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shawnsmith
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 Posted - 01/22/2010 : 13:17:33
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The cost of occupational stress to business and industry in monetary terms has become increasingly well documented. Annually, U.S. industry loses approximately 550 million working days due to absenteeism. It is estimated that 54% of these absences are in some way stress-related (Elkin and Rosch 1990). Moreover, researchers at the American Institute for Stress, a nonprofit organization based in New York, suggest that 75% to 90% of patients' visits to physicians are for ailments that have some kind of link with stress and that controlling stress could be instrumental in controlling rising health care costs (Nowroozi 1994, 82). Stress can influence the immune system, weakening the body's defenses against many viral disorders.......
Finally, the physical manifestations of stress are often ignored by the individual experiencing long periods of stress until they reach the point of critical consequences. The following are common signs of the physical impact of stress:
* Changes in sleeping patterns, such as insomnia.
* Headaches.
* Backaches.
* Gastrointestinal disturbances.
* Fatigue.
* High blood pressure.
* Changes in eating patterns.
* Shortness of breath.
* Susceptibility to illness.
MORE: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa2002/chapter6_2.html |
Edited by - shawnsmith on 01/22/2010 13:20:10 |
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Gibbon
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 02:24:41
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Originally posted by shawnsmith
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The cost of occupational stress to business and industry in monetary terms has become increasingly well documented. Annually, U.S. industry loses approximately 550 million working days due to absenteeism. It is estimated that 54% of these absences are in some way stress-related (Elkin and Rosch 1990). Moreover, researchers at the American Institute for Stress, a nonprofit organization based in New York, suggest that 75% to 90% of patients' visits to physicians are for ailments that have some kind of link with stress and that controlling stress could be instrumental in controlling rising health care costs (Nowroozi 1994, 82). Stress can influence the immune system, weakening the body's defenses against many viral disorders.......
Finally, the physical manifestations of stress are often ignored by the individual experiencing long periods of stress until they reach the point of critical consequences. The following are common signs of the physical impact of stress:
* Changes in sleeping patterns, such as insomnia.
* Headaches.
* Backaches.
* Gastrointestinal disturbances.
* Fatigue.
* High blood pressure.
* Changes in eating patterns.
* Shortness of breath.
* Susceptibility to illness.
MORE: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa2002/chapter6_2.html
interesting. I wonder if it's more apt to update sarno's original freudian mecahnism of repressed emotions with a stress based theory in light of the research into the affects of stress on the body done over the past few years. I know that Dr Clarke (http://www.stressillness.com/) is one doc who things so..... |
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heart a tact
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 14:29:34
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i don't see this 'stress' and sarno's 'repressed emotions' as being all that different... after all, the problem with stress is largely that we are expected to repress our aversion to it, in order to continue working, normal life, etc.
the unconscious 'child' in our minds that sarno writes about must be INFURIATED every time we work through significant stress... but we are expected to ignore that fury, go to work, and be good employees. It sure makes ME mad, I know that much. |
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heart a tact
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 14:34:49
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Originally posted by Gibbon
[quote]Originally posted by shawnsmith
interesting. I wonder if it's more apt to update sarno's original freudian mecahnism of repressed emotions with a stress based theory in light of the research into the affects of stress on the body done over the past few years. I know that Dr Clarke (http://www.stressillness.com/) is one doc who things so.....
now that i've re-read, i see what you mean, however. freudian thinking is kind of a faux-pas these days, isn't it? it's a shame. there are valid criticisms of it that even I know of (and I'm no psych scholar), but sarno's take on them (so far) strikes me as reasonable enough. |
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Gibbon
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 15:42:46
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Originally posted by heart a tact
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Originally posted by Gibbon
[quote]Originally posted by shawnsmith
interesting. I wonder if it's more apt to update sarno's original freudian mecahnism of repressed emotions with a stress based theory in light of the research into the affects of stress on the body done over the past few years. I know that Dr Clarke (http://www.stressillness.com/) is one doc who things so.....
now that i've re-read, i see what you mean, however. freudian thinking is kind of a faux-pas these days, isn't it? it's a shame. there are valid criticisms of it that even I know of (and I'm no psych scholar), but sarno's take on them (so far) strikes me as reasonable enough.
true - i think that some form of repressed emotions do have an impact on health etc. - and there is evidence re the affect of childhood trauma on later life....but talking about things in a freudian way is kinda a big red light for people. I thing that people are much more receptive to the idea of "stress" - even if this is in some part a relabeling of sarno's repressed emotions. #
I took a discussion of what i'd written on my site to a sceptics forum and as a result of the comments have altered some of the intro text to replace freudian mechanism with stress ones, i think it makes the theory less scary for people. |
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Interesting document related to stress
