Stress Summary

The author, Seal, (1997), discusses stress. He defines stress as the physical and emotional response to a stimulus or stressor. Big life events, physical disasters, daily problems cause stress, which we have to deal with.
Seyle, a physiologist, has studied reaction to stress in animals and humans and describes three stages in his general adaptation syndrome. First, in the alarm reaction, we recognize a danger. Second, in the resistance reaction we try to solve or avoid the problem. Finally, if there is no solution we enter the exhaustion stage. Seyle says in rats you can expect their reaction to be the same but in humans you can’t. Moreover, humans are reactions varied and depend on who is the receiver and how well he or she receive the stressor and whether the person who receives the stressor is going to handle it or not.

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