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Sick AGAIN
Mar. 4th, 2003 11:37 amHere's a fun test: place your fingertips against your neck. Are they cold or hot? If they're hot, it means you're very relaxed; cold, and you're stressed out. This is the science behind the mood ring, arguably the coolest thing to come out of the 60s.
In 1967, Holmes and Rahe worked out a list of life events and their comparative stress levels. Death of a spouse - 100 points. Marriage - 50 points. Speeding ticket - 11 points. Sexual difficulties - 39 points. Holmes and Rahe were psychologists interested in the mind-body connection as it pertains to health; higher levels of tension, they posited, lead to a higher risk of illness. How much stress, they wanted to know, is healthy? At what accumulation of stress points, gained over the course of a year, (revised from Homes and Rahe's original six months,) is a person at severe risk for infection?
The breaking point, they found, was about 300. People with over 300 stress points face a significantly higher rate and severity of illness. 300 represents a dangerously high stress level.
By slightly conservative estimates, my life-stress rating is 687, and my hands feel like blocks of ice. Being a connoiseur of mental illness, I have to say this stress thing ranks about even with Spam.
In 1967, Holmes and Rahe worked out a list of life events and their comparative stress levels. Death of a spouse - 100 points. Marriage - 50 points. Speeding ticket - 11 points. Sexual difficulties - 39 points. Holmes and Rahe were psychologists interested in the mind-body connection as it pertains to health; higher levels of tension, they posited, lead to a higher risk of illness. How much stress, they wanted to know, is healthy? At what accumulation of stress points, gained over the course of a year, (revised from Homes and Rahe's original six months,) is a person at severe risk for infection?
The breaking point, they found, was about 300. People with over 300 stress points face a significantly higher rate and severity of illness. 300 represents a dangerously high stress level.
By slightly conservative estimates, my life-stress rating is 687, and my hands feel like blocks of ice. Being a connoiseur of mental illness, I have to say this stress thing ranks about even with Spam.
