- A Guide To Stress
First described by Hans Selye is 1936, stress is the body’s reaction to a wide range of strong external stimuli, either physiological or psychological. The effects of stimuli may vary from person to person in as much that a person may find a particular event quite stressful while another may not even be affected by the same event at all. Further, Selye described the general adaptation syndrome brought about by stress as to having three stages: alarm reaction in which the body perceives and identifies external stimuli; this is followed by the adaptation itself, in which the body applies the supposed measures to counteract the stressor; when the body begins to run out of defenses, then the body engages in exhaustion.
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