Ductility, toughness and resilience

  There are a few other things that we can determine from the stress-strain curve of metal that is quite interesting. And I’d like to just spend a moment looking at that. So again, we’ve got the stress here, on the vertical axis, strain– typical metal. We have a curve that looks something like this. It comes up looking linear elastic, plastic, ultimate tensile strength, and then fracture. And so we’ve determined all of the strengths. We have the yield strength, the ultimate tensile strength, and the fracture strength. But what other properties can we determine? Well, first of all, one of them that you may have heard about is the ductility. So ductility has a usage in common language. You might say, well, what’s ductility all about? If something’s very ductile, you might say, well, it describes how much you can stretch something. But of course, we know that that’s not accurate enough. Stretch, is that referring to elastic or plastic? So we’ve got to be better than that.   And in fact, I’ll tell you ductility is a measure of a plastic strain. So we know it’s a strain quantity, and it refers to plastic deformation, only plastic strain to fracture. Now we’ve got something we can work with– plastic strain to fracture. So let’s see well, this is the point of fracture. That’s a fracture. So that fracture, if we unload we’d have a value here for total strain. Let me write that in there for you, total strain. If we unloaded– if we took the total strain there at fracture, just a moment before it fractured, that would be our total strain. But what if we unloaded it? Somehow you knew just infinitesimally before it was going to fracture– well, we know that Young’s modulus is structure-independent.   So it won’t change. So we would have unloaded that same modulus. This means we come back down here to a value on the strain axis, a finite value corresponding to zero stress. It’s unloaded, there’s no stress on it, but there’s still some persistent strain. That strain has to be plastic. That’s a plastic strain, which means that this strain here is elastic. That’s elastic, and that makes sense because what is that? That’s the strain underneath this linear unloading portion.   And the unloading portion, if it’s linear, is governed by Hooke’s law. And we know that’s elastic because Hooke’s law refers to elastic behavior. So if we unload down and we get plastic strain, that plastic strain has got to be the ductility. So ductility, you unload at fracture. And the remaining strain is the ductility. Another interesting property that we can determine from this stress-strain behavior for a metal, for other material classes as well, is called toughness.   And the toughness is sometimes not such an intuitive quantity. You can understand strength, it’s force over area. You got a sense for that. It’s pressure, if you will. Even modulus you can kind of get a bit of an intuitive sense for it because it’s how hard is it to bend something elastically. It’s a little harder, but the toughness is– toughness, I’ll tell you what the tough is. Toughness is the energy– it’s an energy term. And it’s energy absorbed to fracture. What we can do is integrate. And that is to take the area under the curve. So if we take the area under this curve here, it would be this area here, all this area here under the curve is the toughness.   And how do we know that? We could look at it dimensionally. If we’re taking a product of stress and strain and looking at the dimensions, stress has units of Pascals. And what’s a Pascal? A Pascal is a Newton per square meter. Well, I can go on living my life multiplying whatever I want by 1 and just multiply this screen by 1. You didn’t even notice. So here we go, where I multiply Newton per square meter by 1, meter over meter, and I end up with a familiar term in the numerator– Newton meter. And of course in the denominator I’ve got volume units. But what’s the Newton meter? A Newton meter is nothing more than a joule.   So we’ve now got joules per volume as units when we integrate under this. And that’s great because we want an energy unit. So if we integrate under the entire curve up to fracture, it tells us how much energy went into fracturing that. And that includes elastic and plastic deformation. The final thing that we can obtain from the stress curve, is another energy unit and it’s quite useful– it’s a stored energy unit this time. We’ve got stress and strain. We’ve got our linear elastic region, plastic deformation, and fracture– is the resilience. Thus resilience is a measure of the stored elastic strain energy at the yield strength.   So again, we know if it’s going to be an energy term, energy per volume for a given volume of material, we’re going to have to integrate under the curve. And where are we going to do it from? Well, we’ll go to the yield strength. And we go down from there. And if we unloaded at the yield strength– I’m going to be a little careful about something– if we unloaded at the yield strength, you’d find that you have a little sliver of permanent or plastic strain. Maybe it’s close to the 0.2% offset strain. You’d probably have some plastic strain accumulated when we had yield. For practical purposes, we say it’s elastic before yielding and it’s plastic after. You might have a sliver. So we’re not going to include that if we’re going to be strict with our definition here. And so that area there is the resilience. And that area is just an area of a triangle. And we know that the area of a triangle is 1/2 base times height, which in our case is 1/2 of– well, what’s the base? The base is the elastic strain.   And that’s good because we’re after the stored elastic strain energy. So we’ve got strain elastic. And what’s the height? Well, the height is the yield strength. But we can, again, do better than this. Because if it’s elastic, it’s the area under this– or it’s the strain underneath this linear unloading portion. And the linear unloading portion, we have a mathematical equation for. We have stress equals E times strain. It’s a straight line. So that means that the strain is going to be equal to sigma over E. And we fire that in here, and we find that the resilience is– I should erase that– the resilience is going to be 1/2 of sigma, and this is the sigma yield. That’s what we’re using here. So that’s sigma yield over E times sigma yield.   So at the end of the day, the resilience, which we often use this– I’ll introduce this symbol here. The full name for this is the modulus of resilience. And modulus is just a fancy word for a special number. So our special number here is the modulus of resilience. And we use the uppercase letter U. Is 1/2 sigma yield squared upon E– and that’s an interesting little equation. It tells you the stored strain energy for a material. So if you’re going to make a material for a spring, you’d look for something with a high modulus of resilience. And again, the units here, the dimensions here of modulus of resilience are going to be joules per cubic meter. As found on YouTube Explaindio Agency Edition FREE Training How to Create Explainer Videos & SELL or RENT them! Join this FREE webinar | Work Less & Earn More With Explaindio AGENCY EDITION OIP-48

