Stress
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The number one reason is
stress.
Who would have imagined that so many daily tasks we do or take for granted, such as going to the beach or even picking up something from the floor, would become sources of
stress
and anxiety?
If you can, you're beginning to see the face of the invisible wounds of war, commonly known as post-traumatic
stress
disorder and traumatic brain injury.
While I can't say I have post-traumatic
stress
disorder, I've never been a stranger to it.
And while sitting in class learning about post-traumatic
stress
disorder, or PTSD for short, my mission to help service members who suffered like my grandfather began to take form.
We've had various names for post-traumatic
stress
throughout the history of war: homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock, thousand-yard stare, for instance.
Carlos had post-traumatic
stress
disorder.
And recently, we used to think that stomach ulcers were just caused by stress, until we discovered that H. pylori was the culprit.
We are in the middle of an epidemic of mood disorders like depression and post-traumatic
stress
disorder, or PTSD.
And one of the experiments I was running, we would
stress
the mice, and we used that as a model of depression.
If you
stress
a mouse in this depression model, which is the middle box, they aren't social, they don't explore.
It seemed like these mice were protected against stress, or they were inappropriately happy, however you want to call it.
And then we ran it again in a PTSD model, and we ran it again in a physiological model, where all we did was give
stress
hormones.
It seemed like this one injection of Calypsol was somehow protecting against
stress
for weeks.
So we don't know what causes depression, but we do know that
stress
is the initial trigger in 80 percent of cases, and depression and PTSD are different diseases, but this is something they share in common.
It is traumatic
stress
like active combat or natural disasters or community violence or sexual assault that causes post-traumatic
stress
disorder, and not everyone that is exposed to
stress
develops a mood disorder.
And this ability to experience
stress
and be resilient and bounce back and not develop depression or PTSD is known as
stress
resilience, and it varies between people.
So we're calling our resilience-enhancing drugs "paravaccines," which means vaccine-like, because it seems like they might have the potential to protect against
stress
and prevent mice from developing depression and post-traumatic
stress
disorder.
Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles, and relieve some stress, too.
Cats may purr for any number of reasons, such as happiness, stress, and hunger.
We can reduce the
stress
and the polarization in our urban habitats.
There's a growing body of research examining the relationship between chronic
stress
and illness.
Things like heart disease and even cancer are being shown to have a relationship to
stress.
And that's because, over time, too much activation from
stress
can interfere with my body's processes that keep me healthy.
What might this kind of stress, particularly over the length of my pregnancy, what kind of impact might that have on the health of my developing fetus?
You probably won't be surprised when I tell you that this kind of
stress
during pregnancy is not good.
It can even cause the body to initiate labor too early, because in a basic sense, the
stress
communicates that the womb is no longer a safe place for the child.
Now of course stress, particularly in our modern lifestyle, is a somewhat universal experience, right?
But it turns out that the kind of
stress
we experience and whether we're able to stay in a relaxed state long enough to keep our bodies working properly depends a lot on who we are.
And so we come back to the path from discrimination to
stress
to poor health, and it begins to paint a picture that many people of color know to be true: racism is actually making us sick.
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