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Are you Resilient?

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience

Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow?

Whether you can be said to have it or not largely depends not on any particular psychological test but on the way your life unfolds. If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

Environmental threats can come in various guises. Some are the result of low socioeconomic status and challenging home conditions. (Those are the threats studied in Garmezy’s work.) Often, such threats—parents with psychological or other problems; exposure to violence or poor treatment; being a child of problematic divorce—are chronic. Other threats are acute: experiencing or witnessing a traumatic violent encounter, for example, or being in an accident. What matters is the intensity and the duration of the stressor. In the case of acute stressors, the intensity is usually high. The stress resulting from chronic adversity, might be lower—but it “exerts repeated and cumulative impact on resources and adaptation and persists for many months and typically considerably longer.”

protective factors: the elements of an individual’s background or personality that could enable success despite the challenges they faced.

Several elements predicted resilience. Some elements had to do with luck: a resilient child might have a strong bond with a supportive caregiver, parent, teacher, or other mentor-like figure. But another, quite large set of elements was psychological, and had to do with how the children responded to the environment. From a young age, resilient children tended to “meet the world on their own terms.” They were autonomous and independent, would seek out new experiences, and had a “positive social orientation.” “Though not especially gifted, these children used whatever skills they had effectively,” Werner wrote. Perhaps most importantly, the resilient children had what psychologists call an “internal locus of control”: they believed that they, and not their circumstances, affected their achievements. The resilient children saw themselves as the orchestrators of their own fates. 

One of the central elements of resilience, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow?  Events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic,To call something a ‘traumatic event’ belies that fact. There has been coined a different term: PTE, or potentially traumatic event, which he argues is more accurate. The theory is straightforward. Every frightening event, no matter how negative it might seem from the sidelines, has the potential to be traumatic or not to the person experiencing it. 

Frame adversity as a challenge, and you become more flexible and able to deal with it, move on, learn from it, and grow. Focus on it, frame it as a threat, and a potentially traumatic event becomes an enduring problem; you become more inflexible, and more likely to be negatively affected.

Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Which of these factors do you have control over?

LIVE LONG LIVE STRONG!

The seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure(JNC 7) identifies the following as major cardiovascular risk factors:

• Hypertension: component of metabolic syndrome

• Tobacco use, particularly cigarettes, including chewing tobacco

• Elevated LDL cholesterol (or total cholesterol ≥ 240 mg/dL) or low HDL cholesterol: component of metabolic syndrome

• Diabetes mellitus: component of metabolic syndrome

• Obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2): component of metabolic syndrome

• Age > 55 years for men or > 65 years for women: increased risk begins at the respective ages; the Adult Treatment Panel III used earlier age cutpoints to suggest the need for earlier action

• Estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min per 1.73 m2

• Microalbuminuria

• Family history of premature cardiovascular disease (men < 55 years; women < 65 years)

• Lack of exercise

Njoy and Believe,

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