Like said, the word is control. If you can control the situation you're not the victim of bad stress. No one who has no control ever has good stress. People who has no control at the workplace for example, can never dial down their stress. Their manager can. Even if he looks busy, he can go with the ups and downs. What HE doesn't have is the social stress caused by being the common worker. Social stress is probably the worst. It becomes chronic, and when stress is chronic the body suffers, you get heart disease and neuron death.

The problem? The hierarchy that lets us use people as if they weren't alive and human.