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Originally posted by TM875
It's the self's pressures to conform to the environment around the self. That means, it is created by humanity to deal with its natural surroundings. Thus, stress is NOT real.
This falls under the same paradigm as Einstein's debate on the reality of time. If we, as a society, arbitrailily create something - does that mean that it is real? Time almost certainly does not exist, for it is something that our selves use to represent ourselves. Therefore, under the same logic, stress does not exist because it is something that humanity has created to express humanity's natural surroundings. The effect of stress occurs, but only because the psyche allows itself to feel that way.
Saying stress is real would be like saying that schizophrenics see real people when they hallucinate.
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I would like to add to this by saying that stress is not a "physical" thing. It is an intangible. A few years back, I read an article discussing the reality of stress and it made me think. Stress is not a physical thing, but rather the result of our fears, worries, excitements, etc. For example, I may have a huge mid-term coming up and I would say that I am stressed. I am not "stressed", it is that I am fearful of not passing or doing well. See, emotions are real, based physiologically and mentally and chemically. We can quantify these by how fast our heart beats, how high our blood sugar is, etc. When we feel stressed, it is actually our emotions, but because we can feel many emotions at once, it is easy for society to place a term to this and subjectify as stress. Yet stress is a collective of emotions.