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STRESS Cecilia Jansson H?gskolan P? ?land F?retagsekonomi English essay 09.11.2004 1 Introduction 3 2 What is stress? 3 3 Indicates, stress factors 3 4 How to eliminate stress? 4 5 Management 4 6 Conclusion 5 Introduction I chose stress because I find this subject current and interesting. I guess everybody has been feeling stressed some times these days. We are living in a high technology society where time is money. This makes people stressed and leads many times to burnt-out syndrome. Actually, I think stress is our “new” national disease. And if we don’t “slow down” it will cost us and our society a lot, in the way of rehabilitate, money in many ways and so forth. Another thing is how stress affect the children, today you can read about children at day-care, who has anxiety or/and depression. Is this how we wont to live?? Well, I will in this essay write about stress as an illness, syndromes- how you recognize them and what you can/should think of in your daily life to avoid to be ill. What is stress? One definition of stress is change. When you change something in your daily routines your body react with stress. It can be emotional or physical, like hormonal changes as puberty or PMS, arguments, disagreements and so on. Its not only negative things, the positive influence is fore example new awareness, an exciting new perspective or help compel us to action. But what we think of when we hear the word stress, is more like; worry, anger, distrust, rejections or some thing like that. As I said, stress can be both negative and positive, it depends on how we react to it. What makes me stressed doesn’t have to make you stressed. We are all different, and react in different ways. Our personal stress level depends on many things, but the main things are how strong we are physically and emotionally, the same as with many other things in our life. Indicates, stress factors As I mentioned, all kind of changes to your body is stress. That’s why