To: kozanne; Quix
The "terror" of a persistent non-specific "unknown" threat is probably more physiologically damaging to a population than an actual incident.
When the fight or flight mechanism is continuously activated in an organism that is unable to manage the physiological response, the predictable result is exhaustion.... weakness, vulnerability - and death.
Gotta be fit to FReep.
It's a GAS:
(General Adaptation Syndrome)
69 posted on
09/29/2010 9:07:05 AM PDT by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT:
The “terror” of a persistent non-specific “unknown” threat is probably more physiologically damaging to a population than an actual incident.
When the fight or flight mechanism is continuously activated in an organism that is unable to manage the physiological response, the predictable result is exhaustion.... weakness, vulnerability - and death.
Gotta be fit to FReep.
It’s a GAS:
(General Adaptation Syndrome)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_%28biology%29
71 posted on
09/29/2010 9:10:57 AM PDT by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: LomanBill
Good point Willy. Over the last couple of years I reduced my freeping, but it would be hard at this point to turn me back into a sheep.
101 posted on
09/29/2010 5:40:08 PM PDT by
TBall
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