Depending on how you define stress... Yeah, could be.

I read something on stress, once... It was sort of defined as person-environment mis-match. Something about how... When the environment is too... Different... Exceeds the individuals ability to cope with it.

Then there was a discussion on how asking something to function outside it's designed range... Whether that would break the system... Throw it into dysfunction. Or whether it was solely a matter of bring the input back to more reasonable values.

Sorry this is so very abstract.

Some people are more adaptable than others. More flexible. Before breaking. Other people... Never get tested. With the limited range of inputs they are lucky enough to experience.

Degrees of difference...