Bink's Sake
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Stress and relationships
"So at the end of the day, science matters most to us when it can make our lives better. So, let's apply stress to something many of us care about. Our relationships. As I alluded to earlier, one area of our lives that is often greatly injured by stress response is the world of social relationships. When you find yourself in the trenches, getting stressed with your close friend, a family member or a partner, you're at greater risk of doing something that you might later regret. The times in my life when I've said the most hurtful things to people that I love, are times when I was in, was in like a different state of mind. John Gottman of the Gottman institute, call this phenomenon, physiologic flooding. Physiologic flooding is the stress response. The flooding of certain systems that, interestingly, when it comes to relationships, seems to be a bad thing. It turns out that some of our higher-order brain functions, tend not to work as well when we are stressed out. S...
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