Stress is a normal reaction to everyday pressures, but can become unhealthy when it upsets your day-to-day functioning. Stress involves changes affecting nearly every system of the body, influencing how people feel and behave. By causing mind–body changes, stress contributes directly to psychological and physiological disorder and disease and.

The 3 types of stress and how to manage them. The APA recognizes the three main buckets of stress as acute, episodic acute, and chronic. Let's take a look at what each one looks and feels like and explore how to cope with them: Advertisement 1. Acute stress