Stress may not be a bad thing.

Another great podcast of Esther Sternberg on Stress and the Balance Within. 

We all look at stress as a negative feeling; however Esther Sternberg look at stress as a necessity. For example, "when an animal finds itself a new environment. If it doesn’t have a stress response, if it wouldn’t suddenly stand up and look around, if it just went to sleep, it will get eaten. So, you need your stress response to survive, but the problem happens when that stress response goes on for too long. When its active, when it shouldn’t be active, when you are pumping out hormone chemical at max, that’s when you get sick. That’s when you get these hormone and chemical effects on the immune system."

Stress is not a bad thing, only when you can't control stress is a bad thing.