It seems common practice. After a long day at work, sometimes you just want to turn on the TV or play a video game to relax, decompress. This is supposed to make you feel better. But a recent study found that people who had high stress levels after work and engaged in television viewing or video ...
Date Posted: July 29, 2014
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
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The best way to reduce stress is, of course, to identify the source and get rid of it. If only this were possible. You can try to avoid people who stress you out, say 'no' to things you know will cause you stress, and generally do less stuff. ...
Jul 23
Categories: Anxiety, Stress Management
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Mindfulness meditation has become an increasingly popular way for people to improve their mental and physical health, yet most research supporting its benefits has focused on lengthy, weeks-long training programs.
New research from Carnegie Mellon ...
Jul 8
Categories: Mindfulness Meditation, Stress Management
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For children, stress can go a long way. A little bit provides a platform for learning, adapting and coping. But a lot of it - chronic, toxic stress like poverty, neglect and physical abuse - can have lasting negative impacts.
Jul 2
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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Psychological stress is harmful to sperm and semen quality, affecting its concentration, appearance, and ability to fertilize an egg, according to a study led by researchers Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Rutgers School of ...
Jun 3
Categories: Stress Management
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Seeing another person under stress - even when you're not involved in the situation - is enough to activate the stress hormone cortisol in your body as well, according to a new study.
May 22
Categories: Stress Management
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It seems like a no-brainer that stress may make us more likely to succumb to viruses and other infections, but that’s a tough connection to make scientifically.
For starters, it would not be ethical to test the idea by putting people under ...
May 19
Categories: Stress Management
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Showing students how to cope with test anxiety might also help them to handle their built-up angst and fretfulness about other issues. The results of a new study by Carl Weems of the University of New Orleans show that anxiety intervention programs ...
May 12
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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An omnibus survey of 1,200 people across the UK has shown that a third of people struggle to cope at work because of depression, stress or burn out, with 83 per cent of those affected experiencing isolation or loneliness as a result. Only half of ...
May 9
Categories: Stress Management, Workplace Issues
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Scientists have shown that anger, anxiety, and depression not only affect the functioning of the heart, but also increase the risk for heart disease.
Stroke and heart attacks are the end products of progressive damage to blood vessels supplying the ...
May 7
Categories: Stress Management
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Did you know that all the stress you experience is self-created? That's because the stressful thoughts come from your own mind, and nobody else's.
They're your thoughts. as such, you decide what effect they have on your mind state. Either you let ...
Apr 30
Categories: Meditation, Stress Management
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If you start feeling better as spring begins pushing up its tender shoots, you might be living proof of a trend discovered in data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin: The more green space in the neighborhood, the happier people reported ...
Apr 16
Categories: Stress Management
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Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has revealed. Telomeres, repetitive DNA sequences that protect the ends of chromosomes from fraying over time, are shorter in ...
Apr 14
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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This week, a research team led by Associate Professor Grigori Enikolopov of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports online in the journal PlOS One the results of experiments designed to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, ...
Mar 31
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Anxiety, Child Development, Stress ...
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Coroners in London are preparing to investigate two apparent suicides as unexpected deaths by finance workers around the world have raised concerns about mental health and stress levels in the industry.
The inquest into the death of William ...
Mar 31
Categories: Stress Management, Suicide Prevention
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SINGAPORE - About one in 15 Singaporeans suffers from stress-related disorders such as depression at some point in his or her life. Mental health experts said one contributing factor could be Singapore's highly dense urban environment.
Mar 26
Categories: Stress Management
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