Can stress be helpful?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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Stress Isn't a Threat to Survival
Most of our stress isn't from giant preditors, right? It's more like tests, or homerc or argument with your friend. When these things stress us out, we get a lot of those same physical feelings that our ancestors got when they were being threatened by that lion. We go into survival mode. But a lot of our stressers to day aren't the kind of things we can fight or run away from. And freezing usually won't help either, don't i know it. I've been putting off doing research for this episode because i was so stressed out about it. How come? Well, sandin gave me an old book called 'touch not leave alone' He
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