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In four pages this paper discusses Hans Selye, examines his definition of stress, and considers his views on how stress affects people in life. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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fact, while Dr. Selye is not responsible for introducing stress into the life experience, he is credited with introducing the actual term into everyday life. As a medical student
in Prague back in the mid-1920s, Dr. Selye noted in his research marked similar symptoms that existed among patients who were being treated for many different illnesses that manifested themselves
within a few days after hospitalization. These symptoms included extreme fatigue, loss of weight, body aches, and joint pain (Sapolsky, 1988). Dr. Selye wondered, "How could so many
pathogens all cause the same set of symptoms?" (Sapolsky, 1988, p. 38) This question went unanswered for about a decade, during
which time Dr. Selye was conducting experiments on rats regarding what he believed to be a new ovarian hormone. He injected the rats with this alleged hormone over a
period of days, after which time the rats began developing gastric ulcers, overactive and enlarged adrenal glands, and exhibited signs of compromised immune systems (Sapolsky, 1988). Interestingly, the group
of rats being injected only with a saline solution and not the hormone exhibited identical symptoms/effects. Dr. Selye determined that these rats were not reacting to the specific effects
of the hormone, but were rather experiencing "a general response to stress" (Sapolsky, 1988, p. 38). This led Dr. Selye to develop a theory that no matter what the
distress was caused by, the bodys reaction would be the same (Sapolsky, 1988, p. 38). This, he described as a stress reaction, or the ways in which the body
handles a particular crisis. Stress, as defined by Dr. Selye, is "the nonspecific response of the body to any demand upon it" (as cited in Goldstein & Kopin,
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