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 TED 如何讓壓力成為你的朋友 - 英文(1)

演講者： 凱莉·麥高尼格 (健康心理學家)

I have a confession to make.

But first, I want you.

To make a little confession to me.

In past year, I want you to just raise your hand.

If you have experienced relatively little stress.

Anyone?

How about a moderate amount of stress?

Who has experiences a lot of stress?

Yeah. Me too.

But that is not my confession.

My confession is this: I am a health psychologist.

And my mission is to help people be happier and healthier.

But I fear that something I have been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good and it has to do with stress.

For years I have been telling people, stress makes you sick.

It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease.

Basically, I have turned stress into the enemy.

But I have changed my mind about stress, and today, I want to change yours.

Let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach to stress.

This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years, and they started by asking people.

Hoe much stress have you experienced in the last year?

They also asked, “Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?”

And then they used public death records to find out who died.

(Laughter) 

Okay. Some bad news first.

People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying.

But that was only true for the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health.

(Laughter) 

People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die.

In fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.

Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you.