The inter -sexual differences in the physiology of stress were called into question by some of the widely known statements. For a long time it was believed that rivalry contributes to good studies, but our abilities to study in a stressful situation actually depend on our gender.
Tracy Schore and George Misegez from the Department of Psychology of the University of Rutgers (New Jersey) found that an increase in the level of sex hormones in the womb and after birth had a critical effect on the effects of stress when learning rats. The stressful situation (for example, pain in the tail area) really increased the speed of training of rats of rats; From a stressful situation, they were only in winning. The difference between the females of rats was obvious and obvious: the female Rat’s abilities worsened when she fell into a stressful situation.
Once I watched a teenage girl learned to drive a car in a fleet. She tried to make a right turn into the parking area and repeated attempts again and again, and her father was displeased with her from a neighboring seat. In the end, almost crying, she yelled at him: Yes, leave me alone!»Then I really wanted to run up to them and share information about the research of scientists. If the results with rats are valid, it would be easier for the girl to make a right turn if her father had not pressed her.
Further studies confirm the idea of. that these differences are laid down in us initially. If you castrate a rat of a rat at birth, it will still be easier for him to study in a stressful situation. However, on the other hand, an increase in testosterone levels in females at birth caused the use of “male” behavioral models in training!
If people everything happens in the same way, then a very important question arises, especially relating to the education system. For a long time it was believed that the rivalry in the class makes students diligently study. This theory helped boys, but brought a lot of harm to girls.
The data that our sex hormones affect studies in stressful situations have significant consequences for women suffering from anxiety and discomfort, such as my patient Diana. To maximize her performance and ability to learn and remember, Diana needs to fall as little as possible into stressful situations.
Of course, it is impossible to make the work without stress (I even had to communicate with the yoga coach, who complained about its customers and bosses, and it is unlikely that anyone will deny that this is a job that is as far-up from stress). But, I think, by making certain efforts, Diana can do her work more comfortable.
Firstly, I would recommend to develop a more effective way to sort information with which she has to work so that she does not feel so busy. The fact that she can solve several problems at the same time does not mean at all that she should do this. Planning tasks for the day in the order of their importance will help her to navigate in the situation and will allow her to cause many tasks to his deputies.
In addition, I believe that she should regularly go to the gym at lunchtime or to visit the massage office after work. And if she can not always control what is happening at her work, then she can at least provide herself with a good rest on the weekend as compensation for stress at work (her nine -year -old daughter loves to walk with her mother to pedicure and manicure). On the other hand, for her employee it is worth increasing the amount of stress, since stress increases its motivation and improves working capacity, although not health in general.
Although the transition from experiments with animals to conclusions about the structure of the human body is always fraught with mistakes, the effect of stress on rating of rats leads to very interesting questions about hormones. For example, whether the post Climacteric women with a reduced estrogen level work in stressful situations better than their young colleagues, at least, with regard to their ability to teach and memorize? It is possible that Diana work on equal terms with her colleague, she just needs to wait another ten years ..