High TSH Levels: What Should You Do?

  Hey there, this is Dr. Ruscio. I just want to share a quick update regarding the thyroid TSH and why you should be careful in terms of what you are told you should do about an elevation of your TSH. You’ve hopefully heard some of my criticisms of the field of functional, natural, and integrative medicine regarding how overzealously, we’re interpreting small perturbations and findings on thyroid labs.   This certainly includes people I work with in the clinic. I just had a patient this morning and she had previously a TSH of 6.3. So the cutoff on most labs is 4.5. So she was according to the conventional lab ranges, slightly elevated. This is known as subclinical hypothyroid. When that minimum elevation of TSH is paired with normal T4, this is known as subclinical hypothyroid, meaning you’re not a true hypothyroid. This is so crucially important because the data here are fairly clear in showing that most of these cases will spontaneously remit or will spontaneously, all on their own with no treatment or therapeutics or support, go back to normal.   Now, what was so interesting here is that while working with me, she was also doing some local testing with her NP, her nurse practitioner. I advised her not to be too quick to act on this 6.3, this elevated TSH paired with normal T4 and also normal T3. Let’s retest in a month or two, especially given the fact that she has been improving symptomatically. As the data suggests, you will likely see normality or normalization of your TSH.   So what do you know, about two months later? Her TSH has now gone into the normal range of 3.6, from 6.3, and T4 and T3 are still normal. All the while she has continued to improve symptomatically. To contrast this with what I think needs to be amended in the field, her NP wanted to put her on thyroid hormone at that initial visit with the elevated TSH. What a travesty that would have been, because once you put someone on thyroid hormone, the repeat testing doesn’t tell you if they no longer need the hormone, because all of the levels have been paved over by the hormone that the person is now taking orally.   So this is a crucially important situation where we don’t want to be too quick to act to put people on thyroid hormone without giving adequate time to see if, especially at these subclinical findings, again – high TSH, normal T4 according to the conventional ranges – normalizes all on its own at your next retest. The trajectory of these two different patient scenarios is so different. The one patient from the more, what I would argue, the overzealous camp will be put on thyroid hormone in some cases for years until a provider has enough common sense to go back and check this.   Or, as in this case with a more reserved and kind of circumspect approach, no medicine was started and a retest a couple of months later found she was back into the normal range. We stopped her from going on a medication ostensibly for years that she would not have needed. If you’re concerned about this, double check and get a second opinion to make sure that you’re A) not on thyroid hormone that you don’t need to be or B) that perhaps you are given thyroid hormone too quickly, based upon this lab work, that didn’t justify that approach. Now, according to the philosophy of some providers, subclinical hypothyroidism does justify the use of medication.   Although the data here are clear that there is almost no benefit shown when those who have that pattern of high TSH and normal T4 go on thyroid hormone. Almost no benefit has been documented unless you’re very young, you are pregnant or are struggling with infertility, or your TSH is well above 10. These are important nuances to understand in navigating the conversation around thyroid, which is all too often vilified or positioned as a cause of all symptoms. It may well be, but we don’t want to force upon someone thyroid hormone when the labs don’t justify that because that can lead someone to be on medication they don’t need.   This also distracts from actually determining what underlying cause is leading to the symptoms that you’re having. So again, I would encourage you to double-check. Don’t stop taking the medication until you check with your provider, but if you’re suspicious that your provider is being a bit overzealous, double-check. It may be well worth it. Okay. That is our show. Hopefully, this helps. As found on YouTube Explaindio Agency Edition FREE Training How to Create Explainer Videos & SELL or RENT them! Join this FREE webinar | Work Less & Earn More With Explaindio AGENCY EDITION OIP-48

