People often think stress looks emotional

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Stress and emotional states are often confused, but they are physiologically distinct; stress manifests through physical adaptations like waking at 3am, shallow breathing, constipation, jaw tension, bloating, chronic muscle guarding, fatigue with inability to stop moving, and feeling 'wired' but exhausted, which are the body's survival responses to prolonged pressure, vigilance, uncertainty, and stress that people often mistake for their personality.