Less Stress, More Simcha | Dr. Dan Jacobson on Anxiety, Yeshiva Pressure, and Avodat Hashem

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Stress is certainly extremely negative but uh what people don't necessarily know is that even physiologically there's all kinds of impact talking about hypertension talking about digestion irritable bowel syndrome muscle tightness headaches backaches all kinds of things that come from from carrying stress extendedly. What is important is to the extent that people share my experience of yeshiva being the or a formative part uh time in their life what we call interject it we carry life what we call interject it we carry it inside of us you know in our core values and perspectives and all that and so if we've developed associations of you know Torah with stress from yeshiva and that's still what comes up for us after work I'm going going to learn that has to be checked and uh and and rethought with OCD really needs to be a Rob involved who gives you clear guidelines because OCD kicks in very strongly when there's room for doubt and when it comes there's room for doubt and when it comes to cleaning for pesak it's like the ultimate shalom and welcome to Stark Tank. Start tank is a podcast about the challenges and opportunities of being a bentora in the workforce. This week we are joined by Dr. Dan Jacobson. He is a psychologist. He's also a musmak. He also has written extensively a co-author of a book called flipping out which

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1. 0:00Stress is certainly extremely negative but uh what people don't necessarily know is that even physiologically…
2. 5:08me. And it Eric Ericson talks about this period as the period of identity formation. It's…
3. 9:44pressure in the world you know um there's a psychiatrist Dr. Et Lav who has a…
4. 14:21let's I was it was an open-ended question and you gave a very interesting answer. I…
5. 18:57stuff. Uh so there's with most of these things again Dr. Palitz has one of his…
6. 24:04values and perspectives and all that. And so, if we've developed associations of, you know, Torah…
7. 28:43which I personally feel quite often? Yeah, look the first the first is to be clear…
8. 33:20haven't discussed but separate discuss session that it's important all the more important sometimes people like…
9. 37:56>> amazing I think you know It's a holiday also of questions. So some of the…
10. 43:02it talks about married men so I'm you know my very bot understanding is that I'm…

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