http://giftedspecialneeds.com/?p=376 The World of the Twice Exceptional Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://giftedspecialneeds.com/?p=376#comment-29 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:25:23 +0000 http://giftedspecialneeds.com/?p=376#comment-29 The word “Stress” actually relates to wear and tear as when the rubber meets the road on a tire or the brake pads pressing up against the rotor in the wheel. The term as it applies to living organisms was first introduced by Hans Seyle in the 1930’s who defined it as the consequence of the failure of an organism (human or animal) to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats, whether actual or imagined. Thus stress symptoms are the manifestation of a chronic state of responses to stress triggers that are actually benign. Even a thought can set off the same response mechanism that would be in play while standing in front of a hungry lion. Hence, Seyle’s definition still reaches to the heart of stress management; the idea of the response being inappropriate and engaging in a process of altering ones misperception of pending disaster or imminent danger.

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