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 sports and the second syllable accented in legal contexts) In some words, the reduction of a vowel depends on how quickly or carefully the speaker enunciates the word. For example, the "o" in "obscene" is commonly reduced to schwa, but in more careful enunciation it may also be pronounced as a full vowel (that of ). Compare this with the "o" in "gallon", which is never a full vowel, no matter how carefully one enunciates. Some monosyllabic English function words have a weak form with a reduced vowel, used when the word has no prosodic stress, and a phonemically distinct