Both negative and positive stressors can lead to stress. Some common categories and examples of stressors include:-
- Sensory: pain, bright light
- Life events: birth and deaths, marriage, and divorce
- Responsibilities: lack of money, unemployment
- Illness: depression, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Work/study: exams, project deadlines, and group projects
- Personal relationships: conflict, deception, Break up
- Lifestyle: heavy drinking, insufficient sleep
- Environmental: Lack of control over environmental circumstances, such as food, housing, health, freedom, or mobility
- Social: Struggles with conspecific individuals and social defeat can be potent sources of chronic stresses
- Adverse experiences during development (e.g. prenatal exposure to maternal stress,poor attachment histories,sexual abuse) are thought to contribute to deficits in the maturity of an individual's stress response systems.
