Stress is a conscious or unconscious psychological feeling results from physical or mental pressure which overwhelms adaptive capacities. It is a psychical process initiated by the events which threaten, challenge, or harms an organism or which exceeds coping resources.
A person typically gets stressed when positive or negative experiences temporarily strain or excess adaptive capacities. Stress is highly personalized and depends on variables such as rate, novelty, intensity, duration, personal interpretation of input, and experiential or genetic factors.
Stress is a common part of a person's life but sometimes a person doesn’t recognize the effect of stress on him. It impacts people in different ways and can have emotional and physical effects. Stress-related disorders include mental health disorders which are the result of an atypical response to short and long-term anxiety due to mental, physical, or emotional stress.
There are different types of stress which impact people directly. The three most common type of stress include:
Short-term stress: It is the most common type of stress. It is harmless; however, it can cause a feeling of exhaustion, worry, and tension.
Chronic stress: It is long-term stress which involves something more substantial than short term stress and can be damaging.
Traumatic stress: it is a type of stress which happens when people experience a violent or disaster encounter. It can cause tremendous emotional harm such as feelings of fear, pain; anxiety even after the disaster has gone.