Stress: Stress is common within our lives, but how we perceive the stress is how we will respond. Typically, stress is associated with negative thoughts such as waiting for a doctor’s report, parent-teacher interviews, and job interviews, all of which create higher levels of stress. But stress can be our friend, such as within sports at a last-minute buzzer beater, the birth of a child, or about to clear a difficult video game level. There are various types of stress and all of which can last longer, shorter, be more intensive, minor. Some examples are,

Work stress: Difficulties concerning coworkers, staff, management, pay, relocation, job assignments.

Personal stress: stemming from over avenues currently habiting in real-time events such as injury.

Relationship stress: Hardships with managing breakups, entering a new friendship/intimate relationship, difficult current relationships.

Financial stress: Finding yourself struggling to make end meets or providing food on the table, paying rent and saving money.

Acute Stress: A form of stress short is length that typically occurs with obstacles or damage such as meeting a tight deadline or narrowly avoiding a car accident.

Episodic stress: A form of stress that occurs on a constant basis, putting the individual in a constant space of stress typically seen with palliative care nurses, police/correction officers, and Dispatch callers.

Chronic Stress: A duration of stress over a lengthy period that can be overwhelming with physiological effects such as living in a high-crime neighborhood, in an unhealthy relationship, and long-term injury.

Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change. – Peter G. Hanson