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 unstressed vowels also derive historically from stressed vowels, due to shifts of stress over time (such as stress shifting away from the final syllable of French loan words, like "ballet" and "bureau", in British English), or the loss or change of stress in compound words or phrases (as in "óverseas vóyage" from "overséas" or "óverséas" plus "vóyage"). There is a tendency, though, for such vowels to become reduced over time, especially in common words. With vowels represented as and , it may be hard to ascertain whether they represent a full vowel or a reduced vowel. A word that illustrates