In this essay I would like you to do some research on stress and how stress affects the body, mind, and brain especially prolonged stress. Stress can have devestating effects on all three areas and as I have said in class prolonged stress levels off and we develop copeing mechanisms to deal with it, however at some point the stress results in debilitaing effects not only physical but psychologically and a breakdown occurs. After your research which can be from where ever you chose and does not have to be cited in the writting, write a two to three page essay on how prolonged stress is related to racism of minority goups. Anecdotal examples as well as personal examples should be used. You might write about the stress of being followed in a department store, or being pulled over by the police, please connect the psychology to the circumstance. Please connect the prolonged stress to psychological problems as well as physical problems.