"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Knowing the state of one's well-being, erasing bad habits, having a new self-awareness, renewing oneself with targeted paths, and choosing the best strategy for well-being.";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[1]/text:span[0]" = "It's good to feel good!";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[2]/text:span[0]" = "The Stress Check is a non-invasive assessment of the subject's perception of physical and mental well-being, which allows monitoring the level of stress to which the subject is subjected.<g id=\"0\"/> The term stress was first employed in 1936 by Hans Selye. He defined it as a \"nonspecific response of the organism to any demand made upon it.\" According to Selye's model, the stressogenic process consists of three distinct phases:";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[0]/text:list-item[0]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Alarm phase: the subject reports the excess of duties and sets in motion resources to fulfill them;";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[0]/text:list-item[1]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Endurance phase: the subject stabilizes his condition and adapts to the new tenor of demands;";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[0]/text:list-item[2]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Exhaustion phase: in this phase there is a drop in defenses and the subsequent onset of physical, physiological and emotional symptoms.";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[3]/text:span[0]" = "In Italy, it is estimated that 9 out of 10 people suffer from it, and WHO has defined it as the evil of the century.<g id=\"1\"/>Stress is a psychophysical response to even very different tasks of an emotional, cognitive and/or social nature that the individual perceives as excessive. This means that stressors differ from person to person and may also be affected by the time they occur: the same event may be experienced in a more or less stressful manner depending on the stage of life in which it occurs.<g id=\"2\"/>Two types of stress can be distinguished: ";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[3]/text:span[1]" = "eustress";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[3]/text:span[2]" = ", when stressors are beneficial to the body and stimulate the subject's vitality; if the stressor is very intense and persists for a long time it leads to a state of psychophysical malaise, which can become chronic. In this case we speak of ";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[3]/text:span[3]" = "distress";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[3]/text:span[4]" = ".<g id=\"3\"/>In a modern society such as ours, stressors, i.e., stimuli that can lead to stress are many, and among the most frequent causes are:";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[1]/text:list-item[0]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Pleasant and unpleasant life events (marriage, birth of a child, start of a new job, loss of a loved one);";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[1]/text:list-item[1]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Physical causes (intense cold or heat, substance abuse such as alcohol and smoking),";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[1]/text:list-item[2]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Environmental factors such as environments that are too noisy;";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:list[1]/text:list-item[3]/text:p[0]/text:span[0]" = "Pathological conditions of the individual that alter his or her perception of physical well-being.";
"odf///office:document-content[0]/office:body[0]/office:text[0]/text:p[4]/text:span[0]" = "Stress manifests itself in multiple ways, but mainly traceable to four categories of symptoms: physical, behavioral, emotional and cognitive symptoms. <g id=\"4\"/>Between the most common physical symptoms we find headaches, stomach pain, indigestion, loss of appetite, widespread muscle aches, tachycardia, and excessive sweating or sweating of the hands.<g id=\"5\"/> It can manifest as nervous hunger, bruxism, difficulty completing tasks, and aggressive behavior toward others. Another aspect that should not be underestimated is emotional changes: nervousness, anger, anxiety, sadness, frequent crying, feeling of inadequacy and helplessness.<g id=\"6\"/>At the cognitive level, stress can manifest as attention disturbances, loss of clarity, inability to make decisions, tendency to forget things or memory loss. ";