Societal Expectations and Inner Desires: The Complex Dynamics of Motivation

  Motivation is the experience of wanting something or wanting to avoid it. When we study how we get motivated to learn, develop,   and succeed, we can identify two contrary forces: extrinsic and intrinsic ones On the one hand, we want to belong, desire to be loved, and seek to get the attention we think we deserve. We are motivated extrinsically by rewards, to progress socially. On the other hand, we strive to explore things that are satisfying in themselves,   disregarding rewards. We are motivated intrinsically,   by a natural curiosity which we follow because it feels right. The opinions of others don’t matter. To understand why we probably need a good mix of both,   let’s imagine two four-year-old children. Both grow up in families that want only the best for their kids but have completely opposing views on how to motivate them to succeed.   Tom’s parents believe that all their boy needs is love.   To not undermine his intrinsic interests, they never praise him or use rewards. Eventually, they decide to not give him any feedback at all, fearing it could corrupt his free mind. Over the years Tom develops an immense capacity to imagine,   spending most of his time playing by himself. By being allowed to follow his passions,   he learns what he likes and what he doesn’t. But Tom doesn’t learn what others expect and gets easily irritated when he’s asked to do something in a particular way. Mira’s parents believe that their precious little girl needs clear rules about what’s good and what’s not. They see it as their duty to help Mira learn by providing precise and actionable feedback on all aspects of her young life.  Mira spends her days in preschool, music, and ballet lessons. Over the years she gets exceptionally good at the things that please the adults around her.   However, since there is neither time to play nor to relax, she doesn’t discover her interests. Being alone bores her. At 14, Tom is independent and begins writing science fiction. He realizes that he isn’t quite like his friends and spends most of his time at the library. When he shares his writing,   others can’t quite relate. At the same age, Mira is at the top of her class and has plenty of friends and admirers. She knows what is expected of her and makes sure to meet those expectations.   Sometimes the pressure becomes unbearable, although that’s her secret. By the day he turns 21, Tom has a unique perspective of the world. He is intelligent,   but doesn’t like to work for money and hence is often broke. He hates the idea of conforming to conventional norms and is annoyed if someone interferes with his creative expression.   At this point, Tom knows a lot about himself but doesn’t connect well with others.   To him, people seem to follow rules without questioning them— just like sheep.   Integrating into the society is difficult at this point and he begins to search for utopia. Mira makes it into a top medical school where she realizes, she’ll never be top of the class again.   Once that place seems out of reach, her motivation drops and she wonders if medicine interests her. Since quitting is no option,   she takes up a second major and runs for student council president. Soon Mira will know everything about what others expect, but nothing about what she likes for herself. All her life she has just listened – driven by external feedback loops.   At this point, she’s also lost the ability to question the norms of the society she grew up in. Listening to our hearts can tell us who we are, but not how to be happy among others.   Listening to others can motivate us to be a part of their world, but doesn’t teach us if that world is ours.   This is why it’s probably good for the two to go together.   Then we can learn what we want, and get the feedback that we need to stay motivated to explore new roads into a better society. A large body of research shows that balancing the two forces is not straightforward. One meta-analysis of 128 studies examined the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.   While most rewards significantly undermine our intrinsic interest,   positive feedback — which is an extrinsic motivator — inspires us to keep going. Put simply, honest words of encouragement get us going,   while money or gifts undermine our inner drive.   What about you? Do you listen to your heart or the voices of society?   And from your personal experience, which of the two eventually takes your decision?   Share your thoughts and check the description to dive deeper into the topic. Sprouts videos are published under the Creative Commons License. That means our videos are free and anyone can download, edit, and play them for personal use. Public schools, governments,   and non-profit organizations can also use them for training, online courses, or designing new curriculums. To help us stay independent and support our work, you can join our patrons and contribute. Just visit patreon.com/sprouts. Even one dollar can make a difference. As found on YouTube Explaindio Agency Edition FREE Training How to Create Explainer Videos & SELL or RENT them! Join this FREE webinar | Work Less & Earn More With Explaindio AGENCY EDITION OIP-48

