Unlike our primitive ancestors, we live in a very safer
world now. We have proper shelters, food, and other basic necessities which the
ancestors were deprived of. Modern day men are completely out of threats from
the wild animals. Modern day needs/problems such as financial situation,
children education, office work, house renovation, road traffics, income tax
etc now turn out to be the virtual tigers. Any of the above listed necessities
might kick in the stress response because of the two causes of the stress that
we mentioned above.
The stress circuit which worked in the primitive times and
the one that works now in the modern days are one and the same. Only the big
difference between these two scenarios is that the time duration of the
threats. In the wilds, threat stays as along as the tiger is in your vicinity.
Threat vanishes the moment tiger disappears from the scene. In this case, the
thread amplification is larger but the duration is lesser. But, now this
virtual tigers are not as big as the threats of the wild but constant nagging
troublesome issues always sitting in the back of your mind. So, the threat
amplification is smaller but the duration of the thread is longer now.
When the virtual tigers (threats) are repeated very often
then there will be multiple stress responses leading to chronic stress. Chronic
stress is the cause for multiple lifestyle diseases such as migraine,
hypertension, anxiety disorder etc.
The stress circuit which worked in the primitive times and
the one that works now in the modern days are one and the same.
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