A growing body of evidence suggest that, in the same way as chronic stress in other areas of life can affect one’s physical health, the cumulative effects of the stress of dealing with racism can provoke depression, anxiety, insomnia, heart disease, skin rashes, and gastrointestinal problems. Multiple studies of people of different races have found that those who reported experiencing more discrimination were generally in poorer health, a “cascade” response to stress that wore away at the body’s physiological systems.