psychological: Our psyches are much more likely to be threatened than our lives. In the city, however, both kinds of stressors will often be present. The thing to remember is that whatever the stressor is, our bodies respond to it with an “alarm” response. Although there is both good stress (eustress) and bad stress (distress) which, when accumulated, can result in breakdown, we will focus in this chapter on distress. When we mention stress, we are talking about distress. Stress is physical or psychological