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第 80 课:The Stress Effect 你有抑郁症吗-1

RHONDA ROWLAND, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT 罗纳·罗兰德,CNN医药记者
Heavy traffic, job pressure, working couples with kids, cell phones, e- mails, pagers and Palm Pilots. Do you wonder what all that stress is doing to you? 拥堵的交通、工作的压力、家有孩子的上班族夫妇、手机、电子邮件、呼机和掌中宝。你可曾想过这些压力会给你造成什么影响吗?

DR. JEFFREY KELSEY, PSYCHIATRIST 杰弗里·凯尔塞医生,精神病学家
I have to take this real quick. 我得赶快处理这件事。

ROWLAND 罗兰德
OK. 好的。

KELSEY 凯尔塞
I have five more minutes of being on call today. 因为今天我还有5分钟就下班了。

ROWLAND 罗兰德
Psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffery Kelsey, sees it every day in his practice. Stress can set the stage for depression. 杰弗里·凯尔塞医生是一位精神病学家,这就是他每天都会面对的情况。压力能够导致抑郁。

KELSEY 凯尔塞
Well, we think that the vulnerability of getting depression is about a third from genetics, what we inherit, and is about two thirds from those experiences that we have. 好的,我们认为忧郁症三分之一来自遗传,是我们继承下来的,另外三分之二是由我们的经历引发的。

ROWLAND 罗兰德
Stress you can't control appears to do the most harm, accidents, death, job loss, the events of 9/11, even the turbulence of Wall Street. With Wall Street, a lot of pressure now, especially for CEOs' performance and to deliver. What kind of impact does that have? 那些无法控制的因素带来的压力危害性最大,如意外事故、死亡、失业、"911"事件,甚至华尔街的动荡。现在,华尔街的人们承受着许多压力,尤其是CEO的表现和决策。这些压力会产生什么影响呢?

KELSEY 凯尔塞
There are clearly going to be some people for whom that stress is going to hit the threshold. well, yes, they are going get an episode of depression. 很明显,他们中的一些人开始受到压力的影响。是的,他们将患上阶段性抑郁症。