Why zebras don't get ulcers
Description
For a terrified zebra sprinting away from a lion, a stressor is an immediate physical emergency and the stress-response - changes that occur in the body at such times - is brilliantly adaptive for dealing with that sort of crisis. But to a surprising extent, we humans turn on the same sort of response when feeling stressed out about mortgages or relationships or our own mortality, and at those times the stress-response is anything but helpful.When people burdened with stress start to feel bad physically, it is not just in their minds. Emotional crises bring on specific physical changes in t...
ISBN(s)
0716723913, 9780716723912
