Learn what short-term and long-term stress does to your body and how to cope with it through this interactive feature!

If you can easily resolve any nagging short-term stresses, do it before you quit.

These kinds of short-term stress are normal.

A short-term sleep problem is often linked to short-term stress.

Psychologists say that in the long run, the practice may buttress children's self-esteem, but it can also cause short-term stress, embarrassment and psychological and practical difficulties.

So far, laboratory researchers have looked only at the effects of short-term stress, which appear not to be permanent.

Not a word was said about the short-term stresses of ordinary living.

The problem, they said, was that past research looked at short-term stress, with the expectation that a flare-up would be seen within a month or two.

How short-term stress can save one's life, and how long-term stress can be a slow and potential killer.

Your body recovers quickly from short-term stress - in a few minutes the blood pressure comes back down.