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  2. Eustress - Wikipedia

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    Eustress is the positive cognitive response to stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfilment or other positive feelings. Hans Selye created the term as a subgroup of stress [3] to differentiate the wide variety of stressors and manifestations of stress. Eustress is not defined by the stress or type, but rather how one perceives ...

  3. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    The term "eustress" comes from the Greek root eu-which means "good" (as in "euphoria"). [6] Eustress results when a person perceives a stressor as positive. [7] "Distress" stems from the Latin root dis-(as in "dissonance" or "disagreement"). [6] Medically defined distress is a threat to the quality of life. It occurs when a demand vastly ...

  4. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Stress (biology) Schematic overview of the classes of stresses in plants. Neurohormonal response to stress. Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition. [1] When stressed by stimuli that alter an organism's environment, multiple systems respond across the ...

  5. Hans Selye - Wikipedia

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    Died. October 16, 1982. (1982-10-16) (aged 75) Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Other names. Selye János (Hungarian) János Hugo Bruno " Hans " Selye CC (/ ˈsɛljeɪ / [dubious – discuss]; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛjɛ]; January 26, 1907 – October 16, 1982) was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who ...

  6. Chronic stress - Wikipedia

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    Chronic stress is the physiological or psychological response induced by a long-term internal or external stressor. [1] The stressor, either physically present or recollected, will produce the same effect and trigger a chronic stress response. [1] There is a wide range of chronic stressors, but most entail relatively prolonged problems ...

  7. Mental distress - Wikipedia

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    Woman portraying the emotion of stress. Mental distress or psychological distress encompasses the symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary. Mental distress can potentially lead to a change of behavior, affect a person's emotions in a negative way, and affect ...

  8. Psychological stress and sleep - Wikipedia

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    There are consistent stressors in life, some that are good, referred to as eustress, and some that are bad, which are referred to as distress. While these stressors have not necessarily increased over the years, the overall average stress levels have increased as data has shown that the typical high school student today has the same amount of ...

  9. List of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 September 2024. The following is a list of mental disorders as defined at any point by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). A mental disorder, also known as a mental illness, mental health condition, or psychiatric ...