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Why is psychological stress stressful?

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Why is psychological stress stressful?

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A model for describing stress Firstly, as already described, it has been observed that the entire stress response can be activated simply by thinking about something that is stressful. That in itself is remarkable. But a fundamental question remains, and that is:- What things are psychologically stressful, and how do they become so? One of the things that become obvious as one reflects on the nature of stress is that what is stressful for one person may not be stressful for another. So when exposed to the same situation or stressor, there are individual differences in the perception of its stressfulness. What may be learned from the above observation is that stress is the consequence of the way experiences are interpreted. The psychological filters through which the stressors may be perceived all vary with the individual. In fact the external demands or stressors are only one aspect of the stress process. For as the individual estimates the level of stressfulness of those external dema

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