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Re: anxiety is good for you
- To: http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg
- Subject: Re: anxiety is good for you
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 07:18:21 -0700
- Cc: Heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
- Keywords: our-Oakland-cell-phone-number
> From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 10:26:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
> anxiety: a triumph of human evolution.
>
> https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098735719/a-new-book-argues-that-anxiety-is-good-for-you-even-though-it-feels-bad
I have doubts.
It seems that this author is treating stress like grit: something that
nobody likes but everybody needs. I don't think anybody needs either
stress nor resilience.
Also, the distribution of stress is completely ignored. Black people are
generally under more stress, and that's reflected in their worse health
outcomes. Stress is probably part of everybody's lives, but it's not fair
that stress is piled onto some but not others.