For the past six months, Dahlia's job has been extremely stressful, but she doesn't feel that she can quit because she needs the money for tuition. Dahlia has been having chronic headaches and is behind in all of her classes. According to Hans Selye, Dahlia is in the __________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

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Dahlia's chronic headaches and being behind in all her classes indicate that she is experiencing exhaustion, which is the final stage in Selye's general adaptation syndrome. The other stages are alarm, where the body prepares for a stressor, and resistance, where the body tries to adapt to the stressor by coping mechanisms. Collapse is not one of the stages in the general adaptation syndrome.

For the Past Six Months, Dahlia's Job Has Been Extremely