Source: Toronto Hospital

Do you have:

• Muscle tightness, back and shoulder aches
• Dragging headaches that never go away
• Inability to sleep, waking in the night and being unable to get back to sleep, waking at dawn and lying sleepless for hours
• Pains that wander around the body, disappearing from one place only to appear in another
• Stomach, digestive, gastrointestinal problem without real physical cause
• Restlessness so that even if you get a chance to rest and relax, you cannot do so
• Gritting or grinding your teeth
• Numerous small accidents, inability to concentrate
• Mood swings, flying off the handle, weeping fits
• Increased outbreaks of arthritis, bursitis and any other-itis
• Increased reliance upon alcohol to relax, pills to sleep, tranquilizers to calm down
• Decreased socialization
• Fear of others, "can't-be=bothered" about others, blaming others for everything
• Palpitations or chest pains not due to angina or heart trouble
• Inability to carry out the normal tasks of life
• Increased forgetfulness, so that you worry about whether you might have Alzheimer's yourself
• Watching television for hours every day, even when you are not actually interested in the programs
• Having a feeling of despair, being overwhelmed, depressed, overanxious

Karen's note: many of these symptoms also indicate depression which should be treated immediately. I know...it took me too long to figure mine out and do something about it.