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Fiddlers on the Roof: Balancing & Managing Stress in our Lives
Stephen Lassen, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Kansas Medical Center
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“You might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.”
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Objectives
• Understand the role of perception in managing stress
• Recognize the benefits of stress
• Review ways of building resilience
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What is stress?
• “A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.”
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Assessment of coping
• Instrumental• Use of problem-solving strategies• How to manage a stressful situation
• Emotion-focused• Focus on nurturing one’s emotional health during stressful times
• Active• Seeking out information• Attempts to reduce stress
• Avoidant• Ignoring the stress• Denying the impact of a stressful situation
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Negative effects of stress• Chronic stress more
impairing
• Effects are heightened by other risk factors (low social support, pre-existing health conditions, etc.)
• Stress tends to target the weakest part of our physiology
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“Difficulties lie in our habits of thought, rather than in the nature of things.”
-Andre Tardieu
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The Beuchet Chair Illusion
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…Seen from another perspective
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“A condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.”
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Thoughts – Feelings – Behavior
Thoughts
Feelings Behavior
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Example: Learning a new skill
“I’ll never learn to do this”
Frustrated Give up
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Example: Learning a new skill
“This is harder than I thought. I’ll get it with time”
Calm; confident Keep trying
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Your mind as a stage
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Optimists vs. Pessimists
Optimists
• Less accurate
• More successful
Pessimists
• More accurate
• Less successful
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A parent yells at you and does not want you to take care of their baby any longer
Pessimist
• “What a jerk! I never wanted to take care of that baby, anyway.”
• “I’m such a failure. I can’t even do my job.”
• “I hope no one finds out about this. They’ll think I couldn’t handle it.”
Optimist
• “It’s sad they are so angry. They must really be struggling.”
• “Too bad they will miss out working with me. I have a lot to offer them.”
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You have an argument with a friend and have not heard from him/her in 2 weeks
Pessimist
• “Well, there goes that friendship…”
• “They must think I’m a horrible person.”
• “This is all their fault.”
Optimist
• “This time has sure helped me process what happened.”
• “I could have handled that better. I will call and apologize.”
• “They probably don’t know what to say to me after what happened.”
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Benefits of stress
• Motivates action
• Builds resilience
• Boosts cognitive function
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Using stress in our lives
• Opportunity to grow
• Way to optimize performance
• Normal part of life
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What resilient people do
• See challenges as positive growth opportunities
• Take care of themselves
• Connect with others
• Have a high level of self-awareness
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Self-care pathways
• Sensory
• Pleasure
• Mental/cognitive
• Emotional
• Physical
• Social
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So…
• Don’t worry about the presence of stress in your life
• Appreciate other perspectives and the benefits of stress
• Talk with those who seem to manage stress well – learn from them
• Develop your own list of things that add value to your life
• Take care of yourself
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Selected references
• Kirby, ED et al. (2013). Acute stress enhances adult rat hippocampal neurogenesis and activation of newborn neurons via secreted astrocytic FGF2. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00362
• Sapolsky, RM (2015). Stress and the brain: individual variability and the inverted-U. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1344-1346.