How to make your friends stress – Kelly Mcgonical

Confession. Her confession, she is health psychologist, her mission is to help people to be happy and healtier. Stress make you sick. It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. 30.000 adult in united states for eight years, adn they started by asking people, how much stress have you experienced in the last year? And do you believe that stress is harmful for your health? People who experience a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. That only true people who also believe that stress is harmful for your health. People who experienced stress but didn’t view stress as harmful were no more likely to die. In fact, they had lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress. Now, 18.2000 american died prematurely, not from stress but from believe that stress is bad fo you. Stress is bad for your health. When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body response to stress. We interpret these physical changes as anxiety or sign that we aren’t coping very well with the pressure. In typical stress response changed à your heart rate goes up, your blood vessels constrict. There are difference between a stress induced heart attack at age 50 and living well into your 90. You have to think when you get stress “this is my body helping me to rise to this challenge”. Then your body will believe you and your stress response become healtier. Stress make you social, ocytocin. Ocytocin is a stress hormone. Your stress make you notice when someone else in your life is struggling so you can support each others. Whe your life difficult, your stress response want you to be sorrounded by people who care you. People who spent time caring with others absoluetly no stress.