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 second syllable is unstressed, the first "o" is pronounced with a full vowel (the diphthong of ), and the second "o" with a reduced vowel (schwa). However, in "photography" and "photographer", where the stress moves to the second syllable, the first syllable now contains schwa while the second syllable contains a full vowel (that of ). There are a number of English verb-adjective pairs that are distinguished solely by vowel reduction. For example, in some dialects, "separate" as a verb (as in 'what separates nation from nation') has a full final vowel, , whereas the corresponding adjective (as in 'they