When I get overly stressed, I get easily irritated and really uncomfortable. Like if my shirt sleeve doesn't feel right on my arm it will drive me nuts. I also get back pain and can't get comfortable, which just makes me more irritated, especially at work when I have to sit at my desk all day. Sometimes I'll wake up with a sore jaw from clenching my teeth during the night.

Thankfully, I'm out of college now and my job usually isn't very stressful (though sometimes very irritating)

I clench my jaw, which causes my TMJ to flare up and gives me headaches/migraines, my stomach gets insanely picky about what I can eat, sleep schedule gets shot to heck, and I find that I wake up with scratches on my hands and arms. Wow, I must be fun to live with when I'm stressed!

@belyndag: Yep, same here. Birthday at the end of May...sometimes I would totally forget until 2 or 3 days before.

Spring of senior year (just last year), I was flying across the country for interviews, getting ready to graduate, trying to pack up my stuff to move out of my off campus place having no idea where I was going to move to and had 4 finals that were all required for my majors. I really kicked and screamed through my degrees, so finals were enough to make me want to cry twice a year. Sometimes I feel guilty that I didn't try hard enough and other times I feel like I forced myself through college when some people really aren't cut out to sit in lecture halls. But it's over now! Hallelujah. (edit: Don't get me wrong, I loved college. Just not the school part ;))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Right before finals in college I would get itchy patches/rashes under my arms. It wasn't really until the end of college that I realize the correlation.

Now when i have a stressful day/week, my forehead breaks out.

It's annoying, but I just deal with it.

I'll get terrible stomach aches. I think I probably have had ulcers before, but never went to the DR. Tums help a little, but what helps the most is obviously the streesful situation going away!

I experience bouts of drunkness during times of stress.
They tend to come and go, usually in the evening, but sometimes before noon on weekends.

I used to pass out and wake up covered in blood, but medication has helped tremendously.

I actually have been out of work for almost 2 months now because of stress induced panic attacks, and a heightening of depression due to a hostile work environment. Currently, I'm trying a 3rd combination of medications in hopes of being able to stabilize enough to return to work.

The way companies treat their employees is downright ludicrous. I am literally treated as a number, a disposable asset, and told on a daily basis that I am a financial burden to the company, replaceable by a machine once they program one well enough. Apparently while I was out, upper management did some surveys asking how everyone felt about their position in the company, and now they're scrambling to figure out why everyone is so miserable, and feels like they don't matter... Perhaps its the 55 hour/week mandatory overtime schedule, the non-stop screaming customers who had to spend an hour to get to my level of tech support, and the fact we're told we're overpaid, and useless.

@waltertangofoxtrot: Meep, sounds like even today's job market is less stressful than your current job. I would dust off the resume and start looking!

@waltertangofoxtrot: Wow! WTF, indeed! I am the HR Director here, and I frequently have to do battle with Directors who treat their people like dirt. When I took this job 20 years ago the turnover was outrageous and working conditions were just short of sweatshop. Some good managers, some bad, and our CEO was a jerk. We got rid of him and most of the bad managers and problem employees. Things were muuuuch better for many years. I like to think I had some part in reducing turnover, improving salaries and conditions, accommodating disabilities, upgrading training, etc. Unfortunately, we have done such a fine job of improvinng that we are about to be sold to another company. This means that I will be in charge of laying off hundreds of people, most of whom I know. I fire bad employees all the time, but to cut loose people who are good and dependable employees is breaking my heart. And what no one here knows is that I'm being pushed out the door, too. It's hard to remain positive.

If I get stressed or anxious about something..hmm like yesterday getting called into the HR's office (she was commending me thank goodness) anyway I get really weird red splotches all over my face, neck, and chest. Very noticeable and embarrassing and I cannot do anything to control it....So I usually make some kind of joke about it and try to laugh it off..

I clench my jaw and my head has a tendency to move forward and down. The more stress I'm under, the closer to hypervigilance I get.

Moderate amounts of stress, will cause my mind and body to prepare to engage in combat. My hearing becomes more sensitive, my vision field narrows and my "situational awareness" increases dramatically. I constantly scan for and assess threats in public.

Most of this is due to mental illness, but a good deal of it stems from military training and experience. It's a good measure for me to know how well my medication is working.

It's a horribly uncomfortable state to live in. Because of it, I live life as a recluse or what's know to vets as "bunkering in".