Closing the Gap
A Newsletter of the Office of Minority Health Mental Health and Minorities September 1997 Coping With Racial Stress In comparison with Whites, African Americans use more coping strategies for dealing with racial stress and engage in more planful problem-solving.
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Modern Stress: An Ongoing Attack - Discovery Health Channel [http://health.discovery.com/centers/stress/articles/strainofstress/modern_print.html]                                                                                      The problem with modern stress is, it never seems to stop. "What happens within the body and in the brain where there's repeated exposure to uncontrollable stress is that the systems themselves begin to change. They have to adapt, so they don't return to the normal state," according to Dr. Steve Schleifer, chairman of psychiatry at the New Jersey School of Medicine. "This is when the brain certainly begins to get into trouble. This is when it's believed we're more likely to develop abnormalities in emotional and brain function that are associated with problems like chronic depression."