True stress, true strain and work hardening

  So we’ve sketched stress-strain. A curve like this for typical metal. And we know an equation within the linear elastic region. That’s before the proportional limit. And that’s, of course, Hooke’s Law– sigma equals E times epsilon. But what do we have after plastic deformation? How can we perform calculations after plastic deformation? If, for example, we had something that– a bolt in the ceiling– oh, that’s a horrendous drawing. Let’s fix that. Let’s fix that before I lose my job. So here’s– that’s even worse. Oh, my goodness. OK. This is good. No, that’s still awful. But there’s a hook and, I don’t know, something is hanging from it. I was going to draw a force so I don’t have to draw something else. There’s a hook hanging from the ceiling and you apply a force to it and you want to know, well, how much does that tie– that’s what that is– it’s called intention– that tensile tie– elongate? What’s its distance? What’s its length? And, well, you can only, at this point, do calculations if the force results in a stress that’s less than the yield strength.   If it’s more than that, while it’s classically deformed, we couldn’t deal with it unless we had some kind of way of describing the shape of the curve after it leaves the linear elastic region. And it’s nice. We do have an equation that fits the curve. But it’s going– we can’t use engineering stress. We have to use what’s called true stress. So that’s what I’d like to introduce to you right now.   So again, we’re going to take a look at a generalized sample here. And the idea– the goal– is of course that we’re going to go to be able to this– calculate and understand plastic deformation. So here’s our sample with its initial cross-sectional area as we’ve discussed before. And we said, well, when you load it, it gets longer and gets narrower. And it’s that reduction in the cross-sectional area that we’re interested in. This area here now, we could call it an instantaneous area. Whereas this area, the white one, was the initial area. The initial area was what we started with. But then while the load is applied– sorry, let me draw the force in. While the load is applied, the cross-sectional area has decreased. So the first thing you could do is we could say, all right, well, that means that this material itself is experiencing a force over a smaller area.   So we could define the true stress as the force over that actual cross-sectional area. This is the true stress. This is the stress that the material itself is feeling. OK? And that subscript I am telling us this is the instantaneous cross-sectional area. Instantaneous. I can’t do more than one thing at the same time. Instantaneous– I missed a U– cross-sectional area. Instantaneous cross-sectional area. And I’ll show you what the plot would look like in just a moment. We could also do the same thing for the strain, although that’s going to be just a little bit– require a little bit more thinking. The true strain has to account for the fact that what we’re doing is we’re applying a change in length. Right? We’re elongating it over a certain length. The very first little bit of elongation is elongation over l0. But then, after that, the elongation is elongated over the previous length which was l0 plus that little delta l.     And so if you do that for infinitely small– infinitesimally small changes in length, the way we would write that is we’d have to say, the true strain, what we’re doing is we’re integrating. We’re integrating those infinitesimally small changes in length– that’s dl– by l from l0– the initial length– to the instantaneous length. And so if we do that, you find that you have ln of l instantaneous minus length 0, which is ln of l instantaneous over l0. So we have another equation there. I’ll put a box around that. So this is the true strain. True strain. And if we take that true stress and we plot it against the true strain, I’ll show you what we get. Let me just plot stress and strain and I’ll show you what we’ve already seen. That’s the engineering stress-strain curve. And then what I’ll do is I’ll plot for you– after it starts to plastically deform the– ran out of space there– the true stress– so this one here– continues to increase.   It doesn’t have that decrease at the UTS. That’s the true stress true strain curve. And this one is, of course, engineering. The nice thing about this plot is once you’ve got true stress and true strain, we can fit that data quite nicely for most metals with a simple equation. And that is true stress is equal to this coefficient times the true strain raised to the power n. So that’s an equation that fits that true stress true strain data quite nicely. And what’s useful about this is these are constants. That’s the constant n– I’ll define it for you in a moment– and this K is also a constant. Those are material properties. We can look those up in an engineering handbook. So n is called the– well, this equation is called the strain-hardening equation.   Strain hardening equation. And strain hardening– hardening correlates to– hardness correlates to strength. So really this is the equation that’s telling us that we’re strengthening the material and we’ve got the strain hardening exponent and the strain hardening coefficient K. As found on YouTube Explaindio Agency Edition FREE Training How to Create Explainer Videos & SELL or RENT them! Join this FREE webinar | Work Less & Earn More With Explaindio AGENCY EDITION OIP-48

