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Catastrophes: The Three Categories Of Stress

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Stress is the process of measuring and responding to a threatening or challenging event. If it lasts a short time it can actually be beneficial and can mobilize the immune system to fight off infections and heal our wounds. Stress has an arousal property that motivates us to solve our problems. Extreme or prolonged stress on the other hand can be very harmful and can lead to chronic disease. Stressors fall into three categories: Catastrophic, significant life changes, and daily hassles. All can be bad for us. Catastrophes are things are are unpredictable big events such as war, earthquakes, hurricanes, and famines. Those who survive these suffer a great amount of stress and those who move to another location also suffer stress. They suffer

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