Review: Think of stress as something good.

Tittle of the Article: I love stress.
Author: Cath Janes
Date of Publication: Saturday 31, January 2009
Source:http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jan/31/work-life-balance-stress-at-work



Gabriela Garcia Fernandez.

The article "I love stress" by Cath Janes deals with the wrong use that people makes of the word "stress". The truth is that there are more than 650 definitions of stress and even the most well-known specilaists don't know what it really means.

According to Cath Jnaes people perceive stress as a common way to interpret any feeling of anxiety everywhere. Stress is many times even perceived as a disease and sometimes, the problem is not so but a simple imposibility to cope with challenges in life. In other words, people confuse stress with lack of courage.

This doesn't mean that stress doesn't exist at all. It is real and in some occasions it can be really dangerous. Stress can easily be felt at workplace and turn up in a real disease, but what happens is that in most of the cases people just overeact when facing problems and exaggerate. It is then when people tend to assume that they are stressed.

An specialist on the field explains in the article that nowaday people tend not to assume that stress is an integral part of the workplace. It's something inevitable that goes hand in hand with work. If people assume stress like that it wouldn't be so much discussion about it.There are also specialists who belive that stress is not only common in workplace but also necessary since it forces people to their full potential.

Nowadays, there's a huge "stress industry" which supports the belief that stree should be erradicated from people's lives. People is encouraged to fight against stress, to assume that they are stress when they are not, and even to undergo medical treatments when it isn´t necessary.On the other hand, there are those who believe that stress makes people more resilient and helps to deal better with challenges of working life. According to the author of the article, this is the only way in which we should think about stress.