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Your body sounding a fire alarm for an email.
means The body's biological and psychological response to perceived demands or threats, useful in bursts, corrosive when chronic.
from From Latin strictus, drawn tight, via Old French estresse, hardship; physicist Robert Hooke borrowed it for material strain, then 1930s endocrinologist Hans Selye stole it for biology.
Engineering rootsOriginally measured force on bridges, not nerves.
Hormone cocktailCortisol and adrenaline run the whole panic.
Useful doseShort-term stress sharpens memory and focus.
Selye's regretHe admitted the word was poorly chosen.