Stress results when something causes your body to behave as if it were under siege triggering physiologic and behavioral responses that is aimed at reestablishing the predefined steady state (homeostasis) essential for life and well-being. Sources of stress can be physical, like injury or illness. Or they can be emotional, like marital unhappiness, job and financial loses and the death of a loved one. Stress can also come from occupational pressures and obligations that are not rewarding and perceived to be out of control.
When stress occurs, the body prepares to take action through a fight-or-flight response . . .
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