About stress 3

Seeing stress from a wider perspective, it becomes obvious that there is no life without stress.

Stress may be divided into:

* Stress – you may feel exhausted and tired.

* Distress – negative tension that is most often connected to fear for the obstacles ahead. You sense that there is more demanded from you than is possible for you to do, thus you feel that the situation is not under your control. Long-term distress may lead to falling ill.

* Hypostress is by nature low-level.

* Eustress – positive tension that helps one to motivate themselves, gives strength and courage. This helps one to adapt, develop and change.

Having too much stress may be lead one to become overly tense, this in turn may cause different problems. Too little stress is also not good, one can become weary and numb, having no glow to them. Certain amount of stress is good and necessary.

Stress may be induced by changes in your life, may it be a wedding, death of a loved one, relocating or changing jobs.

The way a stress-inducing event impacts you, depends a lot on how you construe the situation for yourself - is the situation positive or negative.

How do you regard your big events – with optimism or pessimism?