The term 'stress' is often conflated with 'stressor' and 'stress response'.

“People in general conflate the stressor with a stress response when they say stress they're like I'm really stressed right now well what really what you mean is that there were stressors you appraised them as more than you can handle and then you had a threat type stress response which means that your body is preparing for damage and defeat and that is like an inheritance of how the you know sympathetic nervous system evolved which was to Keep Us Alive from threats mainly physical threats”