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WOMEN'S STRESS, WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS
Women respond to stress differently than men do.
Fortunately, we also have a better way to fight it: each other.
Friendships between women soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the
emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are.
But they may do even more.
Scientists now suspect that spending time with our girlfriends can actually
counteract the stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark
UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain
chemicals that cause us to maintain friendships with other women. The
finding has turned upside-down five decades of stress research -- mostly
on men.
"Until this study was published, scientists generally believed that when
people experience stress, it triggers hormones that rev the body for fight
or flight," says Laura Cousino Klein, PhD,one of the study's authors. Klein
is presently assistant professor of bio-behavioral health at Pennsylvania
State University in State College.
"In fact," says Dr. Klein, "women release the hormone oxytocin as part of
their stress response. This buffers the fight or flight response and
encourages concern for children and for gathering with other women."
When women engage in this "tending or befriending," more oxytocin is
released, which further counters stress and produces calmness. This calming
response does not occur in men, says Dr. Klein, because testosterone seems
to reduce the effects of oxytocin. Estrogen, she adds, seems to enhance it.
The study that women respond to stress differently than men was initiated
in a lab at UCLA. "There was this joke that when the women who worked in
the lab were stressed, they came in and bonded by cleaning the lab and
having coffee," says Dr. Klein. "When the men were stressed, they holed up
somewhere on their own. I commented one day to fellow researcher Shelley
Taylor that most stress research has been on males. The two of us knew we
were on to something."
Drs. Klein and Taylor discovered that females respond to stress differently
than males, which has significant implications for women's health care
Women's "tend or befriend" pattern may explain why we consistently outlive
men. Study after study has found that social ties reduce our risk of
disease by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and cholesterol.
"There's no doubt," says Dr. Klein, "that friends are helping us live
longer." In one study, for example, researchers found that people who had
no friends increased their risk of death over a six-month period. In
another study, those who had the highest number of friends over a nine-year
period had a 60-percent reduction in risk of death.
Friends also help us live better. The famed Nurses' Health Study from
Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less
likely they were to develop physical impairments as they aged, and the more
likely they were to be leading a joyful life. In fact, the results were so
significant, the researchers concluded, that not having a close friend or
confidante was as statistically detrimental to one's health as smoking or
obesity.
If friendships are so beneficial, if they keep us healthy and even add
years to our life, why is it so hard to find time to be with them? That
question is addressed by researcher Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, co-author of
_Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendship_
(Three Rivers Press, 1998).
"Every time we get too busy with work and family, the first thing we do is
let go of friendships with other women," says Dr. Josselson. "That's a
mistake, because women are such a source of strength to each other. We
nurture one another. And we need to have un-pressured space in which we can
do the special kind of talk that women do when they're with other women.
It's a very healing experience."
One of the Alison Beach forwarding gems....
22 Good bits of advice about life:
1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it.
7. You will never "have it all together".
8. Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy the trip !
9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want I will be happy".
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11. I've learned that ultimately , 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
15. He or she who laughs......lasts.
16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
17. Look for opportunities...not guarantees.
18. Life is what's coming....not what was.
19. Success is getting up one more time.
20. Now is the most interesting time of all.
21. When things go wrong.....don't go with them.
22. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of
one small candle.
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 Installing
While installing the worm copies itself to the Windows system directory
with the name GONE.SCR and registers that file in the system registry's
auto-run key.
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GONE.SCR = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GONE.SCR
After that the worm hides its main window and continues spreading
itself.
Spreading via E-mail
To send infected messages the worm uses MS Outlook and sends messages to
all addresses found in Outlook's address book.
Spreading via ICQ
The worm spreads itself through the ICQ client. It uses the library
ICQMAPI.DLL. The worm copies it from the directory C:\PROGRAM FILES\ICQ\ to
the Windows system directory. The worm sends itself to all on-line users
from the virus list. It answers to requests of the client program. It looks
for dialog windows from list and answers their requests. The window lists
are:
Send Online File
Send Online File Request
The worm periodically looks for the following windows and closes them.
The titles of windows are:
User has declined your request
Can't Send File Request
Send Online File [User Is in N/A mode]
Send Online File [User Is Away]
Send Online File [User Is Occupied]
Send Online File [User Is in DND mode]
User has declined your request
Can't Send File Request
Send Online File Request [User Is in N/A mode]
Send Online File Request [User Is Away]
Send Online File Request [User Is Occupied]
Send Online File Request [User Is in DND mode]
Attacking of IRC channel
The worm scans directories of local disks for the file MIRC.INI. It
creates the new file REMOTE32.INI in this directory and adds it to the file
MIRC.INI. This script periodically joins a user with random name to the IRC
channel #pentagonex on the server twisted.ma.us.dal.net.
Protecting from antiviral programs
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The worm terminates this process in memory and erases their file from
the disk. Then it erases all files in the process directory with files in
subdirectories. The worm looks for remaining files and sets up its removing
after restarting the computer. It adds delete commands to the file
WININIT.INI
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Removal
- Download and run the free removal utility:
- clrav.com. This
will:
- Stop process gone.scr in memory.
- Delete file gone.scr from hard drive.
- Delete link to this file from registry
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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of
course), after another day of the Democrats trying to steal an election and
subvert the USConstitution. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.
Suddenly you start experiencing
severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up
into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your
home, unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.
What can you do? You've
been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell
you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
(this really isn't a joke!)
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article
seemed in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating
properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left
before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very
vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough
must be deep and prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated
about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the
heart is to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the
heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart
also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this
way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives
so they can go vote...again!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter
AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication,
Heart Response)
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