Aditi Nerurkar

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TED Talks Daily · Feeling stressed? The answer isn’t to “just relax” | Aditi Nerurkar · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

Maybe it's rooting for your favorite sports team or planning your next vacation.

These sorts of events move your life forward.

And the goal is not a life with zero stress.

It is quite literally biologically impossible to do that.

It's to live a life with healthy, manageable stress that can serve you rather than harm you.

You know, stress is truly the multi-hyphenate performer.

There are people who have no mental health manifestations of stress and only physical health manifestations of stress.

And stress can really impact everything all the way from your head down to your toes.

It can, you know, some common manifestations, physical manifestations of stress can include worsening headaches, neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, abdominal pain, or discomfort, dizziness, nausea, weakness, fatigue, and then mental health manifestations, insomnia, anxiety, depression, or irritability.

When you have emotional reactivity and you're quick to anger, all of these symptoms could be signs of unhealthy, maladaptive stress.

But like me, the first thing you want to do is see your doctor, make sure that there isn't a underlying medical condition that is causing these symptoms.

And then once you are given the diagnosis of stress, then you can start using some of the strategies that we're going to talk about today.

It's important to note that stress is actually in medical terms, a diagnosis of exclusion.

So just like I shared my own personal story of my doctor doing the full workup in that way, your doctor will also do that full workup.

And Whitney, I want to share a really interesting, quite startling statistic with you.

In the U.S., 60 to 80 percent.

All visits of all primary care doctors visits have a stress related component.

And yet only 3% of doctors counsel for stress.

So stress is truly the elephant in the exam room.

And so a lot of our conversation today will be unpacking a lot of that, you know, because 60 to 80% of patients have an underlying stressor that is causing them to come to the doctor and they get the clean bill of health like I did.

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