About Stress

Byline: DR. S.M. ALAM Stress is a feeling that is created when one reacts to a particular event. It is the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. The events that provoke stress are called stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations o everything from outright physical danger to making a class presentation or taking a semester's worth of the toughest subject. Stress is simply a fact of nature -- forces from the outside world affecting the individual. The individual responds to stress in ways that affect the individual as well as their environment. Hence, all living creatures are in a constant interchange with their surroundings, both physically and behaviorally.