The term stress is now part and parcel of our life. It is not possible for one to do without stress in our present world. Although stress is beneficial to man, its negative effects are also enormous. Hardly can minutes past without one experiencing one form of stress or the other. Whenever we go about for our various daily chores, we must encounter one form of stress or the other.
Do you know that stress can be both good and bad to man? Yes! Stress can be beneficial and harmful to man. Normally, we need some little amount of stress if we must live. On the other hand, when stress becomes too much for us, it becomes a disease.
When stress is beyond the coping capability of an individual, it turns from been beneficial to been harmful. Thus, enormous dose of stress is pathological while small dose of stress is very vital for maintenance of normal life processes.
Just as the saying that one man's poison is another man's meat; what could be stress to an individual could turn out not to be stress to another individual. To some individuals, going to the stadium to watch a football match might just be fun but for another person going to the stadium might just be stress. Some students will see reading as stress while to some, reading could be noting but fun.
Ironically, as man is embracing the modern world, with much more sophisticated gadgets to make life easier; the amount of stress we encounter in our daily life continues to increase. Ordinarily, one should expect that stress should be reducing with modernization. But the reverse is the case. I wonder why a serious issue like stress is still unrecognized as a killer in this our present generation. Stress worsens the various sicknesses we suffer in life.
One thing is certain - we cannot avoid stress in our various life endeavors. Since stress is an inevitable part of our life, we must learn to manage and cope with stress.