How to Stop Overthinking? | Sadhguru Answers

  Sadhguru: People have no energy because of mental diarrhea. You eat bad food and then try to stop diarrhea, it’s not going to work. This much you do. Tonight, before you go to bed, keep it down and go to bed. In a little while, if you simply sit here, things around you will reverberate. Is it possible to do it without using specific mudras, whatever? Yes. These are all small help, little assistance. You don’t see a Shiva or a Krishna holding mudra and sitting like this, (Gestures) simply intense. Nor will you ever see me sitting like this.   (Gestures) No. You will not see me practicing Shambhavi or this or that. If I just close my eyes for 20 seconds, I’m done. I am ready for the day. So, these are all… This is all good help. But is it the only way to do it? No. You can simply sit. If you learn to simply sit, you’ll become tremendously intense. Right now, your energy is simply expended by doing unnecessary endless activities.   When you have so much mental diarrhea, how can you have energy? Suppose you have diarrhea, do you see how weak you feel? (Laughter) Yes, or no? Right now, this mental diarrhea, that’s why people have no energy. They want to just eat and sleep all the time because of mental diarrhea, it’s very exhausting. (Laughs) If you have physical diarrhea, you know how exhausting it is. Yes? This is also equally exhausting. People are sleeping eight hours – ten hours a day not because they are working so much or because their body is in such a bad state.   It’s just mental diarrhea. If you stop the mental diarrhea, there’s enough energy to make this (Referring to oneself) very, very intense. Now “How do I stop mental diarrhea?” If you have diarrhea… physical diarrhea, what is the first thing to do? Hmm? What? Participants: (Unclear) Sadhguru: Yes, run to the toilet, I know that. (Laughter) I am saying (Laughs) as a corrective measure, what is the first thing you do? No, as a corrective measure, what is the first thing you do? The first thing is to stop eating, right? Yes or no? Diarrhea means in some way we’ve eaten something that the body doesn’t want. It’s trying to throw it out. Yes? You have taken something inside that the body doesn’t like. It wants to throw it out. The first thing is to stay away from food for some time. You eat bad food and then try to stop diarrhea, it’s not going to work. Similarly, bad food for the mind is just this.   You have gotten identified with things that you are not. The moment you get identified with things that you are not, mental diarrhea is inevitable. It’s bad food for the mind – now it will run endlessly, do what you want. You do any damn meditation, you say, Shiva, Rama, it’s not going to stop. (Laughs) It’s not stopped, isn’t it? Because bad food is being eaten.   Every day you’re getting identified with more and more things and you want to stop your mind. You do whatever kind of circus, it is not going to stop. If you disidentify with everything – if you understand “what is you” and “what is not you,” if you keep a little distance from that, your mind will become still. If you want you can use it, otherwise you can keep it. Now my hand is there, if I want I can move it, otherwise I can keep it. This is a useful hand. Suppose it starts jumping like this, (Gestures) you clearly know there is some kind of an ailment, isn’t it? Yes or no? So if the hand is jumping, you know it’s an ailment. If the mind is jumping, is it an ailment or not? Participant: Yes. Sadhguru: Ahh. The ailment has come because of a continuous wrong diet. You tell your mind, that “I am this, I am this, I am that, I am that,” it’s having diarrhea. You stop giving it the wrong food. If you clearly see, what… Even if you do not know “what is me,” at least you know “what is not me,” isn’t it? This much you do.   Tonight, before you go to bed, sit on your bed and sit down and discount everything that is not you. This house in which you are living, is this me? No. This loving parent or mother, father, wife or husband or child, they are wonderful, but is this me? No. Now these nice clothes I am wearing, is this me? No. Now my body, I like it but is this me? No. Now I’m having so many thoughts, is this me? No. Now I am having wonderful emotions, is this me? No. Like this, everything that’s not you, before you sleep, keep it down and go to bed.   Tomorrow morning, you will wake up considerably more intense than today. Every day you do it. In a little while, if you simply sit here, things around you will reverberate, really. A few years ago… a couple of years ago I was in America and this is a very typical American question – this lady (Laughs) comes up to me and she’s very angry. “I have been doing this yoga for the last 35 years, nothing happened.   But you went and just sat on a rock and things happened to you. (Laughter) This is not fair. Where is that damn rock?” (Laughter) She thinks it’s the rock that did it. (Laughter) The only sadhana that I did in my life is, right from a very early age, though I was very actively involved with everybody around me, I never identified myself with my parents or my siblings or my endless number of friends or the society or the religion or the country or anything around me – never identified, not that I was not involved. I was very involved and very active. Even today I am very active and involved but not identified. If you don’t identify with anything, there is enough energy in this (Referring to oneself) to become intense. See I want you to understand, your life energy right now in this body, how many things it’s doing here as you’re sitting here! Hello, do you know the complexity of the activity it is doing? Every cell in the body, your liver, your kidney, your damn spleen, and all kinds of stupid things that we cannot even figure even today, yes? Just see as you sit here, how many things this energy is doing.   Obviously, it must be intense to do all this. You are not able to experience it because of diarrhea. (Few laugh) Tch… When you have diarrhea, (Gestures) that’s how you feel, isn’t it? Yes or no? So that’s how it is. Stop the diarrhea, stop eating bad food, diarrhea will stop. Once the diarrhea stops, there’s enough energy in this to sit here and reverberate in a very intense way. As found on YouTube 15 Modules Of Intimate Video Training With Dr. Joe Vitale – You’re getting simple and proven steps to unlock the Awakened Millionaire Mindset: giving you a path to MORE money, … download-2k

