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There’s a whole new way to think about stress. Sure, some stress is inevitable, but being “stressed out” isn’t. In fact, we can learn to rechannel the powerful stress activators in our lives to make us even more effective. Hamlet spoke of “suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” These days we simply use the word “stress” to describe that feeling. And if you ask 10 random people if they feel stressed, chances are that at least 9 will reply with a resounding, “Yes!” Indeed, the very way we use the word implies that we are its victims—as in, “I’m under so much stress” or “I’m completely stressed out.” There’s now a better way to look at this picture, a way to move from victim to victor. The first step is to look to the science behind it all because in the science lies a whole new message about stress. Science allows us to understand what the stress response is and why our bodies react the way they do. Like all living creatures, we’re mapped to respond instinctually in certain ways, and generally for good reasons. We know, for example, that in times of emergency, we effortlessly shift into a different biological mode. Based on our perception of the crisis, our brain

Who reads The End of Stress As We Know It?

Author

Bruce McEwen, Elizabeth Norton Lasley, Elizabeth Lasley

Publisher

National Academies Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309510554

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Family & Relationships, Management

Rating

4.3 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14