{"id":27039,"date":"2017-06-08T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/afrocentric\/so-what-is-stress\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:09:32","slug":"so-what-is-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/so-what-is-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"So What IS Stress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13629 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/stress-support-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"stress-support\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" \/>So, what is stress?<\/strong> Well, the definition is that stress is your response to demands and challenges. This response may be physical or psychological and is nearly always a combination of both. The subtle but crucial thing here is that stress is something we experience due to our own response to things. Stress comes from within us. It is triggered and caused by external things but is created in ourselves. This happens when we do not feel that we can cope or manage a situation; we experience stress when things \u201cget too much\u201d for us. There are many things that cause stress (called \u201cstressors\u201d) but some of the worst include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Loss \u2013 death of a loved one, divorce or separation, getting fired<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Change \u2013 changing jobs, moving house, new baby, new marriage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Illness \u2013 personal or family<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Money worry \u2013 indebtedness and other financial concerns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Conflict \u2013 family, social, workplace<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You can see that not all of these are \u201cnegative\u201d things as such, but the changes involved do create stress for us even so. The other important thing is to understand that stress results when your coping capacity is exceeded \u2013 some people have more and others less, coping capacity. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The secret to handling stress lies in building coping capacity (because avoiding stressors is hard or even impossible).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-life","category-stress"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 12:43:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27489,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27039\/revisions\/27489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}