My husband and I fight all the time, he can't sleep, he complains about headaches, stomach aches. The kids are cranky and yesterday I almost hit my youngest for fighting with his sister. We're behind in our payments and we have a meeting that involves our creditors in two weeks. I don't know how we're going to make it. Talk about stress, we're up to our eyeballs in it.
Stress is our response to anything that threatens our survival.
That survival can be physical, emotional, financial, or any kind of survival that's important to us. But not all stress is bad. When we are excited about something the anticipation we feel, our mental and physical readiness for the task, is called eustress. Eustress energizes us. It's what keeps us going during seeding or harvesting.