A Woman's Passion Is Neurochemically Enhanced By Stress

[Donatien]

types of stress....
The type TopRock and Curtis are referring to is very short-term stress known as ‘eustress’ which strengthens a person for immediate and short-term activity.
The type Jeanangel is referring, is known as 'distress'. It's caused by prolonged adjustment, or struggle, to adapt to something unpleasant. Hers is a good example of this.
Now, I could be wrong here, but I think the type of stress that may cause female athletes to begin skipping their periods, and dropping body fat might be 'hyperstress' or overload, which occurs when we try to overload ourselves and stretch our limits to excess.

ENABLING STRESS
I seem to have arrived late in on this thread, as is often the case with me. I agree with alex's division of types of stress into three, but have used the term enabling stress , instead of eustress; and have explained it on one occasion, by giving a demonstration of what happened when I removed all stress from my muscles; I dropped straight to the floor, much to the surprise of the audience! another example is in psychiatric patients given overenthusiastic lobotomies, all distress, also all stress is removed, and with it all drive so that a person who retains all their intellectual abilities has so little drive that they are doubly incontinent and have to be handfed. I.E nil stress= nil performance.
DISABLING STRESS (distress)
Have you noticed that when you are so worried and stressed that you cannot think straight, on reflection, you realise that a major contributor, even the main cause was not big global issues like relationships , illness, and death etc, but a noise in the high fi , a mislaid shoe ,or paper back, something so minor , that you don't have time to allocate to it, and yet if you are honest it got to you quite disproportionally; it trod on your emotional corns. Frequently distress can be resolved by emptying the recycle bin of ones mind of these minor problems that get to YOU. (Just small amounts of these make big differences to ones stress levels yet are easily resolved once acknowledged.)
HYPERSTRESS
Too much for too long, wears you down.
When managing all this in oneself it is more beneficial to think of verbs not nouns, I.E. instead of 'why have i so much stress', ask yourself ' what am i doing (or not doing) to get myself distressed.
(If a suitable thread appears I could describe some simple home measures for addressing this subject further.)
I think that the evidence suggests that a weight loss of 30% below average for ht, in women is sufficient for them to cease menstruating and that this is independent from stress levels.