He could see neither of them breathing and thought they had actually died together - Duddits of his leukemia, Henry perhaps of a heart attack brought on by exhaustion and the constant unrelieved stress of the last thirty hours or so - and then he saw the minute twitch of the eyelids.

This results in unrelieved stress.

Selye conceptualized the physiology of stress as having two components: a set of responses which he called the "general adaptation syndrome", and the development of a pathological state from ongoing, unrelieved stress.

The San Andreas fault, its stresses unrelieved since the Long Beach disaster of 19331 continued to build up imbalance-an unhealed wound running the full length of the West Coast.

Its intensity complements the pressure of unrelieved stress evident in the first part of the vision, and it resembles the major orientation of personality usually connected with religious conversion.

The lever promoted an illusion of control that forestalled chronic, unrelieved stress.

To lose the present en- gagement would be to die, knowing the frames would in time perish also as the unrelieved stress developed to the breaking point.

Because I'm still reasonably sure that cancer strikes most often where there is unrelieved stress, or psychological discord, I work daily with a professional who helps me to accept my strengths and forgive myself for my limitations.