#578 - Dr Robert Waldinger - Lessons From The World's Longest Study On Happiness
Modern Wisdom
The Relationship Benefits of Stress Regulation
Relationships are stress regulators./nIn fact, we're all meant to respond to stress./nWe're all meant to go into fight or flight mode when we're having a challenge./nThe body is meant to go back to equilibrium, to baseline, when the threat is removed./nIf I have something happen that's really upsetting during my day and I start ruminating about it, I can feel my heart rate increase./nI can feel myself really start to rev up./nIf I go home and I can talk to my partner or I can call somebody on the phone who's a good listener, I can literally feel my body calm down again./nWhat we think happens is that people who can't do that stay in a kind of chronic fight or flight mode because stressors come along every day./nThat question of, well, how could it be that stress, bad relationships, loneliness, makes you more likely to get coronary artery disease and arthritis?/nWell, it seems that there are these general effects of the chronic stress mode that break down multiple body systems.
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