VAISHALI GILL
Stress is a normal biological reaction to a potentially dangerous situation. When you encounter sudden stress, your brain floods your body with chemicals and hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol.That gets your heart beating faster and sends blood to muscles and important organs. You feel energized and have heightened awareness so you can focus on your immediate needs. There are two major types of stress i.e., acute stress and chronic stress. Stress can come from many sources, which are known as stressors. Because our experience of what is considered "stressful" is created by our unique perceptions of what we encounter in life (based on our own mix of personality traits, available resources, and habitual thought patterns), a situation may be perceived as "stressful" by one person and merely "challenging" by someone else. Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning. Stress produces numerous physical and mental symptoms which vary according to everyone’s situational factors. The stress is not always to avoid, sometimes stress plays a positive role in our life. Remember the examination days we remember all these things revised in the eleventh hour while most of thing read days before examination are forgotten.Because we were best under pressure. Cortisol can help control blood sugar levels, regulate metabolism, help reduce inflammation, and assist with memory formulation.