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Top secrets about stress and health
- ggm 8y ago"secrets" is a bit click-bait-y. Good stuff mind you. I think a lot of us get this, because stress is a fact of life and we now realise shielding kids from all stress is bad, just as much as exposing kids to needless unfixable ongoing stress is bad. Kids need to learn how to deal with stress as a skill, for stress which is age-appropriate (like, how to handle being rejected by your peers, or having to share toys, or deal with "no") The sex differentiation begs questions. What qualities in exposure and response to stress would make the functional difference? It feels like a variant of nature/nurture arguments which have really torrid downsides if you go there, If it turns out women react differently in acute and sustained stress situations I can guarantee somebody from the alt-right is going to use it to say women shouldn't be in the army, in jets, in control of their own reproductive futures...