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From:  Robert C Bowman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:  Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:  Re: [SDOH] Stress
Date:  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:13:01 -0600
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>Life is not stressful if you take away parent expectations, your own
>expectations, your children's expectations, and those of society.
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>Life is not stressful if you hope to accomplish very little.
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>Life is not stressful if you are blessed with fortunate birth.
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>Life is not stressful if you are basically unaware regarding how others
>live.
>
>Have I eliminated everyone on this list serve so far?
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>I did a weight control group in my solo rural practice. We met twice a
>week. We focused on nutrition, but ended up talking about stressful
>situations.
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>Spending more, eating more, and doing less constructive things (gambling,
>cell phones, cable movies or other TV, video games, other escapes), all
>tend to make stress even worse over time. Not doing much with the kids at
>younger ages comes back to haunt you in more stress age 6 - whenever they
>leave.
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>Chronic stress shapes the mind, brain, receptors, and body in bad ways.
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>How stress impacts you can be a choice as in the Stockdale paradox:
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>Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the
>difficulties
>Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might
>be
>Do both simultaneously
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>From Admiral Stockdale, long term prisoner in Viet Nam as reported in Good
>to Great by Jim Collins
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>I suspect human versatility, aided by self attitude and support of others,
>is a primary reason why some measures of poverty do not seem to reflect a
>consistent linear relationship with other poor outcomes.
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>Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
>UNMC Department of Family Medicine Director of Rural Health Education and
>Research
>983075 Nebraska Medical Center
>Omaha, NE 68198-3075
>(402) 559-8873 or fax at -8118
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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