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The Most Common Types of Stress

By Joanne King

Everyone has to deal with stress, no matter how old they are, where they live, or what gender they are. We all have different tolerances, and each one of us handles stress differently, but we all have to face it. Stress can be broken down into four different categories, which we learn about during this article.

Eustress is the best type of stress to have, as it affects you in a positive way. Eustress is kind of like a controlled stress that helps give you that extra boost that you may need to get the job done, or do your best. Just like you hear some people say they work best under pressure, they are talking about eustress. Eustress can help you focus and concentrate better on the task at hand, giving you that competitive edge, that extra driving force. Eustress can add that measure of excitement to an otherwise droll existence.

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Do You Do Manic?

By H. Bernard Wechsler

The headline in Science Daily read, How Manic Thinking Makes us Happy, Energized and Self-Confident. Does that arouse your curiosity and even make you smile as you think – weird? Are they suggesting we reinforce a new style of craziness?

The first thing I searched were the credentials of the authors behind the research; too many articles get published that are bad-science and later die a horrible death.

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