Stress is a normal part of life. In small quantities, stress is good - it can motivate you and help you be more productive. However, too much stress, or a strong response to stress, is harmful. It can set you up for general poor health as well as specific physical or psychological illnesses like infection, heart disease, and depression. Persistent and unrelenting stress often leads to anxiety and unhealthy behaviors like overeating and abuse of alcohol or drugs.

But what is stress exactly? Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another.

Take the time to have your annual screening mammogram!

An inaugural MAMMOthon program, consisting of digital mammogram screenings, free chair massages and giveaways, including watches, will take place from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 27 at Franciscan St. Anthony Health- Michigan City, 301 W. Homer St.

The program will take place in the hospital’s Breast Imaging Center, on the first floor.

The Purdue North Central Out of the Darkness Campus Walk is a fundraising walk supporting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There are more than 30 Out of the Darkness Campus Walks taking place throughout the U.S. this spring. Funds will support vital research, education, advocacy, suicide prevention initiatives and programs to support those impacted by suicide.

It is estimated that each year, nearly 1 million Americans make a suicide attempt, more than 34,000 die by suicide, and more than 20 million suffer from depression. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens and young adults and the second leading cause of death for college students.

Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City is offering free, take-home colorectal screening kits during March, which is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the nation. If everyone aged 50 or older had regular screenings, as many as 60 percent of deaths could be prevented, hospital officials say.