How Some Stress Can Actually Be Good for You

(TIME) Stress is often viewed as an exclusively negative sensation: Work deadlines pile up family drama takes its toll busy schedules wear us thin and we wind up drained. Stress occurs when someone feels an imbalance between a challenge and the resources they have to deal with it says Kathleen Gunthert a professor of psychology at American University. Researchers have identified two different types of stress distress which refers to negative stress (a breakup) and eustress which refers to positive stress (starting a new job). Chronic stress defined as the physiological or psychological response to a prolonged internal or external stressful event" according to the American Psychological Association has been linked to unhealthy eating skin problems smaller brain size and even an increased likelihood of chronic disease. Read More