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Threat vs challenge responses

Why do our bodies sometimes react in certain situations with a threat response (fight or flight) and in others with a challenge response?

It seems to boil down to our inner belief of being able to handle the situation or not. If we think we can deal with it - challenge response. Otherwise - threat response.

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Positive stress can be referred to as eustress, while negative stress can be referred to as distress. However, things are not quite as black-and-white as they seem.

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Meaningful stress is challenging stress

Meaningful stress is challenging stress

A 40-year-long study shows that people who experienced a moderate (4-7) amount of traumatic events rated their life satisfaction the highest.

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In 2015, Nasa sent Scott Kelly to space and left Mark Kelly, his twin brother, on Earth. The experiment helped them determine that, due to the lack of stress on the skeleton, a person loses ~1% of their bone density after one month in space. For comparison, an average person aged...

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