Stressors, FFF, cortisol

Stress: A physiological and or/ psychological state of tension that occurs when an individual is confronted with a situation that is threatening or challenging.

Stressor: any person, object or event that challenges or threatens a person, thus prompting a stress response.

Can be from internal or external environment

Eustress: A negative psychological response to a stressor

Eustress: A positive psychological response to a stressor

Fight-flight-freeze response: an involuntary and automatic response to a threat that takes the form of either escaping it, confronting it, or freezing in the face of it.

Cortisol: a hormone that is released in times of stress to aid the body in initiating and maintaining heightened arousal

Acute stress: A form of stress characterised by intense psychological and physiological symptoms that are brief

Chronic stress: A form of stress that is persistent or long term

Internal Stressors: A stimulus from within a person's body that prompts the stress response

External stressors: A stimulus from outside a person's body that prompts the stress response