it kind of kicks your immune system into hyperdrive
hyperdrive
your immune system is boosted
but eventually if the stress remains
stays around too
long the cortisol levels are high for a
long time
your immune system is going to be suppressed
suppressed
and so we talked about well why is this
and one of the theories
is that your body is trying to stop
itself from developing autoimmune
disorders autoimmune diseases things
like arthritis
in those diseases your body your immune
system is too active it's attacking
so you know i think about my dad's had
arthritis for years
um his immune system is too active it's
attacking his
his own body and so he takes medication that
that
suppresses the immune system well what
happens then he is vulnerable to all
types of illnesses
and years ago he ended up catching tuberculosis
tuberculosis
which is really really severe because
his immune system
was suppressed so your body thinks when
the immune system is activated activated
activated activated
that what's going on is an auto
autoimmune disorder is developing so it
shuts itself down
it thinks no that's not good so it shuts
itself down it can't be active for too long
so we've talked about how adrenaline and
cortisol are being released
your heart rate is going to increase um
we're going to release
fat and glucose to give the muscles a
readily available source of energy
we are designed to take physical fight
or flight
if we don't take physical fight or
flight that fat
is not going to be burned and it adheres
to the walls of blood vessels
these fatty deposits mean blood supply
blockage and heart attacks
so whenever you are stressed you should
engage in some kind of physical activity
it is good
to go running or go kickboxing or go i
don't know
punch a pillow engage in some kind of
physical fight or flight if you can
it's good exercise is good for dealing
with stress
it also releases natural endorphins
so i keep seeing one of the last scenes
the last thing
personality matters we've talked about
how stress is all about interpretation
so of course your personality is going
to matter
stress is all about how you approach life
life
and that's why i am challenging you all
to think are you approaching life in the
best way possible
for your long-term health your long-term
happiness your long-term life satisfaction
satisfaction
are you approaching life the best way possible
possible
and if not then try to change it try to
work on it we all have room for growth
but because this is again essential to
who we are it's very very hard to change
so um
the effects of stress on heart disease
may be amplified if a person tends to
have a type a
behavior pattern this hard-working competitive
competitive
um ambitious impatient
kind of hostile personality style or
behavioral pattern versus
instead the type b which is laid back
and relaxed attitude
so with this type a one of the main
things is if you have cynical hostility
that is related to an increased risk of
think about it there's it's it's a much
more combative way of approaching the world
world
and more negative way of approaching the
world and it can increase
interpersonal conflicts and this causes
heightened autonomic
activation and so that's going to end up
leading to this increased risk of heart disease
disease
in a lot of what we've been studying
before and where we're ending up here is
again what is the antidote to stress
a positive affect how we think how we
approach life
if you have a sense of pleasure in their
environment including feelings of
happiness joy enthusiasm and contentment
all of this is good and it's associated
with longer life expectancy
remember we also said that helping
others is associated with longer life expectancy
expectancy
not focusing so much on yourself
people who are high in positive affect
also experience fear
colds fear strokes fear auto accidents
so essentially don't worry be happy [Music]
there's one thing that i didn't talk
about that's ptsd
ptsd post-traumatic stress disorder is a trauma
trauma
and stressor related disorder that
develops from directly or indirectly
experiencing actual or threatened death
serious injury or violence
we know a ptsd is a lot of people have ptsd
ptsd
um i'm hearing about more and more and
more diagnoses and it's important to mention
mention
that something doesn't have to happen
directly to you it can be that you
witness something traumatic
you see something traumatic um
it also can just be a threat of something
something
it says you deve you can develop this
because you directly or indirectly
experienced actual
treatment normally consists of somehow
coming to terms
with these terrifying memories and a lot
of it is about reliving the traumatic
experience the trauma in a safe setting
so of course a rapport needs to be
established between the therapists and
the client but once that connection
and that trust has been established the person
person
is typically guided to go back to when
this happened
to experience it in full and full intensity
intensity
go back in time to when it happened and
relive it
with somebody who is trusted and capable
of guiding you through it guiding you
through processing and experiencing the
related emotions
in a safe place where you are going to
be okay
and you can work through it
a lot of what seems to be happening is
these emotions
you weren't able to process through them
because maybe it simply wasn't allowed
or it was too much to deal with
and so they just constantly remain there
right below the surface
and anything that happens this little
bit amount of stress a trigger of some sort
sort
um falling to sleep so losing that kind
of sense of control
it can cause you to just go back to fall into
into
the experience or to allow the
experience to bubble up to the surface
and all the emotions associated with it
so the emotions need to be somehow
processed and dealt with
in a safe place and typically symptoms
can continue for months or years
after the event has happened some turn
to alcohol and other types of drugs to cope
cope
with the problem and this can compound
the problem
people that have ptsd
experience extreme stress and fear even when
when
they're no longer in danger so something
someone told me once i had a student
that was struggling with ptsd
and he said that he was working with his
therapist um using visualization techniques
techniques
he was like a a brittle branch
and even the smallest stressor
the smallest thing happening smallest
trigger would break him
so that a little bit of pressure would
break him so he's working on replacing that
that
kind of way of thinking and that visualization
visualization
with he's like and his mind is like this really
really
bendy branch or root root that
he had a special type of of tree that
has this kind of root
that that never breaks no matter how
extreme the pressure and the stressor is
it's never going to snap he can handle
it so he's using these visualization
techniques to kind of change his current mindset
mindset
and his way of approaching things the
way he thinks about things um
to this kind of healthier kind of way of
being able to handle things
okay so that's our lecture on the
horribleness of stress ptsd that's
what else um memory what's the word
forget the word memory damage
what else oh surpris suppressing the
immune system just
put completely bad gastric ulcers bad
um cardiovascular disorders heart
attacks stroke bad
some blood supply blockage bad so
we have learned all the we have
successfully villainized
stress but remember what is the cure
positive affect and thinking about
stress is powerful so
chronic stress is bad but you can stop
yourself from ever being in that state
remember stress is empowering i know
this is confusing
but isn't it amazing isn't it amazing that
that
how much our mind matters when it comes
to all this stuff
it's all about the mind i think it's a
really really cool thing
okay so that's it
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