Everyone experiences stress in their lives during one moment or another. The fact is that stress is part of life. Stress, however, is universal, normal, inevitable, and necessary.
Stress is related to positive and negative events as well as internal and external demands.
As you know, we live in a stressful culture, especially in school. Stress may be so much part of life for some of us that living a life of stress may even be considered the norm. One of the first steps to reducing stress is to become aware of what may contribute to your feelings of stress in your life. Once you can identify the specific sources of stress in your life, you can then find ways to manage or counteract the stress. One way of identifying what brings stress into your life is by identifying the physical symptoms of stress.