As I said before, however, I think we have to be very careful about allowing doctors to use “overreact to stress” as a description of our basic trait. Who decides what is “over”? (My use of the term overarousal is relative to your own optimal level of arousal.) But what about the positive aspect of our trait and the negative aspect of a culture in which high stress levels are normal? We were not really born with a tendency to “overreact to stress.” We were born sensitive.
