Synonyms for stressor
ˈstrɛs ər, -ɔrstres·sor

Princeton's WordNet

1. stressornoun

   any agent that causes stress to an organism

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1. List of paraphrases for "stressor":

   aggressor, trigger, stress

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1. Mary Ellen Rose:

   When you’re happy and healthy, you’re more productive, but for people who are high anxiety, monitoring every little thing becomes a stressor.

2. Lima Company:

   It's the first time in 16 years I kind of mentioned this inside, it almost felt like we were deployed again. It was fun. We're all away from our normal homes. It's just the guys. We've got to tell our stories freely and laugh and joke. And it was great. … The biggest thing for me was every stressor I have in my everyday life was gone for the last 72 hours. And I just it was like a reset. It felt great. I don't know. I felt like I was 22 years old. It was fun.

3. Cynthia Ackrill:

   If the worry is intrusive beyond the stressor, that's anxiety, if the sadness is a mood that you can't shift beyond the situation, that's depression.

4. Mischa Peterson:

   They provide support not just for kids but patients of all ages. They normalize the environment, that's usually the first and biggest stressor, just a new environment -- medical equipment everywhere, doctors.

5. Amy Arnsten:

   If you feel like you're in control of the stressor, then there aren't these toxic brain changes, if you feel out of control it leads to chemical changes in the prefrontal cortex that weakens the connections, and over time actually erode those connections away.