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Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

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181 points andrewstetsenko | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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tmshapland ◴[20 Oct 24 17:47 UTC] No.41897132[source]▶
So what do you do about stress? How do you recognize it's happening? I found this part informative:

"Stress reactivity occurs specifically in situations that diminish one’s control and where the prospect of being negatively evaluated, rejected, and/or shamed are contextually manipulated (Dickerson et al., 2004)."

I find I get the most stressed when I'm excited about a new challenge -- a new work project, seeing a path to achieving a goal I've been working towards for a while. When I start to feel too excited (or in the framework of this paper, I start to expend too much energy and my heart rate is elevated thinking about all I want to do to overcome the challenge), I can generally reign in the stress by reminding myself that failure happens, my peers will understand it, and I don't have complete control over anything anyway.

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1. vmasto ◴[20 Oct 24 21:24 UTC] No.41898599[source]▶
Stress most times doesn't reveal itself like that. What you're describing is short term excitement and perhaps anxiety.

Stress is a silent killer. It's basically being mostly unhappy, feeling unfulfilled and trapped. It's a spectrum that can range from simply being unhappy to being deeply depressed.