Stress is a concept that can be useful in efforts to understand how and why some people become sick while others become strong in the same environment. Misunderstandings Stress has gotten a bad name in recent years. He said that when he came from Europe to attend medical school he did not understand the English language or physics very well. He was curious about why different diseases, illnesses, and toxins cause glands and organs to react in similar ways. He described his findings first as biological stress and later as psychological stress.
People confuse a stimulus with their reaction to it .
Stress is sometimes said to be in the job, home, or school, and sometimes said to be in the person. In physics a stressor is an external force attempting to deform an object. The effect on an object is measured as strain. There is no stress in any situation until a person has a stress reaction . What is stressful for one person is not stressful for another.