PSYCH 151: Stress and Psychiatry

Clinical Deep Dives · Oct 13, 2026 · 48m · transcript

and resilience.

Medlock Holmes enters The Stress Laboratory, where an enormous brass apparatus is being subjected to pressure.

At first, the mystery appears straightforward: apply enough force and eventually something breaks.

But Holmes quickly discovers that human beings do not behave like identical pieces of metal.

Two people can encounter the same loss, illness, humiliation or threat and follow completely different trajectories. One develops depression. Another becomes anxious. A third experiences transient distress and recovers. Another appears initially unaffected but becomes unwell…