Yep, short term stress won’t do anything to you, it will even let you have a lot of dopamine during and after the stressful situation.
Stress will kill you when it becomes chronic, that is when the stressful situation never ends.
If I understood correctly it’s because instead of getting some cortisol then flush it from your organism once everything is okay, you will add up cortisol over time and this hormone is inflammatory. So chronic stress is physically harming you.
I think I conflated that in my example, with an additional factor: degree of stress. Such as I'd guess differs between when you can rise to the challenge successfully, and when all your efforts are thwarted.
Stress will kill you when it becomes chronic, that is when the stressful situation never ends.
If I understood correctly it’s because instead of getting some cortisol then flush it from your organism once everything is okay, you will add up cortisol over time and this hormone is inflammatory. So chronic stress is physically harming you.