# How to make stress your friend

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2013
- Speaker: Kelly McGonigal
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

## Lectures

1. [How to make stress your friend](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend/ff8cd7ff50b8), 15 min (TED's player)