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artin Rossman, M.D.'s, new
book The Worry Solution
(Cropwn Archetype Books)
is dedicated to his grandparents. "They
had a lot to worry about," the dedica-
tion reads, "and they handled it with
courage and grace."
Take the example of Rossman's pater-
nal grandmother, Jesse: Three months
after she was married, at the age of
17, her husband died during a typhus
epidemic. Not long after, there was a
food shortage, followed by a wave of
pogroms in Russia. Jesse grabbed her
Author Dr. Martin Rossman
baby son (Rossman's father), her four
younger siblings and fled to America.
community. Education in particular,
At one of the border crossings, the
Rossman says, has served as a coping
baby started crying, just when every-
mechanism. "Knowledge and critical
one needed to be quiet. The smuggler
thinking are forms of power," he says.
commanded Jesse to either silence or
"Where there is real danger, you better
smother the baby.
be sharp and street smart. You better be
"A lot of the Jewish people in this
paying attention."
country, especially in Detroit where I
As a tiny minority group in a
grew up, were from the same heritage
sometimes-hostile world, Jews have
and had similar stories',' Rossman says.
always known that the odds are stacked
"A 17-year-old in this country today,
against them. So Jewish culture teaches
especially in the middle class, fortu-
to always be at the ready. "The
nately doesn't have to deal
Jewish mother and father will
with things like
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the family and community.
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worry:' according to wheth-
the only people to have adapted
er the worry is a problem-
this way, it is likely, Rossman says, that
solving mechanism or simply a ham-
millennia of persecution has height-
ster wheel of obsessive thoughts.
ened the importance of these values in
"If you get stuck in bad worry,'
the Jewish community.
Rossman says, "you can just collapse
But what happens when a people
in the face of stress. But very few of
wired for persecution suddenly finds
the landsleit — people from the old
itself in the land of the free?
country — did that. They didn't have
"The brain is kind of like a scan-
the luxury to indulge in unproductive
ner; it's a problem-solver by its nature,'
worry. They had real dangers and hard- Rossman says. "In our modern media
ships to deal with, so they had to find
culture, there are plenty of things to
creative ways of solving dilemmas."
worry about — murder, theft, pollu-
It is probably in response to these
tion, recession. The constant barrage of
repeated ordeals, Rossman believes,
frightening stimuli activate the brain
that over the millennia Jews came to
place high value on education, faith and
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