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your body preparing to fight a tiger that is actually an email.
means The physical and mental strain that comes from feeling overwhelmed by pressure or demands.
from From Latin 'stringere' meaning 'to draw tight' — the same root behind 'strict' and 'constrict.' It traveled through Old French 'estrece' (narrowness, oppression) into Middle English, where it first meant hardship or adversity in a general sense. Only in the 20th century did physiologists and psychologists narrow it into its modern meaning: the body's internal tightening in response to strain — a word that was always about being pulled taut, long before inboxes existed to do the pulling.
- word theft
- engineers had it first, measuring load on bridges
- selye's accident
- he coined it as a translation slip, kept it anyway
- good kind exists
- eustress is the same response, just labeled positive
- same hormones
- cortisol spikes identically for deadlines and actual danger