Medically reviewed by Melissa Bronstein, LICSW General adaptation syndrome (GAS), also known as Selye's syndrome, describes the changes your body goes through when you experience stress. It involves ...

Are you feeling increased stress these days? If so, you’re not alone. Stress and anxiety are at an all-time high. Turn on any news station and you’ll see that today’s chronic ...

Have you ever read the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to someone? Maybe you remember it from when you were a child, and someone read it to you. Well, the story, as you know, goes like ...

Acute vs. Chronic Stress Stress is not inherently harmful; it depends on how we experience and interpret it. Hans Selye, a pioneer in stress research, distinguished between eustress (positive ...

When Hans Selye (1907-1982) was a young endocrinologist ... After Selye became a well-known authority on stress, he authored a book titled “The Stress of Life,” in which he strongly encouraged ...