For all that my friends and I complain about our stress, maybe we don’t do enough to understand it. Some kinds of in-the-moment stress are motivating—as a journalist, I love a hard deadline—but chronic stress can steal our joy, health, sleep, and even make our hair fall out. In her report below, contributor Nykia Spradley tells how to know if you have chronic stress, and how to start tackling it for real.
—Sara Austin, executive editor
