ALERT for partners, carers, families, workers in care industries, STRESS is contagious. Observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone cortisol~ #selfcare Empathic stress arose primarily when the observer and stressed individual were partners in a couple relationship and the stressful situation could be directly observed through a one-way mirror. However, even the observation of stressed strangers via video transmission was enough to put some people on red alert. In our stress-ridden society, empathic stress is a phenomenon that should not be ignored by the health care system. ~Another reason to understand your strengths and healthy boundaries, learn how to have time out for balance, self care in order to care for others. Public health officials need to design programs frameworks for those close to people suffering from anxiety, depression, trauma, grief so as not to cause disease predispositions and complete burnout in carers ~ Tiff Sharp The fact that we could actually measure this empathic stress in the form of a significant hormone release was astonishing, says Veronika Engert, one of the studys first authors. This is particularly true considering that many studies experience difficulties to induce firsthand stress to begin with. The authors found that empathic stress reactions could be independent of (vicarious stress) or proportional to (stress resonance) the stress reactions of the actively stressed individuals. There must be a transmission mechanism via which the targets state can elicit a similar state in the observer down to the level of a hormonal stress response. sciencedaily/releases/2014/04/140430133143.htm
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 01:35:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015