Stress can be good or bad. Good stress is known as eustress and bad stress is distress. Eustress is stress that is beneficial when there is not too much of it. Eustress is stress that helps when there is a time crunch to get a project done or when there is danger. Eustress helps and like motivation in situations like this. It is when it is not used to motivate and becomes a continuous state of worry that it becomes a distress. Distress occurs when the chronic stress sets itself in motion and then becomes out of control.
Stress comes in different forms, it can be minor or it can be a chronic issue and continuously causing havoc on the body. There are people who believe that stress is just a “state of …show more content…
Chronic stress occurs when stress comes into someone’s’ life and starts to spiral out of control. Research has shown that the brain triggers hormones to release when stress occurs. When those hormones are triggered, there can be a hormonal imbalance (Mercola, 2015). When the imbalance occurs, the body becomes affected in other ways. The imbalance wreaks havoc and causes physical problems with the body to occur. Stress can make the immune system less effective. When this occurs, people become sick. Over long periods of time when stress becomes chronic it can cause other health issues to occur such as, keep the body from fighting infection, increase chances for heart disease, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases (Wenner,