Medical Questions » Stress Questions » Question No. 956
| Question: | How do doctors define stress and its causes? |
| Answer: | Doctors have no special definition of stress other than that used in everyday speech. Dictionaries define stress as a disturbing physiological or psychological influence which produces a state of severe tension in an individual.
The causes of stress are innumerable, and include everything from excessive mortgage repayments and marriage strife to coping with young children and your relatives, job security, separation and divorce, leaving home, exams, unemployment, poor health, work responsibility, and a death in the family. You name it, and it can probably cause stress in someone.
Stress is not something new to modern man. Stress has always been with us, but the form has changed over the years. Most of the above problems were experienced thousands of years ago, but in Australia we do not have to worry about starvation and a life expectancy, problems that still occur in many poorer countries.
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