Sawayaka Health Planfor 35-years old people

About teeth and mouth
Q. I got the impression that it was difficult todetermine which one was applicable from thesymptoms whether gingival inflammation or mildperiodontal disease.
Is it difficult to make a definite decision
without having an X-ray photograph taken at adental clinic?

A. It is difficult to judge whether it is gingival inflammation ormild periodontal disease based on subjective symptoms alone. As
mentioned in the lecture, though X-ray is important for
diagnosing periodontal disease, it is recommended that you havea dentist make a judgment based on his/her comprehensive
consideration based on patient's symptoms, oral examination by
the dentist, etc.
It's good for you to take care of your own oral state on daily
basis and if you have something concerned about, it isrecommended that you consult a dentist.
Regardless of whatever result, regular visits to your dental
clinic will lead to early detection and treatment of tooth decay
and periodontal disease.
We hope that you will continue to have concern about your oralhealth.

About mental health
Q. I was interested in the fact that theintensity of stress varies depending on how
the stressor is perceived.
I would like to ask you about that point indetail.

A.

Thank you for your question.
Let’s organize this question by using the fact that "I made asmall mistake and that I was warned by my boss" as a stressor.
(Continued on the next page)Mr./Ms. A, who took this fact as "I was warned by my boss because
my boss hated me,“ and got frustrated (stress reaction) as if
his/her boss showed his hostility.
Mr./Ms. B, who took the same fact as "I was warned because I
couldn’t do that well," and became sad (stress reaction) losing
confidence in himself/herself.
As the above cases showed, the reason why stress responses
appeared differently between Mr./Ms. A and Mr./Ms. B even to thesame fact is in their ways of perceiving the fact, that is, "thehabits of perceiving the fact (see the table below)".
For example, Mr./Ms. A was frustrated because he/she had a habitof “preconceiving" that his boss hated him/her, but if he/she
could suppress this “preconception", he/she might not be
frustrated. In the meanwhile, though Mr./Ms. B also became saddue to his/her habit of "self-reference", if he/she could
suppress this "self-reference", he/she might not lose his/her
confidence on himself/herself and might not become sad.
Based on the above-mentioned, the important thing to spend time
feeling less stress is to objectively recognizing your own habitof perceiving the fact. On top of that, the point is to try to be
conscious of the different way of perceiving. However, it is not
something you can do right away, so try to do it little by little
at an reasonable pace.
The habit ofperceiving

Definition

ExamplePreconceptionFocusing only on what you are aware of,you assume that your thoughts must be
correct even though the reason to think sois insufficient.

When you hear your name from a conversation
between your boss and your senior, you
conclude, without a solid basis, that you
must have made a mistake again.

Black andwhite thinking

Being unbearable to putting yourself in an
ambiguous state, you have a extreme ideaof dividing everything into “black orwhite”, "good or bad".

When you forgot to do a small task requested
by your subordinates, you think “I can’t
get job done well as I thought".

Should-bethinking

Putting pressure on yourself more thannecessary, you think in such a way as “Ishould do like this" or “I must do XX",and limit your actions and behaviors.

Though you made preparation as much as
possible, when the job negotiations didn’t
produce a result, you continue to regret bysaying "I should have prepared better ...".

Self-reference

When something bad happens, whatever it is,you blame yourself and always think like“it’s my fault”.

When a big trouble occurred in the job thatyour team was in charge of, you feel thatyou are responsible and deeply depressedsaying, "The trouble occurred because I wasthere".

Reading too
much into it

One-sidedly guessing the feelings of theother person, you jumps to the conclusionthat “he/she surely are thinking so".

While talking with a colleague, you saw thathe showed a stiff look, and you, withoutfinding out what happened to him, makeconclusion "I should have said something
wrong to him".

Too muchanticipation

Making pessimistic predictions by yourself.
By doing so and limiting your own
activities, you tend to fail as expected,
which makes it easy for you to fall invicious cycle that makes you believe inpessimistic predictions more and more.

When you became a trainer for junior staffs,
you feel a strong sense of being bad attraining even before start training andconceiving "I'm sure I can’t train themwell," you become more nervous and fail totrain them as you intended.