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Natalie Blakeley Understanding Stress Activity 1 DISCUSS THE MEANING OF THE WORD STRESS Stress is a term that we often hear in day to day life. For example, Soldiers returning from the war in Iraq are suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mothers of young children are seemingly always stressed out and it is estimated that approximately 13.4 million working days are lost each year through stress related illness in Great Britain alone. But what exactly is this term that we hear so often? Seyle (1950) defined stress as "the individual's psychophysiological response, mediated largely by the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, to any demands made on the individual". It is the emotional and physical strain that is caused by how we respond to stressors and a stressor can be anything that causes the stress response. Whilst something can be a stressor to one person it may not have any effect on another. Therefore...

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