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<span class="title-prefix">6.6</span> Embrace Some Adversity and Avoid Chronic Stress</h2>
<p class="para editable block" id="sanders_1.0-ch06_s07_p01">There is some indirect evidence that some adversity can make you stronger. Researchers such as Mark Seery, Alison Holman, and Roxanne Cohan Silver found that a certain level of exposure to adverse life events resulted in better mental health and well-being outcomes.<span class="footnote" id="sanders_1.0-fn06_020">Donovan (2010).</span> They found that a history of lifetime adversity, in contrast to low and high levels of adversity, was related to lower global distress, lower levels of functional impairment, less post-traumatic stress, and high levels of satisfaction. Yes, some levels of adversity can make us feel better.</p>
<p class="para editable block" id="sanders_1.0-ch06_s07_p02">Chronic stress, however, can have a negative influence on health, the immune system, cognitive performance, learning, memory, and brain development in general.<span class="footnote" id="sanders_1.0-fn06_021">Lupien, McEwen, Gunnar, and Heim (2009).</span> When the brain detects some sort of threat, it releases hormones that are used to cope with the threat and the body goes into a fight-or-flight response. Extended or chronic exposure to these hormones and the fight-or-flight arousal state can significantly impair health and cognitive functions and, by extension, the creative process. The bottom line is that a little adversity might be ok; but if the adversity leads to chronic stress, then it will damage the individual.</p>
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