How can I reduce stress?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Listener Keith from Lincolnshire wants to know how to reduce stress as he is under extreme pressure as a firefighter. Not only does he have to cope with the stress of responding to emergency situations but he has to do it while wearing challenging breathing equipment.
We all experience times of stress, especially given the current situation, our chest starts to feel tight and our breathing becomes shallow. Claudia Hammond – presenter of BBC World Service programme Health Check – explains steps we can take to protect our mental health during this pandemic.
How should we alter our breathing to manage stress? Presenter Anand Jagatia speaks to breathing experts to find techniques to help listener Keith, and everyone else.
Presented by Anand Jagatia. Produced by Caroline Steel for BBC World Service.
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| 0:34.0 | So inside, good and very good life. |
| 0:37.0 | Sorry, thanks to the anonymous position that has changed |
| 0:40.0 | you're going to go through. |
| 0:41.0 | So you ready? |
| 0:42.0 | Okay, one, two, take those guys. You're listening to crowd science from the BBC World Service, the show that's |
| 0:48.6 | fueled by your burning curiosity. I'm Anan Jagatier and this is the sound of one of our |
| 0:54.2 | listeners Keith about to enter a building that's on fire. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay it's not really on fire, it's filled with fake smoke during a training exercise. |
| 1:07.0 | Keith is a firefighter for the Ministry of Defence here in the UK and he wrote to us with a question. |
| 1:15.6 | So my question is then how can we reduce stress? |
| 1:18.9 | As someone who rescues people from blazing infernos, Keith's job is more stressful than most. |
| 1:24.4 | The stress would start from the moment that the alarms went at the fire station, |
| 1:29.2 | so that's kind of a jolt of adrenaline. |
| 1:40.0 | You're already under a lot of psychological stress in terms of you've got a job to do. |
| 1:44.0 | Then obviously you've got the ride on the fire engine. When you get to the scene of the fire |
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