How Do You React to Stress?

When you encounter something you don't understand, the first manner in which you conceive of it is embodied, emotional, physical. And that means you sweat and you panic and you feel depressed and you feel hurt and you feel ashamed - all that's basically non cognitive. So we know, for example, that if you're in a state where you're chronically exposed to threat or punishment, say, you produce a lot of cordosol (a stress hormon) That puts you in this terrible, panicky, cortosal ridden, stressful state that's really hard on you physically. If something unknown happens to you and blows your frame of reference right, knocks you for a loop, sends you