In 1936 an endocrinologist, Hans Sdye, discovered stress. Stress is present in everybody. It occurs daily in people’s lives. Stress is a body condition that occurs in response to actual or anticipated difficulties in life (Rice, 1987). Stress can also be defined as the sum of physical and mental responses our bodies experience in relationship to any change. There are many causes of stress and many different ways to handle stress. Stress can also be harmful …showed first 75 words of 1593 total…

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