Good Stress: When Stress Can Help (and When It Can Hurt)
Sep 27, 2023 · Good stress helps you feel excited and energized, and it's important to have it in your life. While bad stress can harm your health, good stress can promote well-being. Changing your perception of stress can help. So can adding positive activities to promote eustress (aka, the good kind of stress).
Why Some Stress Is Good for You - Psychology Today
Dec 18, 2016 · Is Some Stress Good for Us? Some researchers have suggested that exposure to a moderate level of stress that you can master can actually make you stronger and better able to manage stress.
Your body knows the difference between good stress and bad stress: Do you?
Oct 26, 2023 · Healthy stress levels help build resilience, says Safia Debar, MBBS, a stress management expert at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London. In this expert alert, Dr. Debar explains the difference between good and bad stress and how to tell when you are in danger of overload.
4 Benefits of Stress You Didn’t Know About - Healthline
Aug 14, 2018 · You've might have been told stress it's not good for your health. While that's generally true, here are four instances when stress is beneficial.
Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It
Sep 3, 2015 · With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as...
Stress Can Be Good for You - Psychology Today
Aug 20, 2020 · From physical thriving to post-traumatic growth, stress can have surprising benefits. It also happens to be a common ingredient of our most meaningful accomplishments—be it career success,...
The Surprising Benefits of Stress - Greater Good
Oct 20, 2015 · People complain about being stressed out. But we’re learning that moderate amounts of stress have powerful benefits. The stress response is designed to help us react when something potentially threatening happens, to help us deal with it and learn from it.
Researchers find out why some stress is good for you
Apr 16, 2013 · Chronic stress is known to cause major health problems, yet acute stress is thought to improve people's performance and health. A new study by UC Berkeley professor Daniela Kaufer shows why that is. Stress generates new nerve cells in the brain that, two weeks later, help people learn better.
Good Stress: Can Stress Be Positive? - Health
Aug 25, 2022 · Yes, it does: Good stress, also known as eustress, is "the positive stress response involving optimal levels of stimulation," according to the American Psychological Association (APA). In...
How Stress Affects Your Health—And Why It Can Be Good - TIME
Mar 14, 2024 · Stress has become such a wellness buzzword that the quest to get rid of it can feel, well, stressful. But stress isn’t always the enemy. In fact, research suggests some is actually good for...