Taking a shower may reduce anxiety from stress-inducing events

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: Taking a shower may reduce anxiety from stress-inducing events | Boing Boing

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[gabe_oakes]

What if the stressful event is filming a shower scene?

[Malarkey]

I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair and send him on his way!

[anothernewbbaccount]

Taking a shower may reduce anxiety

I guess those researchers never took a shower in one of those horrors that is either ice-cold or red-hot irrespective of how infinitesimal the increments of moving the lever are.

[leicester]

[shichae]

@frauenfelder

“This basic, physical experience of separating residues from our body can trigger a more psychological form of separation, namely, separating the residual influence of past experiences from the present. If the past experiences were stressful, then psychologically separating them from your present would reduce your stress.”

Shower = Liquid Unicorn Chaser

[Mister44]

I thought that was booze?

[shichae]

@Mister44

thought that was booze?

Yeah, booze be liquid unicorn chaser as a MF too. ^____^

[jerwin]

Meryl Streep Gets a Silkwood Shower

[anothernewbbaccount]

I think that was decontaminating more than just stress-induced anxiety!

[Brainspore]

@Malarkey

I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair

Thanks to the Farrelly brothers I will never hear that song without picturing this scene.

[Jesse13927]

Of course, baths work well too.

[Malarkey]

OMG! I never made that connection!