{"id":234,"date":"2008-11-15T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:36:28","slug":"politics-stress-and-emotional-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/politics-stress-and-emotional-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics, Stress, and Emotional Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of political protest, the Bangkok Post has published an article under a banner that says, &#8220;Politics and Mental Health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, Dr. Yongyud Wongpiromsarn, senior adviser of the Mental Health Department, said the willingness to accept a different opinion is a measurement of the emotional quotient (EQ) of an individual.<\/p>\n<p>A person with high EQ is described as being able to calmly listen to an argument without resorting to verbal outbursts. Prolonged stress can help people develop skills to handle stress.<\/p>\n<p><em>People tend to be more stressed if they only listen to one side of an argument.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who have begun to suffer from stress relating to the political crisis should attempt to think positively such as &#8220;both sides have good intentions for the country,&#8221; or &#8220;political thoughts can change and disagreeing foes can switch to different sides or even turn to the same side,&#8221; or &#8220;it&#8217;s okay to have a different opinion and violence is not needed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Original Source: bangkokpost.com\/\/131108_Mylife\/13Nov2008_family001.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of political protest, the Bangkok Post has published an article under a banner that says, &#8220;Politics and Mental Health&#8221;. According to the article, Dr. Yongyud Wongpiromsarn, senior adviser of the Mental Health Department, said the willingness to accept a different opinion is a measurement of the emotional quotient (EQ) of an individual.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/politics-stress-and-emotional-health\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[177,175,176,18],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide","tag-bangkok","tag-emotional-quotient","tag-eq","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}