382: Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers?

1. Stress and Disease
1. Chronic stress doesn't actually give you a sickness.  It specifically increases your risk of disease or lowers your defenses against disease allowing for an already present disease to take over.
2.  This distinction helps to...
1. Explain individual differences
2. Makes it easier to design ways to intervene
3. It helps explain the slippery nature of medical diagnosis
1. For example, doctors will say you feel sick because of "disease X" instead of addressing the underlying cause of the disease which is often stress.