1. Loss of Sleep
Sleep is an important function necessary to thrive and survive in the world. Losing too much can create problems, especially when students spend most of their days studying, in class, and working hard. Stress on assignments, for example, can lead to student's constantly delaying work, while at the same time their own sleep. I have gone some days with little sleep because of built up stress and that affected my performance greatly. This situation is well known as one of the consequences chronic stress can bring.
2. Mental Health
Caring for your own mental health is just as important as your physical health. However, in terms with stress, it is more of a vague effect than detailed. A student's consistently building stress over itself over a long period can develop issues mentally and will affect them in the future. It's a situation where students aren't fully inform of the actual consequences of long-term stress and only being given the lesser
"scary" information. Consequences such as anxiety and depression are kept in the dark to defer the situation where it would be best to honest and more aware of such negative impact.
3. Poor Academic Performance
One thing a college student focuses during their educational years is giving their best academic work and performance. It's a skill build upon over many years and seeing it downfall because of something like stress can be devastating. Stress introduces this emotion of pressure and too much pressure can lead to an outburst. When combined with school work, it deteriorates that sense of confidence in one's own work which then leads to poorer academic performance. Scientific articles written and focused on stress and school work performance would best worked with this topic.
4. Weakened Immune System
Stress is an emotional response to excessive work or task related items which can also affect inner physical immune system. Systems such as your heart, lungs, blood sugar and pressure are in danger of being impacted by stress. If stress is prolonged and not treated effectively, one's immune system will continue to be at risk as the years go by. Information on this should be widely known and understandable of how situation such as these can be avoided. Reports reflecting on such topics as immune system of the human body and stress would be ideal to research.
5. No Energy to do Tasks
Distancing yourself from the source of stress and doing what you most enjoy, would give other outlets to focus and appreciate. However, this isn't an option many can input easily into their schedule. Energy is lost throughout the day as students conquer tasks along the way, both school and personal. But, when stress is also imputed into the day schedule, it brings negative impact onto the student. Outlets to avoid constantly being stressed aren't provided and/or students aren't even aware of the other possibilities to distance yourself from the strain.
6. Emotional Wellbeing
Similar to mental and physical health, emotional wellbeing is just as important to worry about with chronic stress. Even though stress itself is an emotion itself, it can still impact other feelings such as sadness, worry, and anger. As as before, more awareness of such negative affect should be known an college campuses to imagine a more positive reaction from students. For example, after multiple burnouts throughout my first year, although I incorporated later into the year, taking a step back truly let the stress on my shoulders flow away.
7. Long-Term vs Short-Term
Stress has multiple categories but one that should be pointed out and more well-known is long-term and short-term stress. Short-term is defined as the "normal" level of stress where it isn't dragged out for long while long-term stress is the opposite. Despite the little differences these two share, the main difference is the after effects they bring on a person. With long-term, effects are more dreadful that can change a person's life such as bring health problems while short-term are quick less harmful like headache. However, many people don't understand or know these differences.