Battle Like Champions’ Champion! (Clash of Clans Season Challenges)

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  This November with a Clash of Clans World Finals, a new Champion will rise. The Champions’ Champion! Are you ready? Watch as your favorite teams clash head-to-head. It’s a battle for survival. And celebrate by gearing up in exclusive new tournament attire. Complete the set and rise up the ranks to be the ultimate Champion of Champions! Four, three, two, one, they are demolished! We are ready to crown a new World Champion! Only one team will claim the trophy. Only one chance to claim the Champions’ Champion. Clash of Clans! The 2023 Clash of Clans World Championship, November 24th-26th in Helsinki, Finland. Go to esports. “clash of Clans”. com to buy your tickets now! OIP-46 Read More: The Entering Student Program Presents: A Miner’s Guide To Stress Management As found on YouTube

The Entering Student Program Presents: A Miner’s Guide To Stress Management

  As a student in college, there are a ton of problems you have to face everyday Problems, you might know how to handle, and others you just simply would like to avoid causing you stress. Stress is a common fact of life, but, being stressed out is not Don’t allow stress to manage your life.   You should manage your stress, So then.   What is stress According to Medical News Today stress is the feeling you have under pressure.   When you are stressed, your body responds as if you’re in danger by raising your heartbeat.   If stress happens too often or too long, you can experience some bad effects like headaches, upset, stomach back pain, or even trouble sleeping As a student, you encounter even more challenges.   Having homework studying for exams, managing deadlines, and struggling with your social life can make.   You feel stress not only affecting your mind but also your body, emotions, and behavior, potentially causing more serious negative effects, including depression, substance, abuse, and even frequent infections.   So here are – some techniques, often used to reduce stress Exercise, Exercise, helps you release stress by taking away the tension in some of your muscles.   Walking is a great way to get started.   Take advantage of the Student Recreation Center, where you can find cardio equipment weights, and even a rock-climbing wall. They also offer fitness classes such as yoga, Zumba, kickboxing and more Giving you tons of options that may fit your schedule.   Writing Using writing.   As an emotional outlet.   Can help express what may be bothering you and allow you to reflect and possibly share with someone you trust, making it easier to deal with your stress.     Do Something You Enjoy If you’re feeling stressed, take some time off to relax your mind and body Watch.   Your favorite TV show listen to music, go for a walk, do anything you want.   Try daily meditation breaks to release a small amount of stress.   The point is to relax.   You can also find some campus resources that can help.   You manage your stress like the University Counseling Center. They offer consultations in Spanish or English and it’s always confidential.   They also provide workshops on how to deal with stress.   All their services are free for students enrolled at UTEP.   Everyone experiences levels of stress, however, when you realize it you can take charge.   Take your mind off things and relax plan and organize your time wisely Manage your stress before it manages you. As found on YouTube 15 Modules Of Intimate Video Training With Dr. Joe Vitale – You’re getting simple and proven steps to unlock the Awakened Millionaire Mindset: giving you a path to MORE money, … download-2k

