Is prolonged stress bad for your health?
In his book Stress and Your Body Professor Robert Sapolsky argues that prolonged stress and especially prolonged stress can "can have tremendous negative effects on your mental and physical health". Is this view shared by the scientific community and supported by studies?
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Erno J Hermans has answered Near Certain
An expert from Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Neuroscience, Psychology
There is evidence of negative effects of chronic stress on mental health (e.g., depression, anxiety) as well as physical health (e.g., through negative effects on the immune system, the digestive system, and sleep).
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