The meaning of stress as given by Oxford Dictionary -- ( pressure or worry resulting from ) mental or physical distress , difficult circumstances etc. Thus burden which is difficult or seems to be difficult or inability to bear gives birth to pressure which in turn creates worry and anxiety. All these are the very strong force to create mental or emotional strain and tension with the follow up result of stress. Thus the resultant stress is from uncontrolled mental emotion.
A word has its many meaning. But while discussing depression the above meaning is applicable to stress. Thus stress is that condition of an individual which makes him inactive. If the intensity is great a kind of madness will be apparent or a suicidal tendency will grow to escape from the relatives , from the society. Hence, stress is the resultant force for the mental or emotional strain or tension due to anxiety, burden , pressure , worry , aversion and anger.

Answered by Sujit Kumar , an ibibo Citizen, at 11:44 AM on October 09, 2008

What you have stated as "does not mean" are the resultant effect of stress.So the relevance of stress management today.

Answered by bobby , an ibibo Advisor, at 10:16 PM on September 26, 2008

I think it means everything that u have mentioned , sir. What else could it be? Stress is the pressure of the mind on account of extreme tension.

Answered by Kashyap , an ibibo Citizen, at 10:36 PM on September 25, 2008

Is melancholy incapacity, or is incapacity melancholic?

If sadness were to always follow stress and strain, and invariably precede by failure, what is the emotional capacity of the mind, that is, how much can it take? If an athlete can train her/his body to perform more and sustain more than fellow humans, can there be a way to make the mind more capable of dealing with emotional drain? Why are there so many questions when there are always so few answers? To protect oneself one has to be aware of what can hurt. Unless the arrow is identified the amour cannot be designed.

What does hurt the mind? It is always a failure or sometimes even the fear of a failure! Failure is perceived or anticipated incapacity to meet the needs of one’s economy or emotions. This logically dissolves into the rhetoric whether emotional equilibrium is suffice to satiate needs that always have a definitive monetary price tag, and would economic freedom to indulge in exuberance would gratify the demands and desires of emotions!

What would a better state of living be? To begin with let us explore the economic well being which many feel can easily be assessed, defined and successfully accomplished. In the words of Gibbons, the definitive authority on the rise and fall of a culturally rich extravaganza, the answer is interesting, and can perhaps be applied at all times, in all times. He said,”According to the scales of Switzerland, I am a rich man; and I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.” How wondrous would it be even to dream of this state; but then to be rich, or even assume to satisfy one that the self is rich, is not a guarantee for a life free of stress. The rich and the poor have an equal amount of tears stored in their eyes and the mind opens these reservoirs when emotional stress threatens to break the dam of security. So, is emotional stress more difficult to cope with than economic stress? Perhaps yes, depending on one’s capacity to cope with either hunger or humiliation. If the hunger of pride can be suppressed, if the humiliation of hunger can be ignored, if the tenacity of temptation be shelved and if one can just be oneself, well, life can be without stress. Let us therefore define stress to understand, interpret and devise strategies to counter its influence on well-being.

STRESS is and can actually be either EUSTRESS or DISTRESS. (In a lighter vein, I do recollect an ill-meaning person saying that the third form of stress was mistress!!). Over the years, just as how good words have become bad, and bad become good, unfortunately unknown to the moralists of modern Tamilnadu, (and here I mean both the protagonists and the antagonists of the shameful farce enacted in the tragic-comedy with a three letter title), the word stress has become associated with its sub-division distress, and eustress is ignored.

Even if we were to follow the last sheep in the line and accept stress as meaning distress, it would help to know the different types of distress. To begin with, let us enlist the types of stress (henceforth synonymous in this article with distress).

There are different types of stress!

* Disabling stress
* Disintegrating stress
* Desired stress
* Deliberate stress
* Dazed stress, and,
* Divine/irrational/incomprehensible fatality masquerading as stress.



It may perhaps help to facilitate the faculties of the mind of the distant yet endangered reader, to comprehend each of these, however concisely compressed this composition be.

Disabling stress:

In these cases, one becomes incapacitated in the present so that the future goes bleaker and blank. The situations vary with age. In adolescence, a rejected poetic attempt can trigger an inability to do erstwhile capable tasks, and, with physiology partially inclined towards male exhibitionism, beards grow and

Answered by Dr Rudhran , an ibibo Citizen, at 8:59 PM on September 25, 2008