Happier Women: 25 Ways to Reduce Stress Video Clip Collection
Ivanhoe Broadcast News
Now more than ever, career issues, family crises, and health problems can add up to an emotional overload. This collection of 25 video clips offers guidance, reassurance, and useful facts for busy women. With an average clip length of 90 seconds, the collection incorporates mini-case studies and commentary from experts—providing visual support for instructors and counselors who want to reach overworked, overscheduled learners. Video clips include… • What’s Causing Your Headache? Not all headaches are created equal. This clip describes various factors behind headaches, which many people often spend an entire lifetime battling. Causes include rheumatoid arthritis, sinus problems, high blood pressure, lung disorders, and even Lyme disease. • Extreme PMS: Despite the trials of PMS, some women live through something even worse: PMDD, or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. This clip features a psychiatrist who works with women who suffer from PMDD and wants them to know that it’s not in their heads. • Stress and Diabetes: New research finds major stress in a mother’s life can make her children more prone to Type One diabetes. This clip features a doctor who studies insulin resistance and stress hormone production during pregnancy. • Burned Out to Fired Up! Burnout: it’s a real threat to working women and can quickly end promising careers. This clip highlights women who, facing job burnout, made life-changing transitions into successful, fulfilling livelihoods. • Depressed at Work: Mentally and physically debilitating, depression has a huge impact on business and the workforce. This clip looks at ways to combat it, from setting work limits to the use of a vagus nerve stimulator—a pacemaker-like device implanted near the collarbone. • The Quest for Rest: Tired of Being Tired? Millions of Americans have a sleep disorder and don’t even know it. This clip looks at four women in four different stages of life to find out what’s keeping them up—and what can help them sleep. • Is Your Commute Killing You? Drivers in Los Angeles spend an average of 90 minutes sucking in diesel fumes and “ultra-fine particles” every day. This clip highlights the dangers of UFPs and their link to increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. • Blood Pressure: Lower Yours: About 70 million Americans have high blood pressure—but many don’t realize it because the symptoms are so subtle. This clip studies the problem and suggests ways to lower blood pressure by losing weight, reducing stress, quitting smoking, and limiting alcohol. • Care for Caregivers: Unpaid home caregivers—the unsung heroes of medicine. This clip focuses on support and guidance for caregivers. Featured tips include taking time to rest, maintaining dialog with the patient, watching for signs of depression, and letting the sick make decisions. • State of Mind: Are You Happy? In the 1970s, women reported being happier than men. Today, the roles are reversing. This clip looks at the happiness gap and features a doctor who promotes four “rational values” that lead to happiness: romance, career, family, and self. • State of Mind: Health and Happiness: Is a bad mood bad for the body? This clip points to research linking state-of-mind with state-of-health. The study found that happy people exposed to cold and flu viruses were one-third less likely to develop a cold than their more negative counterparts. • State of Mind: Path to True Happiness: Research suggests that Americans are among the most depressed people in the world—but a town 70 miles north of Manhattan is clearly an exception. This clip visits Pawling, New York, home of the Norman Vincent Peale Center—a bastion of positive thinking. • Can Your Friends Make You Fat? The dangers of secondhand smoke are clear, but what about second-hand fat? This clip highlights a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that says friends and acquaintances may exert a powerful influence on weight gain or loss. • Job Promotions: From Stressed to Best: A recent study ranks job promotion as a top source of stress. This clip points out the dangers of taking a sink-or-swim approach to career advancement. Upwardly mobile viewers are encouraged to build an open and honest dialog with their employers. • Eco-Anxiety: Food, water, and energy shortages aren’t just geopolitical issues—they have a psychological impact. This clip examines a disturbing mental health issue: fear and panic over the environment. A therapist who deals with eco-anxiety is featured. • Healthy Workplaces: Workout at Work: Keeping employees healthy and productive is a priority for well-run businesses. This clip looks at companies that have implemented health initiatives, such as fitness centers and workout classes offered on-site, during business hours. • Quit Smoking Diet: Could what you eat actually help you stop smoking? This clip emphasizes the role of diet for those who want to give up tobacco. Viewers meet a psychologist who believes smoking and eating go hand-in-hand. • Women and Hair Loss: It’s a problem many women don’t talk about. This clip introduces a variety of therapies to help women rebuild hair volume, including laser stimulation that causes hair to grow. A physician who treats the problem is featured. • Postpartum Depression: Thousands of women suffer from postpartum depression without even realizing it. This clip presents doctors who say it’s time for the government to step in—citing a need for mandatory postpartum depression screening. • Stressed Out! Hurried Woman Syndrome: Can a hectic lifestyle lead to a dangerous illness? This clip looks at what’s being called Hurried Woman Syndrome. Viewers are reminded of the right ways (prioritizing, focusing on health) and wrong ways (alcohol, smoking, overeating, denial) to deal with stress. • Stressed Out! Top 10 Stress Busters: To build a stress-beating strategy, this clip suggests yoga and meditation; diaphragmatic breathing; supplements like kava, valerian, and St. John’s wort; taking a vacation; leisure activities; a strong social network; focusing on one’s own needs; and more. • Birthdays Without Pressure: No more birthday parties that max out credit cards—and stress levels. This clip highlights a growing movement aimed at stopping extravagant birthday bashes for kids. Viewers are given suggestions for keeping celebrations low-key and low-pressure. • Moms: Expect the Unexpected: Child injuries of one kind or another are inevitable, but they can be minimized. This clip shows smart methods of accident prevention. For effective childproofing, viewers are encouraged to view surroundings from a child’s point of view. • Clutter Control: Bills, credit card offers, magazines, junk mail—without vigilance and organization, it all leads to clutter. This clip presents the story of one mother who decided to take control, making good use of closets, storage boxes, cabinets, and the recycling bin. • 6 Mistakes in the Gym: Can a workout actually do harm? This clip points out six gym mistakes and how to fix them. Errors include poor stretching, refusing to take a break, leaning on the treadmill, too much intensity, gorging on energy bars and sports drinks, and working out seven days a week. (53 minutes)