Stress (biology) management, anxiety, and depression. Over the long term, distress can lead to diminished health and/or increased propensity to illness; to avoid this, stress must be managed. Stress management encompasses techniques intended to equip a person with effective coping mechanisms for dealing with psychological stress, with stress defined as a person's physiological response to an internal or external stimulus that triggers the fight-or-flight response. Stress management is effective when a person uses strategies to cope with or alter stressful situations. There are several ways of coping with stress, such as controlling the source of stress or learning to set limits and
Stress and vowel reduction in English the weak form is much more common (since it is relatively rare for function words to receive prosodic stress). This is particularly true of the English articles "the", "a", "an", whose strong forms are used within normal sentences only on the rare occasions when definiteness or indefiniteness is being emphasized: "Did you find the cat? I found a "" cat." (i.e. maybe not the one you were referring to). Notice that the weak form of "the" is typically before a vowel-initial word ("the apple") but before a consonant-initial word ("the pear"), although this distinction is being lost in the United