Stress: Good and Bad

Main	stress
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	put under physical or mental pressure
Synonyms:	afflict, burden, crunch, distend, force, fret, hassle, overdo, overextend, pull, put in traction, put on trial, spring, strain, stretch, tense, tense up, traumatize, worry

The most appropriate synonyms for stress in this entry are burden, overextend, and strain. At the end of a marking period I experience, along with many others, most of these feelings. I have taken three physics tests withing a week and a half. This makes me feel physically and mentally overextended. There is good and bad stress. It all depends on how you handle the stress you experience. The stress can be good if you work through what you need to do and persevere. Bad stress occurs when you overwork yourself because you think nothing is good enough. This also happens when you procrastinate and have to make of for it at three in the morning. My goal this next marking period is not to diminish all the stress in my life, but just the bad stress. I want to work hard for what I get, but not strain myself to the limit. This next marking period I do not want to stress myself out, but let the healthy and natural stress help me get my work done.