TMS principles go mainstream at #1 US health insure

We've all encountered an increasing amount of media coverage in the last several years about the effects of stress and how to reduce it, blah blah blah. This is the first time I've come across a definitive distillation of all of our TMS principles in one fairly short, very readable article, published by the top rated health insurance group in the US, Kaiser Permanente. I feel like that's significant.

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/healtharticle.7-ways-stress-affects-body (How stress affects your body: 8 common symptoms | Kaiser Permanente)

The article was highlighted in a monthly newsletter to members, and although our experienced community won't find anything new here, what excites me is the fact that the article definitively associates multiple different types of physical symptoms with stress, including the less-straightforward ones, and it clearly identifies the negative long-term damage caused by untreated stress. The latter issue is usually not directly addressed enough IMHO (speaking as the local poster child for stress-induced RA).

To top it off, journaling is included in the list of recommendations.

I would love to learn about other examples of mainstream/traditional consumer health organizations offering this level of comprehensive information to their members. It gives me hope that a younger generation of health care professionals are going to offer a different focus of care.

 

Nice catch, @Ellen - indeed they were! https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html (About the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study |Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDC)