We think there is plasticity in that circuitry. If you experience adversity--something pretty potent--that you overcome on your own during your youth, you develop a different way of dealing with adversity later on. It's important that the adversity be pretty potent. Because these brain areas really have to wire together in some fashion, and that doesn't happen with just minor inconveniences.
Quotes are taken from the research journals of Kyle Vanderburg.