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 "lock and key". Compare also definite article reduction. The "'em" form of "them" is derived from the otherwise obsolete pronoun "hem", an unusual form of suppletion. The homonymy resulting from the use of some of the weak forms can lead to confusion in writing; the identity of the weak forms of "have" and "of" sometimes leads to misspellings such as "would of", "could of", etc. for "would have", "could have", etc. English weak forms are distinct from the clitic forms found in some languages, which are words fused with an adjacent word, as in Italian "mangiarla", "to-eat-it". Stress and vowel