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## Meeting Life Challenges ### Nature, Types And Sources of Stress - Eustress is the term used to describe the level of stress that is good for the individual and is one of a person's best assets for achieving peak performance and managing minor crises. - Eustress, however, has the potential of t...

## Meeting Life Challenges ### Nature, Types And Sources of Stress - Eustress is the term used to describe the level of stress that is good for the individual and is one of a person's best assets for achieving peak performance and managing minor crises. - Eustress, however, has the potential of turning into "distress" - Stress can be described as the pattern of responses an organism makes to stimuli. - An event that destructs the equilibrium and exceeds a person's ability to cope. ### Nature of Stress - The word stress has its origin in the Latin words *strictus*, meaning tight or narrow, and *stringere,* the verb meaning to tighten. - These words reflect the internal feelings of tightness and constriction of the muscles and breathing reported by many people under stress. - Stress is often explained in terms of characteristics of the environment that are disruptive to the individual. - Stressors are events that cause our body to give the stress response. Such events include noise, crowding, a bad relationship, or daily commuting to school, or office. - The reaction to external stressors is called "strain". ### Psychological Stress - These are stresses that we generate ourselves in our minds. - Frustration results from the blocking of needs and motives by something or someone that hinders us from achieving a desired goal. There could be a number of causes of frustration such as social discrimination, interpersonal hurt, low grades in school, etc.