Balance Pressure: 皮质醇 & 内啡肽

导言

I want to distinguwish the difference between the concept of courage to do the job and the pressure we meet during our work.

工作过劳

  • WHO对长时间工作的定义是,每周工作时间超过55个小时。^2
  • 而“过劳死”的原因,主要源于两类疾病:缺血性心脏病和中风。WHO此前研究表明,长时间工作会使人心理压力增大,从而显著增加这两种疾病的发病率:
    • 其一,释放皮质醇(压力荷尔蒙);
    • 其二,因压力出现酗烟酒、失眠、缺乏锻炼、不健康饮食等行为。

皮质醇(压力荷尔蒙)

皮质醇是一种类固醇荷尔蒙,它会在您对压力做出反应时融入血液。任何压力都能提升皮质醇水平。这些压力可能是常见压力,比如工作或在家中出现的压力。也可能是身体上的压力,比如车祸、重摔或遭遇危险。皮质醇水平上升是身体对这些紧张情况所做出的自然反应的一部分。

皮质醇水平通常在压力升高时达到峰值,在压力减轻时恢复到正常水平。皮质醇急剧上升能帮助您的身体在压力下拥有良好的表现。但如果长时间保持较高的皮质醇浓度就会对身体的一些功能产生负面影响。

皮质醇的作用

皮质醇可导致体重增加

很多人受到压力困扰时会转向食物。对高脂肪、高糖分食物的渴望实际上是长期皮质醇水平上升的结果。[^4]

皮质醇水平上升会刺激额外胰岛素的释放,这会导致血糖下降。为了让血糖恢复至正常范围,您会渴望含大量碳水化合物的食物。高糖分食物只会短暂地让您的血糖回升,但它会形成一个不良习惯。

在压力和皮质醇水平长时间上升时,胰岛素和对高脂肪食物的渴望也会上升。久而久之,使用高糖分食物来平衡血糖会导致胰岛素抵抗性和体重增加。

请注意,皮质醇本身不会引起体重增加。 但皮质醇水平长时间上升的后果及其对胰岛素和血糖的影响会导致体重上升。

大量的压力荷尔蒙会让回忆信息变得困难。

一项科学实验表明,皮质醇水平开始下降时,人们就能更有效地回忆起信息。这项研究的结果支持这一观点,在感到压力时试着平静下来可提高您记忆信息的能力。[^4]

深呼吸、拉伸、冥想和积极肯定都是降低皮质醇水平并帮助您平静下来的活动。您以后在感到压力时可以试着停顿一分钟来放松和呼吸,这可能就会帮助您记住重要的事情。

高皮质醇症状 - 库欣综合征

  • 慢性病^3
  • 皮肤爆痘,总是生病。
  • 体重增加/向心型肥胖(肚腩有赘肉但双臂与双腿较细)出现锁骨上脂肪垫和水牛背,腹部脂肪明显堆积,而四肢却不肥胖,有时反而消瘦,
  • 精力不足/睡眠困难: 也许你睡不着。也许你睡得太多。
  • 难以集中注意力
  • 免疫系统受损

减轻压力大致方法

  1. 每天锻炼逃避工作压力,不仅有信心,还能促进内啡肽的释放。^3身体分泌产生的皮质醇数量与运动或压力强度呈正比,在进行冲刺或举重等高强度练习时,皮质醇水平会增加;而冥想、打太极、步行或瑜伽等温和运动能保持皮质醇分泌水平适中。^5
  2. 每日冥想。花一些时间来调节压力,调整身心。
  3. 做你喜欢的事情: 对抗压力的最好方法是快乐和笑😀。
  4. 调整睡眠:充分和有规律的睡眠。清晨,您身体的皮质醇产量自然激增,使您进入清醒状态。 一旦你开始新的一天,皮质醇的自然峰值就会因压力而出现,但一般来说,你的皮质醇水平会下降,直到睡觉时为止。
  5. 调整饮食:糖分会导致皮质醇水平显着升高,

the concept difference

If metaphor our carrer to Running speed race, the courage decide the initial speed, and the pressure will effect the speed when you are
running(appropriate pressure can make you hurry up, but much pressure will lead to a desparate give up endding)

pressure

pressure born in the complex real-life situation fulled of undealed-difficulty and unexpected-chaos things.

  1. current dilemma
    1. many small failure/frustrations (A strange road of throns that no one have tried) or just one big difficulty(e.g, be dismissed)
    2. chaos: to many things to do or less time to do. 真实生活的繁琐远超学校象牙塔里的想象
  2. Path to dream-future
    1. future is too higher to achieve. e.g., the unemployment tide under economic downturn. (this could be desperate for many people, get free from this heavy pressure is very hard, you should rethink and rebuild yourself to find a hidden possibily )
    2. self-target : can not catch up the ideal myself. (e.g, besides the work, have time to learn english and interesting topics about LLM self-deployment)

release pressure

1. Swiftly Achieving a Milestone:

Clearing the Clouds and Dispelling the Lingering Effects of Past Setbacks

2. Sorting out chaos in task priority , and deal with they one by one

if you have a parternor to share your confusion, it will be much helpful.

3. self-target degrade

if the pressure is too heavy to trap your feet, you should lower your self-learning plan to a achiveable level. 降低难度与任务拆分简化 是 缓解压力和迈出第一步最好的方法[^1]

the following two kinds of entertainment to release pressure

entertainment for keep mind in a stable and harmony clear-target-chasing condition, not in self-doubt whirlpool or target-lost condition.

工作与娱乐完全分割,应该不是最佳的状态。理想的样子应该是适当娱乐能助力工作,放松心情。努力工作是为了能更开心的玩耍。而不是the more you have fun, the more you lose.

and those should be

  1. it not took too much brain, or genarate burden to brain
  2. it can efficeintly release negative emotion just singing loudly

4. more physical release is more useful

  1. Sex (+100)
  2. 舒缓的音乐(+30)钢琴
  3. physical stimulation and relaxation (exercise, sex)
    1. 运动
  4. singing is the best entertainment beacause these reason:

5. mind escape temporary

  1. mind to escape the earth online without brain to a lovely and happy pressure-less virtual world

    1. funny video for fun
    2. AMSR/anime for the lack of love
    3. games to living in a pressure-less world
  2. 避免负反馈严重的娱乐

    1. 无意义的刷奇怪的视频。(浪费时间,扭曲价值观, -100)
    2. 游戏(分类型)

6. Exploring the Ideal Love and Life

Life as depicted in TV dramas with strong leading ladies can serve as a compass pointing toward the pursuit of an ideal love and life. It’s like a guidebook to help you navigate your way towards the kind of life and love you’ve always dreamt of. So, let’s delve into this journey of exploration.

参考文献

[^1]: 【何同学】 为了找到专注的秘诀,我们找500人做了个实验…

Author

Shaojie Tan

Posted on

2023-10-26

Updated on

2025-01-30

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