Word: rosch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosch and others point out that no single approach to relaxation is right for everyone. "Meditation may be good for somebody with hypertension," says Rosch, "and bad for someone with a peptic ulcer...
...their greatest source of stress was the changes in society's attitudes toward sex, including sexual permissiveness and "the new social roles of the sexes." While stress might have once taken the form of an occasional calamity, it is now "a chronic, relentless psychosocial situation," says Dr. Paul Rosch, director of the American Institute of Stress in Yonkers...
Curiously, Rosch notes, today's pressures have created a breed of thrill seekers who, often to their own detriment, prefer excitement over tranquillity. Life in the fast lane becomes a dangerous habit for them. "Skydivers get hooked on the jump," he says, "executives purposely arrive at the airport at the last possible minute. People today have become addicted to their own adrenaline secretion...
...nuns, symphony conductors and women who are listed in Who's Who. This suggests that something in the way these people live, possibly even such abstractions as faith, pride of accomplishment or productivity, plays a role in diminishing the ill effects of stress. "The most significant observation," says Rosch of the American Institute of Stress, "is that widows die at rates three to 13 times as high as married women for every known major cause of death. Why? How does this work...
...attended have been booming in recent years. By one estimate, there are now more than 300 stress-management enterprises offering their services to hospitals, clinics and even corporations around the country, up from 120 last September. "Stress management has become a multimillion-dollar-a-year business," says Rosch of the American Institute of Stress...