How do you respond to stressful situations?

Ridding yourself of toxic stress must begin with changing your behaviour and tackling the cause, Dr Harry Barry tells Margaret Jennings.  

How do you respond to stressful situations? Do you become anxious or depressed, or do you rise to the occasion with frustration or anger?

When it comes to acute stressful events — short bouts that we need to address as part of life — most of us fall into one or the other camp, in how we manage our world, according to Dr Harry Barry, the Drogheda-based GP who specialises in this area and is the author of five books on the subject.