high level of bad cholesterol.

 5. Risk for depression

Sometimes relationships can make you feel depressed. But real depression is something more serious. Depression makes you hate doing things you used to love. You can’t eat or sleep well. It can also cause such health problems like aches, pains, gastrointestinal issues or even alcohol abuse.
So you should remember that your relationships should make you love life. Take some actions to improve your relationships, so it wouldn’t make you sick.