Causes of stress and poor wellbeing among paramedic students in Saudi Arabia and the … | RTCL.TV

  This study investigated the effects of paramedicine training on student wellbeing, comparing the experiences of paramedicine students from the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study found that four main themes emerged from the data exposure to potentially traumatic events, relationships and communication programs, atmosphere, and career.   The study also found that the contributors to stress were similar in both countries, suggesting that better preparation and supportive relationships can help reduce the negative impacts of potential trauma and improve student well-being.   Additionally, universities can address both these factors and create a positive learning environment for paramedicine students.   This article was authored by Adnan Alzahrani Chris Keyworth, Caitlin, Wilson, and others. As found on YouTube 15 Modules Of Intimate Video Training With Dr. Joe Vitale – You’re getting simple and proven steps to unlock the Awakened Millionaire Mindset: giving you a path to MORE money, … download-2k

How to Reduce Stress in 59 Seconds or Less

  Narrator, Hey Psych2Goers, Let’s take a second to recenter, Find somewhere comfortable and shake off all of that old energy And let’s prepare for our exercise. Box.   Breathing is a four-part exercise, you inhale for a count of four and then you hold for a count of four and then you exhale for a count of four and then you hold again for a count of four.   So let’s begin Inhale.   1.   2.   3.   4 Hold 2, 3, 4, Now exhale, 2, 3, 4 And hold 2 3 4 Excellent.   We can try something new next time and I’ll see you then, please note you can adapt this count to whatever feels most comfortable to you.   Bye. As found on YouTube 15 Modules Of Intimate Video Training With Dr. Joe Vitale – You’re getting simple and proven steps to unlock the Awakened Millionaire Mindset: giving you a path to MORE money, … download-2k

