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  2. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Psychological stress can be external and related to the environment, [3] but may also be caused by internal perceptions that cause an individual to experience anxiety or other negative emotions surrounding a situation, such as pressure, discomfort, etc., which they then deem stressful. Hans Selye (1974) proposed four variations of stress. [4]

  3. Stress-related disorders - Wikipedia

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    However, the World Health Organization's ICD-11 excludes OCD but categorizes PTSD, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), adjustment disorder as stress-related disorders. [2] Stress is a conscious or unconscious psychological feeling or physical condition resulting from physical or mental 'positive or negative pressure' that overwhelms ...

  4. Eustress - Wikipedia

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    Distress is the most commonly referred to type of stress, having negative implications, whereas eustress is usually related to desirable events in a person's life. [17] Selye first differentiated the two in an article he wrote in 1975. [ 18 ]

  5. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, extreme stress (e.g. trauma) is a requisite factor to produce stress-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. [6] Chronic stress also shifts learning, forming a preference for habit based learning, and decreased task flexibility and spatial working memory, probably through alterations of the dopaminergic systems. [39]

  6. Psychosocial distress - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms manifest as psychological disorders, decreased ability to work and communicate, and a range of health issues related to stress and metabolism. Distress management aims to improve the disease symptoms and wellbeing of patients, it involves the screening and triage of patients to optimal treatments and careful outcome monitoring.

  7. Diathesis–stress model - Wikipedia

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    Stress is a life event or series of events that disrupt a person's psychological equilibrium and may catalyze the development of a disorder. [3] Thus the diathesis-stress model serves to explore how biological or genetic traits ( diatheses ) interact with environmental influences ( stressors ) to produce disorders such as depression, anxiety ...

  8. Perseverative cognition - Wikipedia

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    Perseverative cognition is involved with a “stress-disease link". [1] Further, it is the thinking about the stress, or rather the obsessing over it, that establishes a link between stress and disease. Perseverative cognition also focuses on the effects that worrying over anticipated events have on the physical body and mind. [2]

  9. Stress management - Wikipedia

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    Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of psychological stress, especially chronic stress, generally for the purpose of improving the function of everyday life. Stress produces numerous physical and mental symptoms which vary according to each individual's ...