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today I'm going to talk

with you about stress anxiety depression

and how it affects your cardiac health

you may be wondering why we should have

had to behavior health for cardiac

health what we know is that

rehabilitation works

however stress anxiety and depression

can interview with completing your rehab

program well we also know is that

behavioral health can also have a

positive effect on my stone change so

attending to your behavior how can

improve your ability to manage your

stress improve your sleep and it can

also help with your exercise and dietary

changes it can help with your exercise

and dietary goals stress and anxiety and

depression are very common after a

cardiac event but a lot of people don't

know this about 70 80 % of patients who

experience depression or anxiety and

about 20 to 25% of these patients also

experience persistent or long-term

anxiety or depression that's a lot of

people and what we know is that stress

anxiety depression is related to poor

cardiac health it can lead to a greater

severity of heart disease it leads to a

greater chance of having a cardiac event

such as a heart attack it can reach

greater severity of a heart attack

versus just having a mild heart attack

your risk of death is 2 times higher if

you're depressed versus if you're not

depressed stress and anxiety and

depression can also be negative and

disabling particularly if it triggers

negative coping by hindering your

ability to focus on self-care activities

such as talking with other people it

affects their ability to learn or act on

lifestyle changes and it might create

difficulties with following through with

recommendations for staying on

medications doing activity or exercise

or any dietary changes the outcome of

that it is you don't end up following

through with your cardiac rehab program

and it may take longer to return to work

if you end up returning to work at all

so what

is the difference between stress and

anxiety the very they use

interchangeable often stress is very

similar to anxiety I like to think of

stress as being a milder form in having

of anxiety anxiety is much more intense

and it tends to be disabling what is

anxiety and how do we recognize it when

anxiety is defined by a set of symptoms

and they these include excessive

worrying feeling Restless experiencing a

lot of muscle tension or difficulties

relaxing it can lead to sleep problems

for example sleeping too much or not

sleeping enough and when you're not

sleeping it usually makes all your

symptoms even worse anxiety can lead to

difficulties concentrating or memory

problems or even being able to learn

information it can make you feel fearful

it can lead to avoiding or withdrawing

from from your family from your friends

or activities that usually would do

anxiety can also lead to sometimes panic

attacks if severe enough it can affect

your functioning ability to perform

daily activities how about depression

what is depression how do you recognize

it

but depression is also characterized by

a number of symptoms most notably

depressed mood or sadness oftentimes

people who are depressed also few highly

anxious they lose interest in engaging a

pleasant or pleasurable activities they

can experience and sleep problems either

over sleeping or not sleeping enough

there's often a change in appetite or

weight sometimes you feel like you want

to eat all the time other times you have

no appetite at all it can lead to

decreased energy fatigue or motivation

to do anything

you may feel worthless or guilty and

blame yourself for any negative events

that happen depression also can lead to

difficulties with concentration it can

also make if you're hopeless and

helpless that you may feel like you're

hopeless to change your situation and 

when it's more severe it can lead to

thoughts of self-harm and it can also

affect your

on a daily basis there are treatments

for depression and anxiety one of the

most common treatments is obtaining

education about depression anxiety and

stress so for example learning that

anxiety and stress is normal and it's

very common and it's also very positive

and protective so stress and anxiety can

be protective and positive when it

triggers positive coping and what we

mean by that is that it motivates you to

take your situation seriously but not so

seriously that it's immobilizing or that

you're mobilized by anxiety it helps you

to seek out support for example it

motivates you to talk with your friends

your spouse or your co-workers it

motivates you to seek care from your

healthcare provider and overall it helps

you to function better because it

motivates you to do the things that we

know helps you to take care of yourself

however it's also important to know that

too much stress or too much anxiety can

be negative especially if you tend to

cope with stress negatively and what we

mean by that is that you might

experience intense fear of having

another heart attack if you've already

had a heart attack or if you were to

pass at the time of that heart attack

you may fear becoming depressed again

and that fear can be really immobilizing

you might anticipate that your heart

problems or your cardiac problems will

last a long time or my last forever you

might experience intense anxiety with if

you've had it and implanted cardiac

device and it may you may feel anxious

that it's not going to work as its

intended or that there might be problems

related to it and you may also have

beliefs that your heart disease is

incurable untreatable and so that can

lead you to feel hopeless about your

situation

other treatments to successfully treat

depression anxiety include attending to

stress management what we mean by stress

management is for example developing a

positive or healthy attitude for example

also

seeing the lighter side of life or

finding humor in daily events learning

to say no or studying healthier

boundaries so that you don't experience

excessive stress learning to manage your

time better again to avoid experiencing

excessive stress what we also know is

that there's some long-term benefits of

exercise and healthy beauty including

that de-stress management another tool

for stress management is getting plenty

of sleep and rest finding time for your

hobbies and interests and actually

schedule in time for your hobbies and

interests and all these stress

management tools you can be done

individually and they can be done at

home you don't necessarily need to see a

professional you don't necessarily need

to to go into a professionals office to

do a lot of these strategies an

effective treatment for depression and

anxiety also includes relaxation

training a lot of times when people

experience a lot of depression or

anxiety or intense depression or anxiety

they experience a lot of tension it's

very difficult to relax and so engaging

in some relaxation training can be very

beneficial specifically you learn skills

to breathe properly to slow down your

breathing when you're feeling really

anxious - the relaxation skills to help

you slow down your heart rate and to do

some imagery exercises to again help you

to relax more we also can treat

depression anxiety by even increasing

your social support learning to talk

with your family members your co-workers

and your friends when you're feeling

really anxious and if you notice that

you're struggling to engage in social

support sometimes talking about what

seems to be getting in way of getting

social support can be really helpful one

of the most effective ways to treat

anxiety and depression is suicidal

therapy research has shown that for

moderate to severe anxiety psychotherapy

can be very effective as a treatment

either individually talking one-on-one

to

therapist or in a group setting well

psychotherapy you can examine some

barriers to lifestyle changes for

example what seems to be getting in the

way of stress management what seems to

be getting in the way of sleeping better

or engaging in exercise or healthy

eating habits in psychotherapy you can

also examine your thinking pattern are

there thinking patterns that are not

very healthy for example through

psychotherapy you can learn to be more

positive and view difficulties as

challenges that you can actually

overcome versus being overwhelmed by

them psychotherapy can also help with

finding more meaning and hope in

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