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Sapolsky's Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers: a charming tour of stress science

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Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, by Robert M Sapolsky, 302
chapter
Stress and Depression
publisher
Times Books
year
2004
page
302 (3rd ed edition)

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It takes surprisingly little in terms of uncontrollable unpleasantness to make humans give up and become helpless in a generalized way.

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