• Marked personality change over time
• Confused thinking; strange or grandiose ideas
• Prolonged severe depression; apathy; extreme highs and lows
• Excessive anxieties, fears, or suspiciousness; blaming others
• Withdrawal from society; friendlessness; abnormal self-centeredness
• Denial of obvious problems; strong resistance to help
• Thinking or talking about suicide
• Numerous unexplained physical ailments; marked changes in eating or sleeping patterns
• Anger or hostility out of proportion to stimulus; violent behavior
• Delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices
• Abuse of alcohol or drugs
• Growing inability to cope with problems and daily activities such as school job, or personal needs.

One or more, but not all, of these signs may be present. Frequently, signs appear in a person's late teens to mid twenties.

TEN EASY WAYS TO
ADDRESS STRESS

• Take deep breaths.
• Take a walk, escape from your environment
• Say no to what you don't have time for or what isn't interesting
• Leave work early (or at least on time)
• Relax your demands on yourself a bit ‚ most of us expect to much
• Let yourself ask questions and communicate with co-workers
• Do unpleasant tasks in the morning to get them over with.
• Simplify things whenever possible. Look at large, overwhelming projects as a series of steps you complete one at a time.
• Let yourself laugh, especially when you feel grumpiest.
• Live in the present--don't spend time worrying about how much better things were in the past or what might happen in the future. Most people who are able to manage stress have perfected the art of living in the now.