The Stress of Life

Hans Selye

How does the body meet stress, how does failing to adapt cause disease, and how can we live to ease it?

At a glance

You will see how heart disease, digestive disorders and mental illness may result largely from failures of the body's own defenses against stress
You will learn that the cure for general overload is to relax quickly and completely, not to add more stress
You will stop treating all stress as harmful, since the author separates a healthy kind from the damaging kind