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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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There is nothing in Einstein’s theories that would indicate that Time/Space is not “real.” Time/Space is real and is relative to the reference frame to which you belong. Using it as an example to prove that stress isn't real is beyond a rational argument.
The term "stress" is a label we've used to articulate a real experience. Call it whatever you want, if someone on the street stopped you and put a gun to your face you would feel stress. There are physical manifestations of this stress in your autonomic nervous system. You may begin to sweat, experience “tunnel vision” (high degree of focus on the event that is causing the stress), fear or "fight or flight" response would trigger, etc., etc.
Edit: Gramar