Mental Health and Overwhelm: Recognising When It’s More Than Just Stress

Feeling overwhelmed is an experience that happens to everyone from time to time, for different reasons. Whether it’s your job, your studies, your family, or your romantic relationships, life can become inherently overwhelming at times. You may be asking yourself, is this normal? Why am I getting overwhelmed so easily? Does everybody feel this way? Can I be too overwhelmed? To answer these questions briefly, feeling overwhelmed is an entirely natural human emotion that everyone will experience during their life.