First of all, stress is anything that effects us. There's distress (bad - which most people just call stress) and eustress (good).
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Originally posted by Nisses
if stress doesn't have a basis in physical reality, an anti-depressant, which is a mixture of chemicals, shouldn't be able to influence it
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Of course stress has a basis in physical reality. If it didn't, we wouldnt be able to feel it. Your entire personality and every emotion you feel is caused, at least in some part, by the chemical make-up in your brain. Stress is part of this. Certain chemicals being released give you a 'stressed' feeling and your body responds to that. Therefore, and anti-depressant (made up of chemicals which counteract the chemical imbalance in a 'depressed' brain) is actually very useful (assuming you have the right combination).
/hoping that made the kind of sense I wanted it to.....