10 Signs of Narcissistic Victim Syndrome

  (soft instrumental music) – [Amanda] Hey Psych2Go family, and welcome back. If you’re new to this channel and by the end of the video you enjoy our content, do consider subscribing and joining the Psych2Go fam. Now, let’s begin. Narcissistic victim syndrome is a term that collectively describes specific and often severe side effects of narcissistic abuse. Many experts acknowledge narcissistic abuse can have a serious long-lasting impact on emotional health, although it is not recognized as a mental health condition. As a result of chronic abuse, victims may struggle with symptoms of PTSD or complex PTSD. If they had additional trauma such as being abused by narcissistic parents. (beeping) (upbeat music) With that in mind, here are 10 signs that might suggest you have narcissistic victim syndrome. Number one, you felt like you had a perfect relationship with that person in the beginning.   When you’re in a romantic relationship, this type of abuse usually begins slowly and it creeps up on you after you’ve fallen hard and are in love with your partner. In the early stages of the relationship, this is when the love bombing usually occurs. They may shower you with gifts and affection and it can feel very intense. Then slowly, manipulative tactics start to invade the relationship and will replace the love bombing. In the case of narcissistic parents, they might also offer love, adoration, praise, and financial support, until you do something to displease them and lose their favor. They use tactics such as gaslighting and silent treatment which can leave you questioning your sanity. And this is something that sticks with you even after you’ve cut ties with that person. Number two, you feel like you’re walking on eggshells. A common symptom of trauma is avoiding anything that might make you relive that particular trauma. Whether it be people, places, or activities that pose a threat to you, you may feel like you’re constantly worrying and being careful about what you say or do around people because that is how you used to behave when you were around your abuser.   You may present as anxious and introverted, especially when in the presence of other people, though you’re simply acting out of extreme fear. Number three, you may have experienced smear campaigns once the relationship ended. When breakups happen, it’s common for people to take sides. This is no different when it comes to a narcissistic abuser. They will twist your words and tell their version of the story to others to try and get them to feel sorry for them. They can often drum up support from your loved ones by insisting that they only have the best interest at heart. Then when you try to talk about the abuse that happened, your loved ones might side with the abuser over you. This can drop barriers between you and the people in your support network and leave you feeling isolated. Number four, you feel isolated and vulnerable.   When no one will listen to you or your concerns, this can leave you feeling very much alone. When you feel alone, you’re vulnerable to further manipulation from your abuser. They may pull you back in with fake apologies, a hand of kindness, or by brushing their past abuse under the rock. This tactic, which is called hovering, is the perfect time to pounce when you’re lacking in support since you are more likely to doubt your perceptions of the abuse when you can’t talk to anyone about it.   Number five, you’ve developed a pervasive sense of mistrust. Are you hypervigilant? Do you worry and get anxious over other people’s intentions? The gaslighting techniques used by the narcissistic abuser may have contributed to how you view the world. And you may find that you have a hard time trusting anyone, including yourself. Number six, you may engage in self-sabotaging and self-destructive behavior. Victims often find themselves ruminating over the abuse. This can enhance the frequency of negative self-talk and the tendency towards self-sabotage. Malignant narcissists will try and program you, conditioning you for self-destruction. This could potentially lead you to engage in risky behaviors such as self-harm or even suicidal ideation. You might’ve developed a knack for punishing yourself because of the toxic shame you carry, put there by the hypercriticism and verbal abuse of your abuser. If you feel like you’re lacking any motivation to pursue your dreams and goals, then this could be a result of narcissistic abuse. Number seven, you may experience unexplained physical symptoms.   Narcissistic abuse can trigger anxious and nervous feelings that can trigger physical symptoms. The stress of chronic abuse may send your stress levels into overdrive. As a result, your immune system may take a severe hit leaving you vulnerable to physical ailments and disease. You may notice symptoms such as appetite changes, nausea, stomach pain, muscle aches and pains, insomnia, and fatigue. Number eight, you may have issues setting boundaries. The experience of narcissistic abuse can often leave you with little respect for boundaries. This may be because when you tried to set boundaries in the past, you may have been met with challenges from the abuser who gave you the silent treatment until you did what they wanted. Once you end the relationship or gain distance from a narcissistic parent, you promise yourself that you won’t answer their calls or physically see them at all.   However, even if you’ve tried to cut ties, your abuser is confident that they will eventually wear you down because you’ve set aside your boundaries with them so many times before. If you’ve experienced narcissistic abuse, you might also have trouble setting healthy boundaries in your relationships with others in the future. Nine, you may be questioning your own identity. When facing abuse, many people adjust their self-identity to accommodate an abusive partner. You may have stopped doing things you enjoy or spending time with friends and family to better appease your abuser. These changes can often lead to a loss of identity during and after the abuse. It’s not uncommon for victims of narcissistic abuse to experience dissociation and attachment from the physical world.   Dr. van der Kolk writes in his book titled, “The Body Keeps The Score” that dissociation is the essence of trauma. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and physical sensations take on a life of their own. Oof! Number 10, you may find it hard to make decisions. When there has been a negative pattern of devaluation and criticism in your life, you might have very little self-esteem and confidence in yourself. Narcissistic abusers can make statements that imply that you are unable to make good decisions.   Abusive partners may have called you stupid, or ignorant, or they might’ve insulted you with a false and affectionate tone. They can manipulate you into believing you imagine parts of reality making it seem less important than it is. This type of controlling and deceitfulness can affect the way you make future decisions. So, did you relate to any of the signs? Let us know in the comments below. I wanted to take a second to say that I… Um, sorry. Hi, it’s Amanda, the voiceover voice. I’m reading the script for the first time and I related to it.   So I wanted to add a point that, in taking the time to learn about narcissistic victim syndrome, you’re empowering yourself. Once you know you can grow. Acknowledging the effects of being in a narcissistic relationship is the first step to healing from one. As we close out, we want to say that not all abuse is linked to narcissism, and not all people with a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder will engage in abusive behavior. However, if you feel you might be a victim of this type of abuse, we encourage you to reach out for help. Talk to someone you can trust, like a good friend, a family member, or a therapist. It’s not easy to leave an abusive relationship, but with the right support, you can move on with your life and start to heal from your past hurts. Like and share this video if it helped you and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don’t forget to hit the Subscribe button for more Psych2Go videos, and thank you for watching. We’ll see you in the next one. As found on YouTube 15 Modules Of Intimate Video Training With Dr. Joe Vitale – You’re getting simple and proven steps to unlock the Awakened Millionaire Mindset: giving you a path to MORE money, … download-2k